History of the School of Humanities and Sciences
1995
A proposal to close the Food Research Institute is approved.
The National Research Council releases its national rankings and 63% of the School's departments place in the top ten in their discipline.
Sophomore College is launched.
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1996
Douglas Osheroff wins the Nobel Prize in Physics.
The Faculty Senate approves the establishment of the interdisciplinary Program in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.
1997
Vernon and Lysbeth Warren Anderson endow the H&S deanship.
President Casper creates four incremental endowed professorships in the humanities and arts.
H&S sets a fundraising record with $37. 2 million in gifts coming into the
School.
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| Back-to-back-to-back Nobel Prize-winners in Physics Steven Chu (far left), Robert Laughlin (center), and Douglas Osheroff (far right). |
Steven Chu wins the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Historian Jack Rakove wins the Pulitzer Prize.
The Program in Cultures, Ideas, and Values is transformed into Introduction to the Humanities.
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1998-1999
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1981-1994
