November 9, 2001

Harvard Obtains Psychiatric Help in Provost's Slot; 2 Non-Lawyers Are Finalists for Emory U. Law Post

By JULIANNE BASINGER and KATHERINE S. MANGAN

MENTAL HELP: Harvard University has hired a psychiatrist to help its deans cooperate more.

Steven E. Hyman, director of the National Institute of Mental Health and a former professor of psychiatry at Harvard, will begin work as the university's provost next month. Harvard's new president, Lawrence H. Summers, announced the appointment last week, after a six-month search to replace the current provost, Harvey V. Fineberg, who was a finalist in the university's presidential search and

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