October 23, 1998

Help Wanted in Penn's Chemistry Department; Harvard Hopes to Improve Town-Gown Relations With New Hire

By ROBIN WILSON and JOYE MERCER

The University of Pennsylvania has a brand-new building for the chemistry and engineering departments, but can't attract enough professors to fill it.

Senior faculty members from Yale University and the Universities of Pittsburgh and Wisconsin at Madison have turned down job offers from Penn's chemistry department in the past year. In each case, the professor's home institution made an attractive

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