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Our Mission
The Harvard University Science and Engineering Committee (HUSEC) was created by the Harvard Corporation in January 2007 to advise the University’s senior leadership on all matters related to collaborative, interdisciplinary, and interschool science. HUSEC oversees, among other things, the creation and funding of new cross-school departments and committees and the allocation of resources for new interdisciplinary science ventures, including faculty slots, resources for students and education, and physical space and equipment.
The creation of a body such as HUSEC was one of the major recommendations included in the final report of the University Planning Committee on Science and Engineering (UPCSE), issued in December 2006.
HUSEC is chaired by the Provost, and includes the Deans of the faculties of Arts and Sciences, Medicine, Public Health, and Engineering and Applied Sciences, and approximately a dozen of Harvard’s leading scientists, engineers, and hospital leaders. In many respects, HUSEC and the University-wide science initiatives represent formalization and extension of interfaculty planning that begins in the IFI process.
Membership List
- Dennis Ausiello
- Edward J. Benz, Jr
- Jeremy Bloxham
- Joan Brugge
- Catherine Dulac
- Lee Fleming
- Jeffrey Flier
- Ed Forst
- Julio Frenk
- Michael Greenberg
- Barbara J. Grosz
- Steven Hyman
- Eric Jacobson
- David Korn
- Joseph Loscalzo
- Timothy Mitchison
- Michael D. Smith
- Frans A. Spaepen
- Christopher Stubbs
- Vikas P. Sukhatme
- Dyann Wirth
HUSEC Supported Programs
