Kim announces changes to admin. structure
Adam Keller will step down as executive vice president for finance and administration on Dec. 1, College President Jim Yong Kim announced in an e-mail to students Thursday morning. Keller will not be replaced, Kim said, and senior vice president and strategic advisor Steve Kadish will assume many of Keller’s current responsibilities in an effort to “streamline” the current administrative structure.
CHILD'S PLAY: Sculpture 2 students have a “sterile birthday” as part of a class presentation in Tiltfactor’s “play cube” on Thursday on Massachusetts Row.
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Biologist Zamecnik ’33 passes away at 96
Renowned scientific researcher Paul Zamecnik ’33, who is credited with the discovery of a molecule critical for protein synthesis, died Oct. 27 of cancer in his home in Boston at the age of 96, according to his daughter, Elizabeth Coakley. Zamecnik, long considered a front-runner for the Nobel Prize, enrolled in Dartmouth Medical School — at the time a two-year program — in 1934, and later finished his medical degree at Harvard University, where he spent the majority of his career.
Alum. nominated to be ambassador
Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis ’89 — nominated by President Barack Obama to be the ambassador to Hungary last month — was praised by Democrats and received little criticism from Republicans during her hour-long Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on Wednesday.
