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The New Provost Institute for Economic Policy Research. thought about those qualifications, a com- He has directed both Stanford’s Center mitment to the University’s mission and Alan M. Garber ’77, Ph.D. ’82 (M.D. for Health Policy and the Center for Pri- values was central, as was personal com- Stanford ’83), now Kaiser professor and mary Care and Outcomes Research at the patibility. Beyond that, she sought some- professor of medicine and economics at School of Medicine since their founding one with “a really wide range” of interests Stanford, will become Harvard’s provost and is a staff physician at the Veterans Af- and curiosity about the broad spectrum of on September 1, President Drew Faust fairs Palo Alto Health Care System, asso- the University’s activities. It was “a high announced on April 15. Garber succeeds ciate director of the VA Center for Health priority for me to find the right person Steven E. Hyman, M.D. ’80, who has been Care Evaluation, and research associate with the first set of qualifications,” she provost since 2001; he announced last of the National Bureau of Economic Re- continued, “and, if possible, in a differ- December that he would step down at search (NBER), in Cambridge, where he ent area from my own, with science as an the end of this academic year, in June. founded and, for 19 years, directed the example,” complementing her work as an “I am humbled but extremely excited healthcare program (responsibilities that historian. at taking this important position at Har- brought him back to Massachusetts four In considering Garber’s administra- vard,” Garber said during an interview at times yearly, he reported). tive experience, she said, her conversa- Massachusetts Hall (where he appeared Garber thus straddles two very large tions with him and those who know him wearing a vintage Harvard necktie). “I academic fields within Harvard—medi- brought out the clear judgment that “he’s would be much less excited,” he said lat- cal research and practice, and the social a leader” who enjoys colleagues’ respect— er, “if this was the Harvard I knew when sciences—a particu- I was a student.” The University of the larly useful qualifi- Alan M. Garber 1970s, he explained, was extraordinary, cation for a senior “but the progress it has made since then administrator whose has been nothing short of spectacular,” responsibilities have both in the caliber of the individual fac- come to focus on in- ulties and in the ways the parts of the terdisciplinary col- institution work together; he gave par- laboration and on ticular credit to Hyman in effecting the University-wide is- latter gains. sues such as the op- In a statement accompanying the an- eration of the library nouncement, Faust cited her new col- system. (His prede- league’s “talent, range, and versatility” and cessor, Hyman, stud- said, “Alan is a distinguished academic ied philosophy and leader who brings to Harvard an extraor- the humanities at dinary breadth of experience in research Yale, became a Har- across disciplines. He has an incisive intel- vard Medical School lect, a deep appreciation for the challenges professor of psychia- facing research universities, and a loyalty try, served as found- and commitment to Harvard, where he ing faculty director has maintained strong ties since his years of the interdisciplinary mind/brain/behav- as reflected in his service on the Stanford as an undergraduate.” ior program, and in 1996 was named head committee that oversees tenured appoint- The disciplinary breadth is evident. At of the National Institute of Mental Health. ments (see below). As he returns to an in- Stanford, Garber is professor (by cour- On the day Garber’s appointment was an- stitution where he was an undergraduate, tesy) of economics, health research and nounced, Hyman joked about another sim- a graduate student, a professor acquainted policy, and of economics in the Graduate ilarity: their common “rabbinical look”— with many faculty members, and a Medi- School of Business. He is also a senior fel- although being bearded is not thought to cal School visiting committee member, low in the Freeman-Spogli Institute for be a formal qualification for the job.) Faust said, Garber “knows the geography, International Studies and in the Stanford In an interview, Faust said that as she literally and figuratively.” Garber is now a Harvard parent as well; he and his wife, Ann Yahanda (a nonprac- In this Issue ticing oncologist), have four children, including son Daniel, a sophomore at the 54 Harvard Portrait 60 Ants through the Ages College this past academic year. 55 Fellows Three 61 Brevia 56 Lessons from Libya? 63 Mentoring and Moral Experience Garber’s dual interests in economics 57 Yesterday’s News 65 The Undergraduate and medicine emerged early. He recalled in 58 Marc Hauser’s Return 67 Sports his class’s twenty-fifth anniversary report 58 From Our Website 67 Alumni (a member of the class of 1977, he earned 59 University People 72 The College Pump his A.B. in 1976, and an A.M. in his fourth

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year), “As a freshman, I was a reluctant and harvard portrait ambivalent pre-med. After Ec 10 exposed the latent economist in me, I switched my concentration from biochem to economics. That decision led to a Ph.D. in economics at Harvard and a simultaneous M.D. at Stanford, and eventually to a career that combined the two interests.” His dissertation was titled “Costs and Control of Anti- biotic Resistance.” His research has focused on improving healthcare delivery and financing, especial- ly for the elderly. According to his Stanford biography, Garber has “developed methods for determining the cost-effectiveness of health interventions” and studied “ways to structure financial and organizational in- centives to ensure that cost-effective care is delivered. In addition, his research explores how clinical practice patterns and healthcare market characteristics influence technology adoption, health expenditures, and health outcomes in the United States and in other countries.” In deciding now to turn from research and—at least initially—teaching, Garber said that he had probed the challenges facing Harvard’s faculty and students, and higher education, “But overwhelm- ingly, my impression has been that this is an amazing institution that is well posi- tioned” to maintain and sustain its preem- inence [in the future]. He is looking forward, he said, to “assisting Drew in easing that path to the future.” Peter Der Manuelian One of the things that made him excited about taking the post, he said, was “the In fourth grade, the lure of ancient Egypt grabbed Peter Der Manuelian ’81, King people I’ll be working with,” particularly a professor of Egyptology. “I think it strikes everybody—and they grow out of it. I team of deans whom he described as effec- just didn’t. For most people it’s mummies. For me, it was the grandeur and scale of tive collaborators and visionary leaders of the monuments and architecture, the beauty of Egyptian art, the fascinating code of their individual schools. In the provost’s hieroglyphs.” Manuelian is Harvard’s first full-time Egyptologist since 1942. (He previ- office, he said, he would be making the ously taught at Tufts.) His life’s work has centered on the pyramids at Giza, built in the transition from a professor, with all the third millennium B.C. In 1977, he finally got to Egypt, as a teenager doing epigraphy— academic autonomy that implies, to a “role producing publishable facsimile line drawings of tomb wall scenes and inscriptions of service to the University.” The change, for Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). (He’s since become a graphic designer who he said, is “dramatic,” but “the mission is has designed 30 Egyptological monographs, his own included.) After concentrating in compelling.” Near Eastern languages and civilizations at Harvard, Manuelian earned his Ph.D. at the At Stanford, Garber was elected to, and University of Chicago in 1990. He has published four scholarly books and three for chaired, a committee “with no Harvard children, including one that teaches kids how to draw hieroglyphs. An MFA curator analog,” the University Advisory Board, since 1987, he has directed its Giza Archives Project since 2000—gathering, digitizing, which makes the final decision on all fac- and cross-referencing all archaeological materials on the pyramids. He’s also working ulty and tenure appointments. That expe- with iPad apps to teach hieroglyphs interactively, and gearing up to write a biography rience, he said, exposed him to “the work of George Reisner (1867-1942), his predecessor as Harvard’s resident Egyptologist. of tremendously talented people” who do A squash player, Manuelian and his wife, writer Lauren Thomas, live in the Back Bay “extraordinary work” in fields ranging with four cats. A recent Newsweek essay he wrote on the Egyptian protests was un- from studio art to engineering to English characteristic. “I usually don’t write about A.D. things,” he says. “I stick to B.C.” to physics. That appreciation for how faculty members in different fields view their

54 July - August 2011 Photograph courtesy of Peter Der Manuelian work should serve Garber well in one of centralization as about what you can accom- growing breadth and excellence of universi- the Harvard provost’s key responsibilities: plish” academically, he pointed out, citing ties in other countries, and the general eco- leading the ad hoc committees that make collaborations such as the Harvard Stem nomic “uncertainty.” In light of the latter, he the final decisions on appointments to Cell Institute and the associated depart- said, “Every major university has to be pre- tenured professorships—a role the presi- ment of stem cell and regenerative biology. pared for all kinds of eventualities,” putting dent has now in part devolved. Garber said he hoped to build on such a premium on flexibility and nimbleness. As for moving from the relatively cen- collaborations, enlarging their scale and Fundraising will be a priority, too. Gar- tralized Stanford to Harvard’s legendary pursuing them wherever appropriate. The ber’s involvement in Stanford’s capital decentralization, with each school pro- task force report on the arts, for exam- campaign (now drawing to a close) was ceeding “on its own bottom,” Garber said, ple—released as financial crises arose in limited to that of a faculty member who “The reality is that neither institution is at late 2008—is full of “compelling” ideas, he spoke at events; he said he did not have the extreme that’s sometimes portrayed.” noted; a high priority is to “make the arts an administrative role. Where he was in- Within research universities, he noted, more central to the University’s life.” volved, he found meeting alumni “enor- organization charts aside, “in fact, lead- Turning to the environment for higher mously rewarding,” and he “very, very ership occurs by a process of persuasion education, Garber acknowledged “threats much look[s] forward to my interactions” and consensus.” Of late, he added, Har- to our traditional sources of funds,” par- with fellow Harvard alumni. vard had shown “a much greater ability to ticularly federal grants for research from the work together” across the boundaries of National Science Foundation and the Na- Ramsey professor of political econo- schools and units. “It’s not so much about tional Institutes of Health. He also cited the my Richard Zeckhauser, who was one of

from 2001 to 2007 and chaired that board in 2006-2007, serving on the search committee that chose Faust as president. Com- Fellows Three plementing this knowledge of Harvard governance is her service as the first chair of the Radcliffe Institute’s visiting committee; she also helped effect the transition from division to school of A day before Commencement, the Harvard Corporation Engineering and Applied Sciences—her area of expertise, and elected three new members, with the consent of the Board of a field where Harvard plans significant growth. Overseers: Lawrence S. Bacow, M.P.P.-J.D. ’76, Ph.D. ’78; Susan O’Donnell is a Boston business executive, past Overseer, cur- L. Graham ’64; and Joseph J. O’Donnell ’67, M.B.A. ’71. When rent member of the Allston Work Team (which is formulating new they began serving, on July 1, the trio increased the Corpora- plans for campus development, and through which O’Donnell has tion’s ranks from seven to 10, a major step in implementing its worked closely with several current deans), and a leading force in planned expansion to 13 members with a new committee struc- Harvard and other philanthropic activities. His fundraising expe- ture, among the reforms announced last December (see “The Corporation’s 360-Year Tune-Up,” Janu- ary-February, page 43). Bacow, who is about to retire after a decade as president of Tufts, was previously chancellor of MIT. He thus brings to the Corporation both extensive higher-education experience (complementing Fellow Nannerl Keohane, president emerita of Duke Lawrence Susan L. Joseph J. and Wellesley) and long S. Bacow Graham O’Donnell n/harvard news office ose Linco l n/harvard engagement in the Greater news office jon chase/harvard R news office ide/harvard justin Boston community. When William F. Lee ’72 was elected a Fellow rience—useful as Harvard launches a new capital campaign, and last year, he became the first current member other than President an avowed area of new interest for the Corporation—includes Drew Faust to live locally—an advantage in keeping current with service as a member of the executive committee of the $2.6-bil- the campus. Now, with Bacow and O’Donnell on the board, there lion fund drive that concluded in 1999. He is also a recent College will be three Bostonians, plus Faust. parent, of Kate ’09 and her sister, Casey ’11 (see page 49). Graham, Chen Distinguished Professor emerita of electrical For more detailed coverage, see harvardmag.com/new- engineering and computer science at Berkeley, was an Overseer corporation-members.

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Garber’s dissertation advisers (the others melding physicians and economists, and marathon runner, physician, and micro- were Baker professor of economics Martin also—not a given—“a nice person, easy to economist, Zeckhauser said that Garber Feldstein and the late Warburg professor get along with.” combines “the energy of the first, the of economics Zvi Griliches), remembers Garber’s appearance on campus on bedside manner of the best of the second, his former student as “a very bright doc- April 15 immediately preceded the an- and the understanding of resources of the toral student” and a “successful academic nual running of the Boston Marathon, an third”—a broad and eminently useful set entrepreneur” who has run a “quite suc- event in which he has previously com- of characteristics for the challenges he cessful” research operation at Stanford peted. Citing the new provost’s roles as now faces.

May 2011: Libyan women in Benghazi look for family members among photographs of those killed or missing during the popular uprising against Muammar el-Qaddafi.

activities that could conceivably be con- strued as ‘lobbying,’ and therefore intro- duce questions of regulatory compliance. We take these questions very seriously.” On May 6, Monitor announced that it had retroactively registered “some of its past work in Libya, as well as recent work with Jordan” with the U.S. government in accor- dance with the Foreign Agents Registra- tion Act—in effect acknowledging that its image-related work had gone beyond consulting to attempting to influence opinion and perceptions as a lobbying entity. Given that Harvard faculty members have wide discretion to pursue outside activities, did the direct involvement of aeed khan/afp/getty images aeed khan/afp/getty images

S Porter in Libya, and the engagement of Monitor as a consulting firm, bear on Har- Lessons from Libya? had earlier tackled hard problems ranging vard as an institution? McKay professor of In the spring of 2007, this maga- from the economy of America’s inner cities computer science Harry Lewis, a former zine published a brief news item observ- to the delivery of healthcare. Other spe- Harvard College dean, raised the issue at ing that “Lawrence University Professor cialists were advising the country as well. the April 5 Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael Porter, perhaps the world’s pre- Yet as is now evident—as Qaddafi has meeting, during the formal question peri- eminent corporate strategist, is advising turned his weapons on his own people, od. (Porter, of the Business School faculty, the government of Libya on economic re- and as the United States and NATO allies was not in attendance; for full texts and form,” that the consulting firm he found- have resorted to bombing his forces—the links to other reports, see harvardmag. ed, Monitor Group, “is focusing on energy, reform effort came to naught. And, as has com/lessons-from-libya). tourism, and other industries,” and that come to light through reporting by Farah In 2006, he recounted, Porter, “acting other consultants were examining issues Stockman in the Boston Globe and others, as a consultant to a firm he founded, pre- of financial reform. Porter was quoted to Monitor Group not only offered advice on pared a report for the Libyan government. the effect that Libya “pretty much needs the economy, but proposed measures rang- The report promised that the country was universal reform” after years of Colonel ing from the commissioned writing of a at ‘the dawn of a new era’” and touted Muammar el-Qaddafi’s rule. book on Qaddafi, “the man and his ideas,” “Gaddafi’s Libya as a ‘popular democracy At the time, Libya had made efforts to to importing experts to meet with him and system’ that ‘supports the bottom-up ap- settle the claims from its role in the bomb- perhaps burnish his reputation. In a March proach critical to building competitive- ing of Pan Am Flight 103 and to disavow 24 statement posted on its website, Moni- ness.…’” The year 2006, Lewis continued, its previous ambitions to obtain nuclear tor acknowledged “some errors in judg- “was not some now-forgotten spring- weapons. Both steps were part of its cam- ment” in the context of “a period of prom- time of Libyan democracy. In the Econo- paign to end its status as a pariah nation. ise in Libya,” when “[i]nternational policy mist’s democracy index, published a few In this context, the engagement of out- at the time sought to seize an opportunity months later, Libya edged out the likes of side experts with the Libyan government to re-engage a rogue nation for the benefit Myanmar and North Korea for 161st po- did not seem to raise questions. of global security and the people of Libya.” sition, out of 167 nations.…I don’t know Porter had already become involved in “We are aware,” the statement went on, that Professor Porter broke any laws or advising on that nation’s economy, as he “that questions have been raised regarding University rules, and I would not want

56 July - August 2011 any new regulatory apparatus. Yet taking money to support a tyranny by dubbing it a democracy is wrong. Shouldn’t Har- Yesterday’s News vard acknowledge its embarrassment…?” From the pages of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Harvard Magazine He suggested that President Drew Faust might “remind us that when we parlay our status as Harvard professors for personal 1931 Immediately after Commence- 1971 In his final Commencement af- profit, we can hurt both the University ment, workers begin demolishing Apple- ternoon address to the alumni, retiring and all of its members.” ton Chapel to make room for the new president Nathan M. Pusey foresees an Faust, having been notified in advance Memorial Church. era of “radically altered conditions, sharp of Lewis’s queries, responded, “When I… change, and formidable obstacles—not think about the different ways that the 1946 Cambridge celebrates its cen- just financial, but curricular, method- president’s institutional voice can be gen- tennial as a municipality and Harvard ological, and philosophical as well.” uinely useful, serving as the University’s provides the Stadium as the site for a public scolder in chief is not high on the Boston Symphony Orchestra concert 1986 Urging the graduating seniors list.” She continued: and performances of a pageant, Pillars of to think globally, President Derek Bok What is high on the list for me is to Power, in which faculty members, alumni, warns: “Our attitude toward interna- help foster an environment in which and undergraduates take part. tional organizations has grown petulant individual members of our commu- and shrill. We have left UNESCO, repu- nity can openly say what they think 1951 The Bulletin notes that, during diated the World Court, and rejected and can disagree with one another the summer, women enrolled in Harvard new initiatives by the World Bank.” when their points of view diverge.… courses have access to many “precincts What is also high on the list is for sacred to the male” during the academic 1991Eppie Lederer, better known as me to support the wide discretion year: they live in Yard dorms (Grays, syndicated columnist Ann Landers, es- of all…the faculty across the Uni- Matthews, Straus, and Wigglesworth), tablishes a $1-million fellowship program versity, to pursue the directions of enjoy full privileges in Lamont Library, at Harvard Medical School to support academic inquiry…and the outside swim in the pool, eat in the Union, and needy students. activities and engagements that you use the boathouses. choose—subject to the norms that 1996 Tom Brokaw, anchor and man- are reflected in the policies of the 1956 Among the various summer aging editor of NBC Nightly News, is the University and the faculties, and jobs reported by undergraduates are College’s Class Day speaker. Speaking always with the hope that each of clamdigging, Bahamian smack fish- of the information superhighway, he us will exercise our privileges as ing, serving as a surfacing inspector observes, “This is the first time faculty members in thoughtful and for the Alaska road commission, in history that kids are teaching responsible ways. beer-tasting, and interpreting their parents to drive.” In that context, she said that in Rome for Ava Gardner. increasing individual and institutional engagement with the world “is a good thing,” but also obviously “require[s] us all to be sensitive and self-reflec- tive about our engagements, about how they embody our fundamental commitments and how they relate to our principles of academic freedom and inde- pendence and to issues of con- flict of interest.” For his part, Porter subsequently weighed in with a statement released initially to the Crimson: I have worked with dozens of countries around the world on competitiveness and economic development, which is one of my primary fields of research.…

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The period beginning in 2004, after things, the study identified numer- ya in the first quarter of 2007 and Libya had opened up, renounced ous fundamental weaknesses that have not worked there since. weapons of mass destruction, and needed to be addressed if Libya In the immediate aftermath of these settled international sanctions, was going to advance economically exchanges, it seemed unlikely that any marked the first opportunity for and socially, including weaknesses changes in fundamental University policy true reform in Libya for decades. in governance.…As it became clear concerning faculty members’ outside ac- The reform efforts were strongly over the following year that vested tivities would be forthcoming. But at the supported by the U.S. government. interests and conservatives had least, the potential risks of accepting cer- The study was conducted primar- succeeded in halting the reform tain engagements have been made vividly ily in 2005 and 2006. Among other process, I stopped my work in Lib- clear once again.

Marc Hauser’s Return on leave to work on a book, Evilicious: Ex- found guilty of, what the evidence was, plaining Our Evolved Taste for Being Bad; that what the sanctions were.” In light of this Professor of psychology Marc Hauser title is still forthcoming, reports the pub- incident, an FAS committee is considering will be returning to Harvard this fall—but lisher, Viking Penguin.) the procedures involved in such investiga- not to teaching. At a psychology depart- The courses he was scheduled to teach tions, asking whether they properly bal- ment meeting this spring, “a large major- in 2011-2012, “Origins of Evil” and “Hot ance transparency with concern for the ity” of the faculty voted against allowing Topics in Cognitive Science and Neuro- privacy of scholars accused of misconduct. him to teach courses in the coming aca- science,” were canceled, said Morss pro- Last August, FAS Dean Michael D. demic year, according to Faculty of Arts fessor of psychology Susan Carey, the de- Smith said five of the eight counts related and Sciences (FAS) spokesman Jeff Neal. partment chair. She said the department to studies that “either did not result in Hauser, who studies animal cognition exercised what power it could; it cannot publications or where the problems were as a window into the evolution of the hu- control whether Hauser advises students corrected prior to publication.” For the man mind, has been on a yearlong leave of or conducts research. Neal said the psy- three counts that related to published absence after a faculty investigating com- chology faculty vote effectively means that work, Smith provided citations for the mittee found him “solely responsible” for Hauser cannot teach in other Harvard de- articles, and said, “While different issues eight instances of scientific misconduct. partments or faculties, either. were detected for the studies reviewed, The University has never said whether Carey said she was troubled by the fact overall, the experiments reported were Hauser’s leave was related to the ques- that the University had released so little designed and conducted, but there were tions about his research. (Last summer, information about the case against Haus- problems involving data acquisition, data his automatic e-mail response said he was er: “Harvard has not told us what he was analysis, data retention, and the reporting of research methodologies and results.” Of the three published papers, one, a 2002 Cognition article, was retracted. Haus- From Our Website er (who has repeatedly declined interview Harvardmagazine.com brings you continuous coverage of University and alumni requests) notified another journal, the news. Log on to find these stories and more: Proceedings of the Royal Society B, in June 2010 that the video records and field notes that House Renovation Designs Revealed supported a 2007 finding published there Learn about plans for renewing student residences, and “were found to be incomplete” for two see renderings of new social and academic spaces in of the experimental conditions. He and Old Quincy. a colleague returned to the Puerto Rican harvardmag.com/housing-plans island where the experiment had taken place and re-ran those parts of the experi- A NOOK for My Book? ment; the new findings replicated the old. Elizabeth C. Bloom ’12 decides she would rather have The journal that published the third pa- the real thing. per, Science, offered more detail about the harvardmag.com/nook-for-my-book 2007 article it printed. A coauthor notified the journal in June 2010 that field notes on Endowment Managers’ Pay Reported rhesus monkeys—one of three species in- Harvard Management Company discloses the compensation volved in the study—were missing. Those of its president and five most highly paid portfolio managers. notes had been handwritten by a research harvardmag.com/2011-endowment-managers-pay assistant, and discarded after each day’s results were “tallied and reported to [the lead Visit harvardmagazine.com to get news as it happens. author] over e-mail or by phone,” the jour- stay connected - harvardmagazine.com nal said. In this case, too, the researchers returned to the site (the same Puerto Rican

58 July - August 2011 professor of atmospheric ley Foundation’s empha- University and environmental sci- sis on “preserving and ences Steven C. Wofsy; defending the tradition People and Mallinckrodt pro- of free representative fessor of chemistry and government and private Innovation Chief chemical biology X. Sun- enterprise” (www.brad- kris snibbe/harvard news office kris snibbe/harvard Gordon S. Jones has been appointed the sunney xie of x. courtesy ney Xie. leyfdn.org). Mansfield, a X. Sunney Xie Harvey C. inaugural director of the Harvard Inno- prominent campus con- Mansfield vation Lab, now being created on West- servative (see the Sep- ern Avenue adjacent to the Harvard Busi- Top Teachers tember-October 1999 cover story, “The 30 ness School campus. The lab aims to The Faculty of Arts and Years’ War”), used the occasion to speak serve entrepreneurs throughout the Uni- Sciences has named five about University values; read his text at versity and from the surrounding com- Harvard College Pro- harvardmag.com/mansfield-speech. And munity. Jones previously worked in mar- fessors—a title con- Hobbs professor of cognition and edu-

keting, product development, and other ferred for five years on news office ll /harvard mitche stephanie cation Howard E. Gardner has won capacities for the Gillette Company, and its most outstanding Benedict Spain’s Prince of Asturias Award for so- as a consultant, among other experienc- undergraduate teachers Gross cial sciences, complete with a 50,000- es, and has been a lecturer on marketing who are also distinguished in graduate euro honorarium and a Miró sculpture, at Bentley University and an admissions education and in research. Each also re- for his work on multiple intelligences, adviser for the HBS M.B.A. program. ceives funding for a semester of research. deemed “decisive in the evolution of the Those honored are Leverett professor education system” [for] taking into con- Journalism Director of mathematics Benedict Gross, who sideration the innate potentialities of Ann Marie Lipinski, separately received the Undergraduate each individual.” who shared a Pulitzer Council’s Levenson Memorial Teach- Prize for reporting on ing Prize for superb teaching (and who Radcliffe corruption in Chicago previously served as Harvard College Institute Fellows

and subsequently served kagan steven dean); Agassiz profes- Among the 51 Radcliffe as editor of the Chicago Ann Marie sor of zoology Farish A. Institute fellows for

Tribune for more than Lipinski Jenkins Jr.; Rabb profes- 2011-2012 (see the com- news office l inco n/harvard rose seven years, will succeed the retiring Bob sor of anthropology Ar- plete list at radcliffe.edu) Michael P. Brenner Giles as curator of the Nieman Founda- thur Kleinman, who is are eight faculty mem- tion for Journalism. Lipinski was a Nie- also professor of medical bers: Glober professor

man Fellow in 1989-1990, joining other anthropology and pro- news office kris snibbe/harvard of applied mathematics reporters who enjoy a year of study at fessor of psychiatry (see Farish A. and applied physics Mi- the University, and chaired an external page 63 for a graduate- Jenkins Jr. chael P. Brenner; Low- review committee, organized by the pro- student perspective); Cabot professor of ell professor of Romance vost’s office, that visited the foundation aesthetics and the general theory of val- languages and literatures

last year. ue Elaine Scarry; and Wolcott professor and of visual and envi- news office kris snibbe/harvard of philosophy Alison Simmons (who co- ronmental studies Tom Annette Gordon-Reed Stellar Scientists led the group that devised the General Conley; professor of law Six faculty members Education curriculum). Separately, at and of history Annette were elected to the Na- its annual Literary Exercises on May 24, Gordon-Reed; Pulitzer tional Academy of Sci- Phi Beta Kappa conferred its teaching professor of modern art

ences in May: Berkman news office ll /harvard mitche stephanie prizes on lecturer on sociology David L. Maria E. Gough; asso- professor of econom- Gary Ager; Brooks professor of international ciate professor of urban ics Gary Chamberlain; Chamberlain science, public policy, and human de- planning Judith Long; professor of genetics George C. Church velopment William C. Clark; and Baird professor of government news office ll /harvard mitche stephanie Maria E. (a genomics pioneer who professor of science emeritus Dudley R. Eric Nelson; associate Gough was the subject of the Herschbach (see also page 47). professor cover story in this maga- of organismic and evo- zine’s January-February Bradley Prize, lutionary biology Anne 2004 issue); Higgins pro- Prince of Asturias Award Pringle; professor of fessor of mathematics Kenan professor of government Har- systems biology Pame- Joseph D. Harris; York vey C. Mansfield has been awarded the la Silver; and professor kris snibbe/harvard news office kris snibbe/harvard

George professor of physics An- $250,000 Bradley Prize, given to those news office l inco n/harvard rose of history Daniel Lord Church drew Strominger; Rotch whose work is consistent with the Brad- Eric Nelson Smail.

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island) and repeated the experiment; again, you’re expected to run a huge lab and be col- Carey has collaborat- the results matched the earlier findings. laborating with people all over the place,” ed with Hauser on three The charges leveled against Hauser sug- said Bennett Galef, a psychologist who stud- papers herself; that work Visit the online version of this article at gest that his transgressions went beyond ies social learning in animals at McMaster “was extremely carefully harvardmagazine.com/ mere sloppiness: the “Grey Book” (the University in Canada. “You have very little done, and carefully done marc-hauser-returns document that sets forth FAS policies control over what’s going on on a day-to-day partly because of Marc’s for links to relevant governing research, instruction, and other basis.” In his lab, says Galef, “I see every piece involvement,” she said. “I websites and articles. professional activities) defines research of data every day as it’s coming in. But if you had no inkling of any of these problems.” misconduct as falsification, fabrication, or have 20 students, you can’t do that.” If there is a finding against Hauser by plagiarism. The fact that two of the stud- Gordon Gallup, a psychology profes- a federal funding body, more details may ies were not retracted altogether means sor at the State University of New York- emerge. These agencies do not, as a rule, that “neither of these journals can believe Albany (and a previous critic of Hauser’s discuss open investigations, but a spokes- that there was credible evidence of falsifi- work), disagreed. “The principal investi- woman for the U.S. Department of Health cation or fabrication,” says Carey. gator has to take primary responsibility” and Human Services Office of Research Hauser’s peers are split on whether the for vouching for the experiment results, Integrity told the Boston Globe that the of- research practices described in the Science and to do that, he said, that investigator fice is investigating Hauser; Smith said correction, and the missing data cited by the has to have direct knowledge of “all of the last year that Harvard was also cooperat- other two journals, should have been deemed evidence and all of the procedures and all ing with the National Science Foundation misconduct by this definition. “At Harvard of the technicalities.” and the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Ants through the Ages Professor emeritus and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. “There was nothing Two and a half centuries ago, a for him to read on ants. He learned ev- young Spanish doctor named José Celes- erything by himself from scratch.” Now tino Mutis arrived in present-day Colom- Wilson, collaborating with Spanish myr- bia and promptly began writing hundreds mecologist José Gómez Durán, has recon- of pages of groundbreaking observations structed Mutis’s field work from redis- about ants. He sent them in book form to covered diaries and papers. In their new iesgo R iesgo omán Lores the great Swedish taxonomist Carl Lin- book, Kingdom of Ants: José Celestino Mutis and naeus, but the volume was lost at sea. the Dawn of Natural History in the New World “This remarkable man, working entirely (Johns Hopkins), the modern scholars bert hö ll dob l er bert on his own, was a real pioneering scien- “essentially write Mutis’s book for him”— tist,” says renowned biologist and ant restoring a long-lost chapter to the annals

hotograph courtesy of R courtesy P hotograph scholar E.O. Wilson, Pellegrino University of the history of science. The science that, in effect, began with Mut- is was unable to benefit from his lost work, and only “began seriously in the mid nineteenth century with an au-

thor named Auguste wi l d Al ex Morel, a scientist from Top, an Atta sexdens forager shears off a fragment; above, a leafcutter Switzerland,” Wilson of the same species completes explains. “Studies re- its cut; right, an Atta cephalotes ally began their mod- worker carries a leaf to the nest. ern phase in the United States under the leadership of Wil- of its most ac- liam Morton Wheeler, who was a pro- complished and fessor at Harvard.” Wheeler’s work best-known strongly influenced the teenage Wil- contemporary experts. Alongside the

son, who recalls, “When I was 16 and book on Mutis, he is simultaneously re- wi l d Al ex decided I wanted to become a myrme- leasing, with his frequent co-author and cologist, I memorized his book.” former colleague, Bert Hölldobler, a sec- The field now finds in Wilson one ond book, The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization José Celestino Mutis, in a portrait from by Instinct (W.W. Norton), which compre- the Royal Academy of Medicine, Madrid hensively consolidates the scholarship on

60 July - August 2011 FAS’s Fitter Fisc tects for the new McMurtry Building, a Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Mi- 90,000-square-foot home for its depart- chael D. Smith told colleagues on May Brevia ment of art and art history, including 3 that FAS had reduced its unrestricted studios for art practice, design, film, me- deficit during fiscal year 2011 (ended June dia studies, and documentary film, plus 30) to approximately $16 million—bet- library and gallery space. Construction ter than the $35-million defi- is scheduled for 2012.…Stan- cit originally budgeted. He ford is also exploring opening forecast a balanced budget a second campus, in New York for the new fiscal year, given City, focusing on applied sci- continued financial discipline, ence, engineering, and gradu- and room for investments in ate education.…The Univer- priorities such as information sity of Pennsylvania received technology and the libraries a $225-million endowment gift (where significant adminis- for its School of Medicine from trative savings and service en- Raymond G. and Ruth Perel- hancements are sought) and man, for whom the school will in staffing for the forthcoming be named; their gifts to Penn’s capital campaign, intended to capital campaign now total be the source of funds for more $250 million.…Yale announced significant priorities such as that it would make access to House renewal and academic all the public-domain digi- growth. For more details, see tal images in its museum, ar- harvardmag.com/fitter-fisc. chive, and library collections available online, free, without House Renewal Updates Radcliffe’s Changing Roster.Radcliffe Insti- license or restrictions on use; The College has identified tute dean Barbara J. Grosz, who assumed the position on 250,000 images are available Harvard-owned properties an acting basis in 2007 and became dean the following year, initially, with millions more that will provide temporary announced in mid April that she would relinquish the post forthcoming.…University of residences for 180 undergradu- on June 30. After a year of leave, the computer scientist will Southern California engi- ates displaced by the renova- resume her teaching and research activities at the School neering alumnus John Mork tion of Old Quincy during of Engineering and Applied Sciences, where she is Higgins and his wife, Julie, have given the 2012-2013 academic year, professor of natural sciences. In thanking Grosz for her ser- his alma mater $110 million for the pilot project for the sub- vice, President Drew Faust said, “Barbara has a talent for scholarships. He is chief ex- sequent renovation of all the nurturing intellectual communities—forging new interdisci- ecutive of Energy Corporation Houses (see “Prototyping plinary collaborations, bringing together scholars from Har- of America. House Renewal,” March-April, vard’s schools and around the world.” At month’s end, Faust page 44). Students will live in named Lizabeth Cohen, Jones professor of American studies, Nota Bene Hampden Hall, near the Har- as interim dean, while the search for a permanent succes- From chile and china. In vard Book Store; Fairfax Hall, sor is organized. Cohen, a past chair of the April, the government of Chile opposite the rear entrance to history department, was a Radcliffe fellow and the state-affiliated China Widener Library; and Ridgely in 2001-2002, and co-chaired Faust’s Com- Scholarship Council separately Hall, on Mount Auburn Street. mon Spaces Steering Committee, which ex- reached agreement with the They will continue to dine in amined opportunities to use campus spaces University to finance students Quincy, while enjoying kitch- better to promote social, artistic, and intel- pursuing graduate and pro-

ens and cable TV connections lectual interaction. In other news, the insti- news kris snibbe/harvard office fessional study at Harvard. in their interim quarters. The tute announced that it had appointed 51 Lizabeth The University and Chile will graduate students now housed fellows for the 2011-2012 academic year, Cohen share the expense of support- in the buildings will be given after cutting back for two years following the financial crash. ing 15 Ph.D. students at a time priority access to other Har- (an increase from the current vard-owned apartments. Separately, de- On Other Campuses number of Chileans enrolled), and some signs for the renovation—including hori- Forging ahead with its ambitious master’s-degree candidates. The Chinese zontal links between entryways and new $250-million Stanford Arts Initiative, nonprofit institution will underwrite social and arts spaces—were released that University has retained Diller Sco- transportation, living expenses, and tu- May 20; see harvardmag.com/housing- fidio + Renfro (which redesigned Lin- ition for 15 doctoral and 20 master’s stu- plans for details and images. coln Center in New York City) as archi- dents annually.

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Architecture and engineering. ford’s ad hoc committee on ROTC rec- Faculty of Arts and Sciences colleagues The Crimson reported in April that two ommended that the university also invite that just 37 percent of students surveyed new undergraduate concentrations are the program back to campus. had participated in the events and pro- being designed for the fall of 2012. The grams offered during “optional winter department of history of art and archi- BGLTQ resources. Harvard College activities week.” She expressed the hope tecture and the Graduate School of De- dean Evelynn Hammonds accepted that in future years, faculty members sign are collaborating on a program in the principal recommendation from a would organize more of the offerings; architectural studies, encompassing the- working group she formed last fall and they provided just 4 percent of the nearly ory, studio work, and architectural his- will create a staff director position to 100 options in 2011 (staff and students tory, but not aiming for preprofessional coordinate the “existing—and substan- submitted the rest). certification. Separately, the School of tial—supports” for bisexual, gay, lesbian, Engineering and Applied Sciences would transgender, and queer undergraduates Miscellany. Harvard Kennedy School create a separate course of study in elec- and to create needed new programs. The has announced the creation of a new trical engineering, to distinguish it from task force was co-led by Susan Marine, chair—the Schlesinger professorship the five current tracks within engineer- assistant dean for student life and di- of energy, national security, and foreign ing sciences. rector of the College’s Women’s Center, policy—honoring James R. Schlesinger which has informally functioned in part ’50, Ph.D. ’56, a former Overseer who ROTC rolls on. Both Columbia and as a center for BGLTQ students. Marine served as U.S. secretary of defense and Yale have reached agreement with the noted that Harvard is of energy, as CIA director, and as chair U.S. Navy to reinstate Naval Reserve “the only institution of the Atomic Energy Commission.… Officers Training Corps (NROTC) pro- among the Ivies and Construction has begun on the new grams. Columbia’s will function through other elite colleges that $207-million Allston housing complex the ROTC unit at SUNY Maritime Col- does not have a desig- to which the Charlesview residences lege in Throgs Neck, New York—an nated point person” for (south of Harvard Stadium, at the inter-

agreement very similar to the one Har- BGLTQ resources and news office jon chase/harvard section of Western Avenue and North vard reached with the Navy in March support. Separately, Ma- Susan Marine Harvard Street) will be relocated. The (see “ROTC Returns,” May-June, page rine announced her de- current site is at the center of Harvard’s 45). Yale’s NROTC unit will be located parture at the end of June to become an now-stalled plans for Allston campus on its campus, in the absence of any ex- assistant professor and program director development; the University swapped isting program nearby. Meanwhile, Stan- at Merrimack College; she did not have parcels to gain control of the critical a teaching role in Cam- site.…James Cuno, Ph.D. ’85, former di- bridge. rector of the Harvard Art Museums and since 2004 president and director of the Winter activities Art Institute of Chicago, has been ap- week. Students will be pointed president and chief executive permitted to return to of the J. Paul Getty Trust, with its asso- campus two days earlier ciated museum, conservation institute, in 2012, during the Janu- and research wing.…Laurie Patton ’83, ary break created by a professor of South Asian culture and moving College reading religion at Emory University, has been and exam periods to De- appointed dean of Duke University’s fac- cember, with residences ulty of Arts and Sciences.…Ted Mayer, opening on the Friday assistant vice president for hospitality before the Martin Luther and dining services—Harvard’s director King Jr. holiday. In April, of food services for the past 15 years— College dean Evelynn has relinquished the position to pursue Hammonds reported to consulting opportunities.

CAPTURED ON CANVAS. This April saw the unveiling of a portrait of John P. “Jack” Reardon Jr. ’60, associate vice president for University relations and, since 1990, executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association. In recognition of a Crimson administrative career that began in 1965, Reardon’s class of 1960 commissioned the portrait at their fiftieth reunion. The oil painting by Juan Bastos, an accomplished portraitist from Los Angeles, depicts Reardon standing on the landing in front of Harvard Hall, with Massachusetts Hall in the background. In a nod to Reardon’s long service as director of athletics, it hangs in the Murr Lounge of the Murr Center, home of the athletics department.

62 July - August 2011 Photograph courtesy of Juan Bastos two of the most sophisticated of ant genera: Atta and Acromyrmex. As the subtitle Mentoring and Moral Experience suggests, these two species are notable On learning how to live • by Darja Djordjevic not only for their practice of harvesting vegetation, but also for the complex di- On March 4, Kolokotrones University Professor Paul Farmer, Ph.D.-M.D. ’90, and Jim vision of labor they adopt in order to use Yong Kim, M.D. ’86, G ’91, president of Dartmouth College (where he is also professor of leaves as a matrix for farming the fungi anthropology and of medicine), jointly convened “From Social Suffering to Caregiving,” that provide their food. “These ants have a symposium and celebratory dinner honoring Arthur Kleinman on his seventieth birth- the most complex social systems of all the day. The many-hatted Kleinman—Rabb professor of anthropology, professor of medical social insects,” Wilson explains, “and that anthropology, professor of psychiatry, Fung director of Harvard’s Asia Center—had makes them the most complex socially of taught both men, who were among the co-founders of Partners In Health, now interna- all animals, except for humans.” tionally known for its pioneering delivery of health services to impoverished people in The two books were conceived inde- Haiti and elsewhere. pendently, but felicitously have ended up As it turns out, he has shaped entire academic fields, and taught dozens of influ- bookending a 250-year tradition within ential professionals engaged in healthcare, medical scholarship, social policy, and myrmecology: Mutis was the first person service around the world. Twenty-five of those people joined Farmer and Kim to talk to record extensive observations of the about how Kleinman had influenced their thinking and work. Among them was Dar- leafcutter ants. “They excavate the soil, ja Djordjevic ’08, now a third-year M.D.-Ph.D. student in social anthropology at Har- while eating all the green vegetation in the vard. As an undergraduate, Djordjevic had studied with Arthur Kleinman and be- sown lands, and [carrying away the veg- come acquainted with his wife, Joan Kleinman, a Chinese literature scholar (whose etation] with intelligence and speed,” he suffering from Alzheimer’s disease Arthur described in “On Caregiving,” July-August wrote in his diary sometime within five 2010, page 25). Like other participants in the symposium, she knew that it proceeded years of 1770. Wilson and Durán present under the cloud of Joan’s terminal illness (she died two days later). Here are her re- the material from his notebooks on ants marks about her teacher, mentor, and friend. vThe Editors in English for the first time, framing it within modern research on the same or- “You’re doing fine. But don’t become health equity and social empowerment of ganisms and behaviors that Mutis puzzled merely a drudge,” he wrote to me in an e- the global poor, and questioned whether over in an age when Spain still ruled much mail during the summer of 2007. “Spend I was simply buying into the discourse of of South America. “It’s rather extraordi- some nights in the cafés eating tourchon de scholarly abstractions or truly reaching nary,” Wilson points out, “to be able to fois gras, sipping a premier wine, and enrich for a service-oriented life. Arthur’s words bracket the beginning of the study of one your own aesthetic, gastronomic, and oe- allayed much of my anxiety. I realized that of the most important insects in the world nological experiences.” some 250 years ago and then present the A rising Harvard se- Student and mentor: latest that we know about them, which is nior, I was doing my Darja Djordjevic and Arthur Kleinman a great deal.” first ethnographic field- He notes admiringly that Mutis’s sci- work in Paris, research- ence has proved not merely novel for its ing the condition of time, but also quite accurate. “For pos- African refugee women sibly one of the last times in the history at the Comede, a non- of science, we see how a young scientist governmental organiza- began working in a field where there was tion that provides free virtually nothing to go on or published— healthcare and social all he had was folklore and what he could services to migrants see with his own eyes—and his book from across the globe. shows what it was like to be thinking as For three months, I in- a scientist in an early era, and the sort terviewed female pa- of problems he came up against—how tients, served as an Eng- he made do.” Wilson also stresses that, lish-French interpreter, even after the thorough treatment he and and otherwise observed Hölldobler provide in The Leafcutter Ants, and assisted the staff. there are still many myrmecological ob- I was keen on build- servations to be made and problems to be ing my life around what solved: “I hope if you’re a young scientist I saw as the powerful who wanted to work with these ants, and union of medicine and you wanted to know what new areas are anthropology. Neverthe- open and discoveries to be made, you’d less, I felt anxious and still find some big gaps in this book.” overwhelmed. I doubted vspencer lenfield my ability to advance

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I was not expected to be a martyr, to leave I did what Arthur had trained me to do we saw 42-year-old Vestine, a mother of my former self behind in order to embrace best: I dove in head first. My informants four and subsistence farmer in a village an ethos of heroism. Arthur conveyed to from Anglophone West Africa spoke no eight hours away. She was both anxious me that the source of moral experience is French and had to navigate French bu- and happy to be at the hospital. Prior to a wholehearted, intense, and multifaceted reaucracy on their own. I accompanied coming to Butaro, she had consulted a engagement with all the arts, ideas, sensi- them to state offices, serving as their in- traditional healer, the only care available bilities, and values that brew within us or terpreter. I quickly took on the same role in her immediate community. With her stir our curiosity. I have come to see this as at the Comede. I spent some Saturday soft features and warm demeanor, she emblematic of what it takes to be a rigor- mornings hollering in the pristine boule- radiated vitality. Under her white linen ous anthropologist, and ultimately, what vards of Paris at protests organized by ref- shirt, though, she was concealing ad- it means to hone our ability to care about ugee activists to demand healthcare, edu- vanced breast cancer. We kept her in the and for other people. By pursuing such en- cation, and asylum. These minor actions hospital for a few days and took a needle deavors and commitments, we sway the defined my moral response and allowed biopsy, which I packaged for a Boston pa- homeostasis of our own physiology so that me to try out the habitus of a scholar-ac- thology lab. She was sent home with pal- life can become a pragmatic realization of tivist-advocate. liative chemotherapy. Even in Boston, the moral values and struggles chances of a cure would have that define who we are. Migrant-rights protest, Paris, July 2007 been slim. During my summer at Lamenting our defeat, I the Comede, I interviewed tried to accept this moment women from across West as an inevitable part of the and Central Africa. We caretaker’s confrontation shared little in the way of with the limits of individual common experience. They agency and the enduring were all victims of sexual imperative to carry on. My and political violence. Their commitment was solidified stories of poverty, persecu- by the momentum and en- tion, and loss consumed me. thusiasm the cancer program Under Arthur’s tutelage, my had stirred among Rwandan jordjevic goal was to interpret their health workers and local narratives and interactions D darja peasant women. I was con- within the French asylum system, to illu- As soon as I graduated, I returned to vinced that together, we could make it sus- minate the lived experience of gendered France to earn a master’s. At the Come- tainable. violence and social vulnerability. I listened de, I helped lead a new women’s mental So often in medicine, there is no cure, to these women. Although their ability health program, did research at the Na- no Band-Aid, no clear solution. Anthro- to take action was terribly constrained, I tional Court of Asylum, and engaged in pology helps us respond to that reality: we came to recognize their concrete acts of activism for women refugee rights. Col- move beyond “Do no harm” to deconstruct moral resistance, such as denouncing the leagues and I secured a meeting with a what is before us and ask, “What can still exploitative acts of their former persecu- high-ranking official in the ministry of be done?” We acknowledge that the hu- tors in asylum court, or the sexual harass- immigration. In the field, I was fortunate man race will never eradicate all disease or ment encountered in migrant housing to be surrounded by people whose values suffering. Yet if we constantly reevaluate projects. I saw that macroscale political and visions of a just society, in which the our responses to human need, we propel and economic processes may ensure mar- poor, the refugee, and the citizen should ourselves to a greater humanity, to a more ginalization in seemingly distant contexts: all enjoy the same right to health, reso- enduring and meaningful involvement in the transformation from indigent African nated with my own. I acquired a more the lives of others. Anthropology compli- woman to female asylum seeker did not nuanced understanding of what it means cates what we take for granted in medi- empower, despite migration from a war to build community and to build commu- cine, reminding us to do better, to look for zone to the stable outskirts of Paris. nion: to do so we must identify what mat- answers in the backyard of everyday moral I struggled with my own feelings of in- ters most to us, and thus become better and social experience. adequacy and inaction as I witnessed the equipped to care for others. Immersed in a society recovering from misery of my female informants, fearing Having worked with Africans in unspeakable catastrophe, I ruminated on that I was a naïve scholar selfishly collect- France, at the intersection of the devel- the themes of my own path. In retrospect, ing thick descriptions of suffering for my oped and developing worlds, I sought a I could identify caregiving as a pivotal own academic advancement. Deep in the way to integrate my interests in women’s value in my immediate family. Beginning intersection of the French medical, immi- health and chronic disease. I found this in early in my childhood, I witnessed and gration, and welfare systems, I was receiv- Rwanda, where I volunteered at Partners participated in the moral, emotional, fi- ing a priceless education. What did I have in Health and helped with the inaugural nancial, and deeply personal investments to offer in return? Confronting my first phase of the national cervical cancer pro- of caretaking, as my parents assumed re- moral crisis as a neophyte anthropologist, gram. On my third day at Butaro Hospital, sponsibility for poor and sick relatives liv-

64 July - August 2011 ing through the wars of secession in the care for others by being thrust into con- guage; trust and solidarity evolve slowly. former Yugoslavia. They struggled with tact with another human being, another Ultimately, it becomes another home. disillusionment and exhaustion while col- self. However, it may be that the best If we believe Arthur’s assertion that lecting humanitarian supplies for the daily caregiving involves a dichotomous experi- “the world and self are divided, and that victims of a disintegrating society and ence: self-fulfillment and self-knowledge is the human condition,” the link between state that had defined itself as uniquely allow for greater empathy and efficacy, medicine and anthropology is hardly elu- suited to care for its citizens. It was in but there is a certain element of self-ef- sive. With a stethoscope in one hand and my parents’ home that I first encoun- facement that allows for true service, al- a tape recorder in the other, my task as a tered caregiving as a process in which we truism, and generosity of spirit. In other physician-anthropologist will be to find repeatedly recast our priorities, identi- words, caretaking involves abandoning the place where the moral interests of the ties, and personal narratives in reaction self-interest to step into the world of an- individual and society meet, so that the to the plethora of emotions and changes other, thus becoming part of something maximum good can be achieved for both. that come with crisis. Even with pure in- greater than oneself. It was this ideal, so Arthur has trained me to observe, reflect, tentions and self-sacrifice, caregiving is a well articulated in Arthur’s teaching, that and analyze as an aspiring caretaker and moral act that inevitably brings us face to drew me into the space between medicine social scientist. He has shown me the art face with failure, loss, and despair. and anthropology. As in caretaking, the of listening, of serving others while staying Moved by the suffering of others and ethnographer abandons her comfort zone attuned to the resounding chords of my enraged by injustices, we respond from to enter a foreign culture: the social codes own narrative. He has introduced me to moment to moment as best we can be- are unfamiliar; participation is gradu- an ethnography and moral experience that cause the alternative is to remain disen- ally defined; her speech seems tedious is intensely personal and transformative. gaged, even more powerless. We learn to with the clumsy cadences of a new lan- Above all, he has taught me how to live!

the undergraduate Messy Questions, Messy Answers by sarah zhang ’11

ome questions reveal more in the ship welfare” yielded no relevant hits. nomic class is manifest in the myriad large asking than in the answering. As I The answer to the question is beside and small lifestyle choices that under- ranted about the impracticalities the point—more telling is why the ques- graduates make. Harvard does recognize of unpaid internships, a friend in- tion seemed so strange in the first place. this. Unlike most other universities, it Sterrupted, “Can you be on welfare if you’re For one, it runs counter to the very spirit charges the same room and board regard- working an unpaid internship?” of social-welfare programs, as the unpaid less of whether you’re living in a cramped Can you? The question was so absurd intern’s lack of income is usually a choice. walkthrough or the top floor of Leverett in its juxtaposition of privilege and pover- Although unpaid positions at prestigious tower, and it has only one dining plan, ty, the only proper response was to laugh. magazines or nonprofits lack financial which offers the same food to everyone. Of “It’s never even occurred to me,” I said. compensation, they offer cultural capital, course, indicators of socioeconomic status (All those ways to eke out a living that which in turn operates in a complete- exist that can’t be erased by any official had occurred to me as I was sending my ly different paradigm from welfare. To technique short of mandating institu- résumé to the land of unpaid internships, equate the “poverty” of a Harvard gradu- tional conformity: how often you eat out, a.k.a. New York City, and this was not one ate who has chosen an unpaid internship where you go for spring break, whether of them.) My curiosity piqued, I began to real poverty, in fact, feels distasteful. you know how to act at fancy events, asking this question over dinner. The re- Although I never had any plans to apply how you decorate a dorm room, what you sponses of fellow students were similar to for welfare, I was always a tinge embar- can afford to leave behind as trash when my own: Um… haha…I wonder. When I posed rassed asking the question, in case people you move out of that dorm room. (Work- the question to Gail Gilmore, arts career thought that I did. ing dorm crew after the May move-out, I counselor at the Office of Career Services Socioeconomic class runs as an under- found designer clothes and whole sets of for more than 13 years, she looked equally current through Harvard. At its meri- perfectly nice furniture.) surprised: “No one has ever asked me that tocratic ideal, college is meant to be an But even if Harvard cannot provide a before.” Even my foremost authority on equalizer, but achieving that goal is not completely level playing field, it can pro- all other matters, Google, was no help on just a matter of making college affordable vide a lever. Regardless of your parents’ this one. The search term, “unpaid intern- through financial aid, because socioeco- income, you can, if you so choose, go into

Harvard Magazine 65 john harvard’s Journal a career that pays in the 90th percentile oped an allergic reaction to certain high- ably does reflect a bias, conscious or not, straight out of college. salaried jobs, such as finance and medi- on my part. But those friends who come At the same time I was grumbling about cine. These were also the fields that I, as from lower- or middle-class backgrounds unpaid internships, I had friends from the the child of Chinese immigrants, felt not have all expressed anxiety about the wor- same middle-class background who were so subtly pushed into—and not just by my thiness and practicality of their chosen planning a very different type of post- parents. When my Chinese dentist found paths. Lack of money makes us realize graduate New York life. They had lived out that I studied neurobiology at Har- money’s true value. there the previous summer, completing vard, she remarked, “You’re going to med I always thought my parents were un- the internships that led to their imminent school right? You’ll make so much money imaginative when they told me to consider Wall Street jobs. They called brokers to as a doctor!” I protested against her fin- finance or medicine, but now I realize they rent Manhattan apartments and self-con- gers, firmly lodged in my mouth, but she were being practical. Because these careers sciously protested that half their five-fig- took my ambiguous grunting as a yes. have a delineated path, they are actually ure signing bonus went for taxes—a sum My romanticizing of being poor and my the most meritocratic: if you jump properly that still amounted to several months’ sal- desire for a job with cultural capital were through a series of hoops, success awaits ary for an entry-level editorial assistant. I both, I came to realize, reflections of my at the end. In contrast, careers in journal- sensed our lifestyles diverging. own privilege. Socioeconomic class mani- ism and the arts are governed much more fests itself also in how one decides by lucky breaks and personal connec- My chosen field of journalism, science on a career. It is very easy tions. My parents did not belong to journalism more specifically, is not select- to be damning of that stratum of society where they ed for its lucrative opportunities. With people who could call a friend and get me an in- real life impending during my senior year, seem to ternship at the Wall Street Journal (as I began to see my lack of future income happened to someone I know). as a point of pride. I thought I was being Of course, who and what you practical, too: reading recipes for “poor know both matter in all profes- sions, but one or the other matters more in different jobs. My father came to the Unit- ed States with less than $100 in his pocket, and, understandably, financial stability was my parents’ main concern. Thanks to that, I largely grew up in middle-class comfort. This allowed me to concern myself with going to museums and reading the right kinds of books, which my parents encouraged to some extent, porridge” (oatmeal, even if they recognized none of chopped vegetables, and any leftovers the artists’ or authors’ names. from the fridge) and stringing together What I desired was capital four jobs to save money. But I was also ro- of the cultural kind. Being manticizing being young and poor. Hunger able to afford an unpaid took on an electrifying meaning—to want internship reflects privi- something strongly enough to be willing have a lege, but the very notion to go hungry for it. I believed my choice to shallow that you can choose the be truer for the suffering that was likely to and greedy type of career where come. Of course the only hunger I actual- fixation on mon- unpaid internships ly experienced was quickly alleviated by a ey. A housemate de- are the norm reflects trip to the dining hall or the Kong. scribed one such kid, a kind of privilege, too. A friend once told me that my interest who wore only T-shirts I did try to find out wheth- in writing had everything to do with sta- from recruiting fairs and er unpaid interns are eligible for tus. I looked at him skeptically: “What whose one goal in life was a six-figure welfare, but the answer is messy, status? I’m never going to make any mon- salary. It turned out that he was support- varying state by state and program by ey.” But if I couldn’t admit it then, I do ad- ing his single mother and younger sibling. program. As to why we choose the ca- mit it now. Although careers in journalism His obsession with money was not greedy reers we do—that answer is messy, too. and the arts rarely pay well, they generally but merely practical. carry prestige that a similarly paid blue- Berta Greenwald Ledecky Fellow Sarah Zhang ’11 collar job does not. Most of my close friends are academics has graduated and heads to Israel this fall to trav- To reconcile myself to my likely lack of and artists whose chosen careers have no el, write, and do field research on a Booth Fellow- future financial compensation, I devel- guarantee of financial stability. This prob- ship. In other words, she does not have a job.

66 July - August 2011 Illustration by Michael Austin At the Eastern Sprints in Worcester, Dominant Flotilla Harvard’s heavyweights (above) and lightweights celebrate their wins. Since Harry Parker became head men’s crew coach in 1963, Harvard has been a In early June, the heavyweight steadfast powerhouse on the water. Yet crews and the varsity lights all some years are more powerful than others, made their respective grand finals and this spring Parker’s crews dominat- at the IRA regatta in Camden, New ed Eastern rowing in a way that was rare Jersey, but none was able to record even for the Crimson. At mid May’s East- a national championship there. ern Springs regatta at Lake Quinsigam- University of Washington crews ond in Worcester, Massachusetts, Harvard edged both the Crimson varsity captured the Rowe Cup for overall heavy- and JV boats, by 2.7 seconds and 1.6 seconds, weight supremacy, sweeping (for the sixth respectively, while the freshmen claimed the time in Harvard history) the freshman, bronze, 3.7 seconds behind California, with junior-varsity (JV), and varsity events. In Washington second. In a true photo finish, the varsity final the Crimson were two Yale nipped the varsity lights by a mere .022 seconds in front of Princeton, which edged seconds. Given the sterling spring of row- Wisconsin for the silver. ing, Harvard will no doubt send crews to Next up was Yale, at the annual, ancient the Henley Royal Regatta in England, in late Harvard-Yale boat race on the Thames Riv- June (after this issue went to press). er in New London, Connecticut (see “The Mystique of Red Top,” May-June 2010, page 66). Last August, Yale hired Steve Glad- stone, the 68-year-old head crew coach and former athletics director at the University alumni of California at Berkeley, to run their men’s

crew program. Gladstone is one of the na- l etics ath of crimson courtesy tion’s preeminent rowing mentors; during his long career, his crews have won 11 In- The Brain as Art tercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) championships, i.e., national titles. Yale, with some fine athletes in its boathouse, Carl Schoonover ’06 merges science and aesthetics. was aspiring to improve its competitive results—having been swept, for example, ith flyaway hair and dis- of the aesthetically beautiful and the sci- in each of the past three years by Harvard. tinctive scarves—a fash- entifically compelling forms the heart of But the tide has not yet turned: on May 28, ion holdover from his Schoonover’s Portraits of the Mind: Visualiz- Harvard again brought out the broom at childhood in France— ing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century. the 146th running of the boat race, leaving WCarl Schoonover ’06 cuts a stylish figure The recent book features stunning im- Yale’s varsity 13.4 seconds behind, its JVs in the lab at Columbia’s doctoral program ages, ranging from medieval sketches and 20 seconds back, and the Eli frosh 21 sec- in neuroscience. But as a National Science delicate nineteenth-century drawings onds astern for a fourth consecutive Crim- Foundation-funded graduate student ded- by the founder of modern neuroscience, son sweep. Yet the Bulldogs were hardly icated to researching brain circuits, he’s Santiago Ramón y Cajal, to the modern unique victims. In the 2011 spring season, more inspired to talk Brainbow, in which those three Crimson heavyweight eights about what goes on neurons are seen entered 27 dual races and regattas: final re- inside the head than in color thanks to cord, 27-0. what grows on top. fluorescent pro- Charlie Butt’s lightweight crews were The convergence teins. (Brainbow similarly overpowering. At the Eastern was developed in Phrenologists held Sprints, Harvard won the Jope Cup for that the specific site the lab jointly run

overall lightweight superiority, taking of bumps on the weis museum by Knowles profes- the varsity and JV championships and skull, as marked sor of molecular and thus bringing to Newell Boathouse five of on this nineteenth- cellular biology Jeff century specimen, the six Sprints titles that 18 different col- helped indicate a Lichtman and pro- leges’ crews had vied for at the regatta. subject’s cognitive fessor of molecular Harvard’s varsity and JV lights were both or moral strengths and cellular biology and weaknesses by undefeated all spring; only the freshman revealing the volume Joshua Sanes, where lightweights, 3-3 in head-to-head races of brain area beneath Schoonover worked and seventh at the Sprints, suffered losses. each one. eszter b l ahak/semme by photograph as an undergradu-

www.gocrimson.com john harvard’s Journal ate; see “Shedding Light together people who care on Life,” May-June 2008, Carl Schoonover about things and creating page 40.) “It seems im- situations where it feels probable,” Schoonover okay to be weirdly pas- says, “that we can ex- sionate about what you tract so much structure do.” from something that, just Schoonover’s ability to looked at under a micro- pursue, in tandem, what scope, is gray and fairly are sometimes seen as op- amorphous. There are posed interests made him many beautiful stories stand out even at Harvard, about how you treat that his friends and colleagues slice of brain tissue—ma- say. “Carl proposes these nipulate it, denature it— fairly ambitious proj- in order, paradoxically, to ects that look like they’re reveal its true nature.” straddling fields in a way So entranced was that doesn’t seem realis- Schoonover by the brain tic,” says his mentor, Josh- that he used to keep es- ua Sanes. “They seem like pecially wondrous images a prayer for disaster, but of neurons in his wallet he’s pulled off every one and show them off like of them.” That gift, com- a proud parent. Once he bined with a highly adapt- and a woman struck up able intellect, a bottomless a conversation at a Man- well of enthusiasm, and hattan café, “and things what a former lab mate de- led as they invariably do scribed as “an unusual lack to brains,” he explains. of self-consciousness” may Out came the pictures help explain why he seems and the woman, an edi- to be extremely good at so tor at Abrams Books, many things. soon became his editor for Portraits of the Write (a collaborative forum for scien- Mind. “This is the stuff scientists are look- tists and writers), attend music concerts Schoonover’s expatriate American par- ing at on a day-to-day basis,” Schoonover weekly, and host a radio show on classical ents, a retired information-technology se- explains, yet the images and data are usu- and contemporary music that occasionally curity specialist and a homemaker, moved ally cordoned off in the pages of scientific discusses music’s relationship to the brain to France, looking for a “change of scene,” journals. To reach a wider, lay audience, and counts, among its past guests, neu- shortly before he and his siblings were each chapter in the book details differ- rologist Oliver Sacks and Daniel Levitin, born. Although he recalls no special early ent techniques for studying the brain, author of This Is Your Brain on Music. love of science, he says he chose that track such as Brainbow, electrical recordings of “He’s very eager and kind and intent on over humanities (despite being clearly neuron activity, and antibody staining. “If drawing people out,” says his roommate, drawn to philosophy) in secondary school the images are extraordinarily beautiful,” fellow doctoral candidate Andrew Fink. to preserve options in the European sys- Schoonover writes in the preface, “I would One day Schoonover struck up a conver- tem of education. “I did not enjoy the sci- argue that the principles underlying the sation with a man on the subway who ence classes,” he reports, but was always techniques that created them are in some turned out to be an important administra- drawn to the intersection of philosophical instances even more exquisite.” tor at the Morgan Library and Museum, and scientific questions, such as how lan- The book balances the scientist’s ob- who was carrying a box of opera records guage develops and how the mind works. session with detail and the artist’s ap- he was getting rid of. Schoonover offered He was devoted to the concept of open in- preciation for beauty, a reflection of to add the LPs to his own collection (2,500 quiry fostered by both disciplines, and did Schoonover’s own multifaceted sensibili- albums in his apartment and 1,000 more in have one thrilling glimpse into the creative ties: hands-on researcher, student of phi- storage). The man became a friend and fre- and entrepreneurial aspects of scientific losophy, writer, and lover of the arts. At quent dinner guest. One of the few things experimentation, thanks to his lycée’s bi- Harvard, he organized concerts at the Sig- Schoonover cooks is Julia Child’s recipe ology teacher, Emmanuel Ferraris, “who net Society and Lowell House—he used to for beef bourguignon; the recipe is covered taught me many years ago that biology can play the saxophone and the violin—and with meticulous annotations that often be beautiful, even when it is confusing.” was klappermeister for Lowell’s Russian have him in the kitchen acting “with fero- (Portraits of the Mind is dedicated to him.) bells. At Columbia, he works full-time in cious exactitude” at 3 a.m., Fink reports. “In the classroom, the way you learned a lab, but has made time to cofound Neu- “Carl,” he adds, “is very good at bringing science was to learn facts and replicate

68 July - August 2011 www.haa.harvard.edu experiments with known outcomes,” calls. But in the end, he found Schoonover says of his French education. that “the neuroscience I am most “But Ferraris had us design and do an interested in is at the level of experiment of our own.” Schoonover fo- molecules, cells, circuits, which cused on a friend who was a heavy smoker doesn’t have much to do with and structured an experiment to see what the questions philosophers were would happen to the latter’s oxygen ca- asking about mind and lan- pacity if he quit for a few weeks. “You guage.” could formulate a question and, if you did In an introductory neurosci- the process carefully enough, you would ence course taught by another get an answer,” he says. “To this day, I find formative teacher, professor of that mode of inquiry exhilarating.” molecular and cellular biology Throughout college, Schoonover bal- Venkatesh Murthy, Schoonover

anced his interests in philosophy and bi- read a paper by Sanes about fol- and mark e ll isman (2004) deerinck thomas of courtesy image ology, first at Columbia, where he was so lowing the day-by-day develop- A photomicrograph showing different components of intrigued by lab work that he approached ment of microscopic neuronal the rat cerebellum, including Purkinje neurons in green, glia (nonneuronal cells) in red, and cell nuclei in blue. a research director, said, “I am very eager structures in a living mouse. and completely ignorant,” and landed “I was blown away,” he recalls. When he time there convinced me that this was the a position washing dishes. That slowly found out Sanes was coming to Harvard right thing for me.” evolved into actual research and three to open the Center for Brain Science, he Still, Schoonover deliberately concen- summers of working on neuroscience immediately e-mailed to ask about joining trated in philosophy, thereby avoiding a projects. the lab. They met, and Sanes welcomed raft of required science courses. “I knew At the same time, he was still exploring him aboard. “He was very generous, and there was a good chance that science philosophy, and transferred to Harvard gave me a chance,” says Schoonover, who would be my life in the future, but I did in his junior year to pursue subjects like worked in the lab for the rest of his time at not see coursework as the means of get- Wittgenstein and logic, along with sci- Harvard, even taking a semester off, fund- ting there,” he explains. “In a lab you are ence. “I was more idealistic when I started ed by Sanes, to be there full-time. “If there asking questions; in the classroom, the out about the possibility of doing both was one person who launched me into a main activity is to absorb knowledge and science and philosophy,” Schoonover re- life of science, it was Josh,” he adds. “The things that are already established. It’s a

The Senior Seniors Fergenson ’28, 103, of Rockville, Maryland; Dorothy P. Col- lins ’30, 103, of Hyde Park, Massachusetts; Rawson L. Wood The oldest graduates of Harvard and Radcliffe present on ’30, 102, of Center Harbor, New Hampshire; Elliott C. Carter Commencement day were Marjorie Thomas ’42, 92, of Bed- ’30, 102, of New York City; and Bertha Fineberg ’31, 102, of ford, Massachusetts (accompanied by her husband, Edward Gloucester, Massachusetts. Thomas ’41, who was celebrating his seventieth reunion), and Donald F. Brown ’30, Ph.D. ’55, 102, of Stow, Massachusetts. Both were recognized at the afternoon ceremony. (The oldest class representative was George Barner ’29, 102, of Kennebunk, Maine, who is three and a half weeks younger than Donald Brown.) Mar- jorie and Edward Thomas were married while she was still at Radcliffe College. Because he was in the U.S. Navy at the time, she left college to be with him, but more than three decades later she returned to campus “because I had made a promise to my mother that I would graduate.” She received her bachelor’s degree in 1978. According to University records, the oldest alumni include: Halford J. Pope ’25, M.B.A. ’27, 107, of Hilton Head, South Carolina; Rose Depoyan ’26, 105, of Brockton, Massachusetts; Edith M. Van Saun ’29, 104, of Sykesville, Donald Maryland; Priscilla Bartol Grace ’58, 104, Marjorie Thomas F. Brown of Woods Hole, Massachusetts; Ruth Leavitt

Photographs by Stu Rosner Harvard Magazine 69 john harvard’s Journal very different mindset. I found that I like influence its electrical in 2007 with biology de- getting my hands dirty.” function. Thus, as for partment chair Stuart Fires- Today, in Randy M. Bruno’s lab at Co- many other areas of bi- tein and then-graduate stu- lumbia, Schoonover studies how the phys- ology, there is a tight re- dent Clay Lacefield, was set ical connections between neurons affect lationship between up to bring scientists and the flow of information in the brain. His structure and function,” writers together to foster - area of specialization is the rat barrel cor- he says. “The work con- more accurate and entic- ogy tex, where movements from the whiskers tributes a tiny piece to ing narratives. Portraits of are registered: How does a neuronal cir- the giant puzzle of look- the Mind was workshopped cuit translate the movement of individual ing at how synapses are there, and several oth- whiskers into a representation of the rat’s arranged and transmit er book projects by mem-

environment? In pursuit of an answer, information.” bers are pending, as well of pavia/depart o/ university Schoonover divides his time between as a stream of mainstream live rats and the microscope, where he is Schoonover is intent science articles, including working on a novel technique for identi- on explaining science; one on optogenetics coau- o mazzare ll fying synapses, the connections between Portraits of the Mind was thored by Schoonover pub- neurons. “It’s a fun surgery,” he says of the partly born from frus- lished in the New York Times delicate two-hour operation he performs tration with how in- science section in May. The l pao of dr. courtesy to insert electrodes that record neuronal adequately scientific long-term plan is to scale l l medicine/section of genera patho ment of experimenta activity in an anesthetized rat’s brain. A techniques—and sci- Italian histologist and future up NeuWrite, Schoonover dentist drill is used to thin down the skull, ence in general—are Nobel laureate Camillo Golgi adds; a second, parallel, made this drawing of a dog’s then a square half a millimeter on the side presented to the gen- olfactory bulb in 1875. The New York City-wide group is cut into the now paper-thin bone. Once eral public. The media features were revealed by is set to launch this fall and the bone is removed, Schoonover peels often focus too much a revolutionary method for there is talk of starting a away the dura mater, the one-tenth-of-a- on results over process, staining nerve tissue that Boston counterpart. today bears his name. millimeter-thick membrane surrounding he believes: “They get Schoonover has been giv- the brain—all without touching or dam- this final packaged story that has a weird, ing public presentations across the coun- aging the soft tissue underneath. misleading ring of truth along the lines of try and in Europe. He argues that dialogue Now midway through his doctoral ‘This is how things are,’ instead of, ‘We is essential because American scientists training, Schoonover says his current conclude this, based on circumstantial ev- serve, for the most part, at the discretion work focuses on where synapses are idence that relies on these techniques that of the public, thanks to their govern- formed on the branches of individual neu- are more or less reliable.’ That’s how scien- ment funding. “It is incumbent on us,” rons. “The spatial arrangement of synap- tists actually communicate.” NeuWrite, he adds, “to explain what we are doing.” tic connections on a neuron can strongly the forum he co-founded at Columbia late vsarah zhang

Graduate School Medalists

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Cen- tennial Medal, first awarded in 1989 on the occasion of the school’s hundredth anniversary, honors alumni who have made contributions to society that emerged from their graduate study at Harvard. It is the highest honor the Graduate School bestows, and awardees include some of Harvard’s most accomplished alumni. The 2011 recipients, announced at a ceremony on May 25, are: Heisuke Hironaka, Ph.D. ’60, Fields Medal-winning mathematician and popular author of 26 books on science, mathematics, education, and creativity; space-walking astro- physicist Jeffrey Alan Hoffman, Ph.D. ’71, professor of the practice of aerospace engineering at MIT; historian and former Stanford president Richard Wall Lyman, Ph.D. ’54, now Stanford’s Sterling From left to right: Richard Wall Lyman, Nell Irvin professor of humanities emeritus; and scholar of Painter, Heisuke Hironaka, U.S. history Nell Irvin Painter, Ph.D. ’74, Edwards and Jeffrey Alan Hoffman professor of history emerita at Princeton.

70 July - August 2011 Photograph by Jim Harrison Voting Results The names of the new members of the Board of Overseers and elected directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) were announced during the HAA’s annual meeting on the afternoon of Commence- ment day. Albert Frances Peter As Overseers, serving six-year terms, vot- Carnesale Fergusson Malkin ers chose: Flavia B. Almeida, M.B.A. ’94, of São Harvard Medalists Paulo, Brazil. Partner, The Monitor Group. Three people received the Harvard Medal for outstanding service to the University Richard W. Fisher ’71, of Dallas. Presi- and were publicly thanked by President Drew Faust during the Harvard Alumni As- dent and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of sociation’s annual meeting on the afternoon of Commencement day. Dallas. Albert Carnesale—You were a towering source of strength for the Harvard com- Verna C. Gibbs ’75, of San Francisco. munity, serving as a professor and dean of the Kennedy School, fostering a new era of col- General surgeon and professor in clini- legiality, curiosity, and cross-school collaboration as provost, and providing incisive intellectual cal surgery, University of California, San leadership—to this University and to several United States presidents—on international Francisco. affairs and the security of the nation. Nicole M. Parent ’93, of Greenwich, Frances Fergusson, Ph.D. ’73, RI ’75—Your service to Harvard knows no bounds; as Connecticut. Co-founder and managing president of the Board of Overseers, as a leader on visiting committees, and as a thought- partner, Vertical Research Partners, LLC. ful voice on governance, you have acted with energy, creativity, and resolve, advancing the Kenji Yoshino ’91, of New York City. University’s devotion to learning and helping imagine its future. Chief Justice Earl Warren professor of Peter Malkin ’55, J.D. ’58—Inspiring all who care deeply for Harvard, you have been constitutional law, New York University a true University citizen, serving as a trusted adviser to presidents and deans, championing School of Law. public service as a core University ideal, and making it possible through your extraordinary generosity for new generations of outstanding young men and women to fulfill their dreams Candidates selected as elected directors of a Harvard education. of the HAA, serving three-year terms, Malkin was surrounded by Harvard children and grandchildren—among the latter, were: no fewer than six who’ve been in the College in recent years (Louisa Malkin ’09 and Rohit Chopra ’04, of Washington, D.C. Matthew Blumenthal ’08), are still enrolled (Malkins Eliza ’13 and Emily ’14), or had Policy adviser, Consumer Financial Pro- just “joined the fellowship of educated men and women” (Michael Blumenthal and tection Bureau. Becky Malkin, both class of ’11). Tiziana C. Dearing, M.P.P. ’00, of Bed ford, Massachusetts. CEO, Boston Rising. tor Jacob McNulty, of Dunster House and broken the all-time reunion gift record— Katie Williams Fahs ’83, of Atlanta. Short Hills, New Jersey, will be the John El- for any Harvard class—by raising a remark- Marketing consultant/community volun- iot Scholar at Jesus College; chemical and able $61 million.” The class of 1986 achieved teer. physical biology concentrator James Pelle- the “highest class turnout in twenty-fifth Charlene Li ’88, M.B.A. ’93, of San Ma- tier, of Adams House and Attleboro, Mas- reunion history and exceeded their imme- teo, California. Founding partner, Altim- sachusetts, will be the Governor William diate-use funding target,” he noted, and eter Group; author. Shirley Scholar at Pembroke College; and the class of 1981, celebrating their thirtieth Sonia Molina, D.M.D. ’89, M.P.H. ’89, of applied mathematics concentrator Jackson reunion, “are well on their way to setting Los Angeles. Endodontist. Salovaara, of Pforzheimer House and Ber- a new standard for immediate-use fund- James A. Star ’83, of Chicago. Presi- nardsville, New Jersey, will be the Charles raising at Harvard.” (No additional figures dent, Longview Asset Management. Henry Fiske III Scholar at Trinity College. were announced.) Rothenberg added that the senior-gift campaign yielded an 82 percent participation rate and a record num- Cambridge Scholars Alumni Gifts ber of leadership gifts. “You are profoundly Four members of the class of 2011 have The University had received 77,000 gifts as generous,” he said, thanking alumni, stu- won Harvard Cambridge Scholarships of May 24, including those from reunion- dents, parents, and friends of the Univer- to study at Cambridge University during classes, reported University Treasurer sity. “You have given of your time and re- ing the 2010-2011 academic year. English James F. Rothenberg ’68, M.B.A. ’70, during sources. You have shared your creativity concentrator Molly Fitzpatrick, of Win- the HAA’s annual meeting. The Harvard and energy for the enduring benefit of this throp House and River Edge, New Jersey, and Radcliffe classes of 1961 not only had remarkable institution, as it continues to will be the Lionel de Jersey Scholar at Em- the largest attendance of a fiftieth reunion expand the boundaries of knowledge, here manuel College; social studies concentra- in history, he announced, “they have also and around the world.”

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