A leading candidate to become the next president of Harvard University pulled out unexpectedly today. In an interview published this morning by The Harvard Crimson, the university’s student newspaper, Thomas R. Cech said, “I already have a great job.” Mr. Cech, president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a recipient of a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1989, was thought to be the strongest candidate if Harvard’s presidential-search committee had decided it wanted to appoint a scientist. The university, which at one point was thought to be close to announcing its choice, may now turn to one of several internal candidates, led by Drew Gilpin Faust, dean of Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, or look elsewhere outside the precincts of Harvard Yard.
January 31, 2007
Leading Candidate for Harvard Presidency Withdraws From Search
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