New president of Harvard University has Belarusian roots

13 февраля 2018

The father of Lawrence S. Bacow was a Minsk citizen, who many years ago emigrated from Belarus to the United States. His mother is also an emigrant, she moved to the States from Europe, after her whole family was killed in Auschwitz. Bacow spent 24 years on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). As president of Harvard University, he was selected from more than 700 candidates.