October 1, 2004

Stanford Woos Harvard Sociologist; Biomedical Administrator at MIT Will Return to Research; Harvard Dean Steps Down Without Explanation

By SHARON WALSH, DANIEL ENGBER and THOMAS BARTLETT

WESTWARD HO: Stanford University has been trying to snag the sociologist Lawrence D. Bobo from Harvard University for years. Finally, it got the answer it was looking for.

Mr. Bobo, 46, who was recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and his wife, Marcyliena Morgan, 45, will head for California at the beginning of the year. He will direct Stanford's Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and teach sociology. At Harvard he taught both sociology and