September 28, 2007

Harvard Wins Back 2 Scholars of African-American Studies; Big-Name Shuffle at Stanford's Hoover Institution; Santa Cruz Gets a New Chancellor; Firecrackers Prompt Chemist's Departure From Nebraska

By JOHN GRAVOIS, PAULA WASLEY, AND MATT PETRIE

RETURNING DUO: Henry Louis Gates Jr. was feeling triumphant one recent afternoon. "I'm the happiest man in the American academy," he said into his telephone with a chuckle, "'cause Bobo and Morgan are coming back home."

Mr. Gates, the former longtime head of Harvard University's department of African and African-American studies, was basking in the news that Lawrence D. Bobo and Marcyliena Morgan, two professors who left the department during Lawrence H. Summers's tenure as president