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April 1, 2008
President of Howard Hughes Medical Institute to Step Down
The president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, one of the largest private sources of funds for scientific research, announced today that he would step down in the spring of 2009 to return to teaching and research. Thomas R. Cech, who is also a faculty member at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will return full time to academe.
Mr. Cech oversaw the opening of Hughes’s first research campus, called Janelia Farm. “Continuity of leadership has been essential for Janelia Farm,” said Mr. Cech, in a prepared statement. “The ‘next great thing’ needs that same leadership commitment over an extended period of time.”
Mr. Cech shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1989. He was also a finalist for the open presidency at Harvard last year, but pulled out of contention. His research program at Colorado has continued during his tenure at Hughes. —Lila Guterman
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Given Dr. Cech’s achievements and faculty appointments, he probably has at least one doctorate. Thus, is it not proper to refer to him as “Dr.”
— Innocent By-Stander Apr 2, 10:48 AM #
Comment #1 had a typo, I assume: “not proper to refer to him as “Mr.”“ I agree. Perhaps they think Berkeley doesn’t have the stature to confer his doctorate? :-) I had asked The Chronicle, as the leading US higher education publication, to tell me the basis for their policy of ignoring what seems to me to be an important qualification in academia — but no reply. Their ‘no Dr. for doctorates’ policy adds weight to the anti-intellectual faction in America, who think opinions are more valid that well-studied knowledge.
But I don’t mean for this issue to detract from the news that one of our Nobel winners is returning to his research program. Good luck to Dr. Cech in his research!
— Cathie M. Currie Apr 2, 04:38 PM #
Unless Mr. Cech graduated or was awarded a Ph.D. from a German university, he cannot be addressed as doctor. ;)
— JM Apr 2, 08:43 PM #
You mean unless he is a medical doctor….the only real doctors.
Too many people in education, law etc have come to call themselves doctor that Mr. is better.
— james oakley Apr 2, 09:47 PM #