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Commencement 2009 - Venkatesh Narayanamurti

Venkatesh Narayanamurti, the inaugural dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and former dean of Physical Sciences at Harvard University, delivered the keynote speech at the College of Engineering Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 17, 2009.

In 2007, Narayanamurti led Harvard’s transition from a Division of Engineering and Applied Science into the full-fledged School of Engineering. During his 10 years as leader of Harvard’s engineering arm, Narayanamurti oversaw a 60 percent increase in sponsored research, a 50 percent rise in the number of engineering faculty, a tripling in the number of graduate student applications, and greatly enhanced the visibility of engineering at Harvard. Narayanamurti is the John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Professor of Physics at Harvard, and director of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

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