Ivan Loveridge Bennett
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Ivan Loveridge Bennett, Jr. (March 4, 1922 – July 22, 1990) was an American physician who was dean of the NYU School of Medicine and served as president of New York University
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 1980-1981.

Bennett was educated at Emory University
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 where he was a member of Sigma Chi
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 Fraternity. Graduated with a B.A. in 1943, and a medical degree in 1946. Bennett was Deputy Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy under Lyndon B. Johnson
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 between 1967 and 1969. Bennett was also director of the department of pathology
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 at Johns Hopkins University
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 and also taught at Yale
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 and New York University
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.

He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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in 1972.
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