Bok announces membership of HUSEC

Body will provide governance for inter-School science and engineering

Harvard’s interim President Derek Bok Tuesday (April 3) announced the makeup of the University Committee on Science and Engineering (HUSEC), the newly established body that will provide planning and governance of the University’s efforts in interdepartmental and inter-School science and engineering.

This past December, when the Harvard Corporation established HUSEC, Bok invited Harvard’s entire science faculty to nominate for committee memberships scientists committed to collaborative work across traditional department and School boundaries.

“I am very impressed by the distinction of the founding members of this important new committee and pleased by the willingness of everyone we asked to accept the assignment,” Bok said. “I believe that we have succeeded in assembling a set of members fully capable of addressing the critical issues that will come before them.”

The University Committee on Science and Engineering is chaired by University Provost Steven E. Hyman, professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, and its membership includes:

• Barry Bloom, Dean of the Faculty of Public Health and Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health;

• Barbara Grosz, Dean of Science, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences;

• Jeremy R. Knowles, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Amory Houghton Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, as well as Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor;

• Joseph B. Martin, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Neurobiology and Clinical Neuroscience;

• Venkatesh "Venky" Narayanamurti, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences;

• Ed Benz, President, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Richard and Susan Smith Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School;

• H. Kent Bowen, Bruce Rauner Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School;

• Jeremy Bloxham, Division Dean for the Physical Sciences, Harvard College Professor, and Mallinckrodt Professor of Geophysics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Professor of Computational Science (SEAS);

• Joan Brugge, Head of the Department of Cell Biology and Professor of Cell Biology, HMS;

• Catherine Dulac, Higgins Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, FAS;

• Jeffrey Flier, Faculty Dean for Academic Programs, HMS/Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center, and George C. Reisman Professor of Medicine;

• Michael Greenberg, Professor of Neurology, Children’s Hospital Boston; Professor of Neurobiology, HMS;

• Eric N. Jacobsen, Sheldon Professor of Chemistry, FAS;

• Joseph Loscalzo, Head of the Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physics, HMS;

• Tim Mitchison, Deputy Chairman of the Department of Systems Biology and Hasib Sabbagh Professor of Systems Biology, HMS;

• Dan Podolsky, Chief Academic Officer, Partners Health Care; Chief of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine, HMS;

• Dyann Wirth, Chair of the Department of Infectious Disease and Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Infectious Disease, Harvard School of Public Health.