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Berkeley, and a former presFarther down Massachusetts
ident of the Harvard Board Avenue, at MIT, people aren't
of Overseers who backed c o mp l e t e ly ob l iv i o u s t o
the upgrade to school status, Harvard's expansion plans. It's
notes that the open structure just what MIT needs, one proseems to prevent the usual fessor commented, "a sharp
departmental squabbling kick in the butt." Not so, preover resources. "The question dicted another: after a few
now," she says, "is whether years Harvard will just settle
this will scale as they grow." for being a very good but very
As Narayanamurti contin- small school of applied sciences,
ues to expand the faculty, he like those found at a lot of other
says he has been contemplat- liberal arts colleges.
ing Graham's question. He
Nobody at Harvard seems
says that once the faculty has ready to concede just yet, and
about 100 full-time professors, in fact, the school is already
the school will reach a "critical thinking about its long-term
mass" to do significant things prospects. In January 2007,
while remaining a manage- the university created a comable group.
mittee to advise Harvard's
He also wants to extend president and governing bodthe school's interdisciplin- ies on how to boost collaborary culture to the classroom. ative efforts in science and
He asked his faculty to create engineering. The committee,
new technology courses for of which Narayanamurti is a
students who are interested member, should shape major
in, say, medicine or economics. expansion plans, including
At the same time, the engineer- the Allston Initiative.
ing school is reviewing its curHaving exhausted its land
riculum to incorporate more on the Cambridge side of the
hands-on learning.
Charles, Harvard now intends
Lynn Andrea Stein approves to build a second campus in
of the move. On sabbatical at the Allston neighborhood
Harvard, she is a professor of of Boston. At press time, the
computer science and engi- university was set to begin
neering at the Franklin W. construction on a $1 billion
Olin College of Engineering, science complex. It's been
in Needham, Mass., a new suggested that the engineerschool that has gained atten- ing school, in whole or in part,
tion for its innovative cur- could move to Allston one day,
r i c u l u m [ s e e " T h e Ol i n but no concrete plans have
Experiment," IEEE Spectrum, been made. It's clear, however,
May 2006]. She adds, though, that engineering and applied
that Harvard shouldn't sim- sciences will be a central part
ply try to replicate Olin's of the new development.
ideas. "A lot of the questions
As for Narayanamurti,
that motivated the creation what's next? In mid-February,
of Olin are also motivating he announced he would step
changes at Harvard, and down as dean and return to
Harvard will have its own teaching and research. And
unique response," she says.
this time he means it. But he
Narayanamurti sees the plans to stick around to see
ideal graduate from his the changes he helped initiate.
school as a renaissance engi- "It's going to be one of those
neer, one with a grounding in things that you don't notice
both technology and societal day to day," he says, "but
issues. "Those who want to be when you come back in five
pure technologists should go years or so, it will be a tremento MIT," he says. "At Harvard dous change." o
we want to create people who
know how things work but With additional reporting by
also how the world works."
William Sweet in Cambridge, Mass.
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