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Rebooting the Classroom Teaching with Technology Move Forward Public Interest Architecture • Lafayette • Palliative Care March-april 2015 • $4.95 Rebooting the Classroom Teaching with technology Move forward. With confi dence. No matter how complex your business questions, we have the capabilities and experience to deliver the answers you need to move forward. As the world’s largest consulting fi rm, we can help you take decisive action and achieve sustainable results. www.deloitte.com/confi dence Copyright © 2015 Deloitte Development LLC. All rights reserved. 150312_Deloitte_Ivy.indd 1 1/21/15 10:17 AM MARCH-APRIL 2015 VOLUME 117, NUMBER 4 FEATURES 33 An Extra Layer of Care | by Debra Bradley Ruder The practice, and progress, of palliative medicine p. 18 38 Good Design | by Stephanie Garlock The rise of public interest architecture 46 Vita: Lafayette | by Laura Auricchio Brief life of an American champion: 1757-1834 48 Computing in the Classroom | by Sophia Nguyen Toward twenty-first-century learning technologies JOHN HARVard’s JournAL 18 Allston’s new era tangibly advances, a tenured jazz musician, pilfering Memorial Hall’s clapper, honoring the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg, when undergraduates give and take care, and the men’s basketball team findsitself challenged p. 38 p. 28 DEPARTMENTS 2 Cambridge 02138 | Letters from our readers—and thoughts on Harvard’s building costs 3 The View from Mass Hall 11 Right Now | Globalization and inequality, comprehending coffee consumption, visualizing music ECKETT B 16A Harvard2 | A calendar of spring events, navigation instruments, eyeing Bette Davis, USTINE Manchester on the rebound, for the love of baseball, farm-based cooking, and more J 60 Montage | The art of orchestrating opera, a photographer of “decisive moments,” recalling the end of a mother’s life, minimalist memoirist, Donald Hall after 80, and more WAN BAAN; STU ROSNER; I 67 Alumni | She shoes horses, they stand for election as Overseers and alumni- HAW; HAW; p. 67 association directors, club and other awards, and more S 72 The College Pump | Love Story locale, and other passionate pursuits On the cover: Pictured at the Kennedy Longfellow School, educators Heather French, Ed.M. ’13, at left, and 80 Treasure | Seventeenth-century BMOCs Ingrid Gustafson integrate technology into Cambridge public-school classrooms, working with tools like 73 Crimson Classifieds Scratch and robotics kits. Photograph by Stu Rosner. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: JONATHAN www.harvardmagazine.com Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 LETTERS EDITOR: John S. Rosenberg SENIOR EDITOR: Jean Martin Cambridge MANAGING EDITOR: Jonathan S. Shaw ART DIRECTOR: Jennifer Carling Publishing, women’s safety, football ASSISTANT EDITOR-ONLINE: Laura Levis ASSISTANT EDITOR: Nell Porter Brown STAFF WRITERS: Stephanie Garlock, CASS SUNSTEIN Affairs (OIRA) with caution (“The Legal Sophia Nguyen As Homer tells us, when the Olympians Olympian,” January-February, page 43). BERTA GREENWALD LEDECKY come down from the heights to interfere Sunstein and many other adherents of UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWS with mere mortals, the consequences can be cost-benefit analysis fail to acknowledge Olivia Munk, Melanie Wang unpredictable at best and harmful at worst. that such analysis is far from objective but Thus, I read Lincoln Caplan’s article about is in fact value-driven in its definitions of Cass Sunstein’s years in the crucible of the both costs—which regulated entities gen- CONTRIBUTING EDITORS regulatory system and his years as head of erally exaggerate—and benefits—which John T. Bethell, John de Cuevas, Dick the Office of Information and Regulatory protect broad populations and future gen- Friedman, Adam Goodheart, Elizabeth Gudrais, Jim Harrison, 7 WARE STREET What would he think (even allowing for Courtney Humphries, Christopher S. Bricks and Mortar differences in construction costs and in Johnson, Adam Kirsch, Colleen Lannon, other elements of the plan) of the Kenne- Christopher Reed, Stu Rosner, Deborah MucH Has been made of the University’s dy School’s 77,000-square-foot expansion Smullyan, Mark Steele multimillion-dollar investments in online and campus reconfiguration—expected education. But this remains very much a to cost three times as much per square HARVARD MAGAZINE INC. physical campus, investing to renovate the foot? The work will rightly be funded en- PRESIDENT: Henry Rosovsky, JF ’57, undergraduate Houses, create new core fa- tirely by gifts. But it is a lot of money, and Ph.D. ’59, LL.D. ’98. DIRECTORS: Suzanne cilities like the Harvard Art Museums, and there are many competing demands at the Blier, Peter K. Bol, Jonathan L.S. Byrnes, grow expansively in Allston. school (its campaign goal is $500 million) D.B.A. ’80, Thomas F. Kelly, Ph.D. ’73, Harvard spent $465 million on capi- and elsewhere. That is something for Uni- Lars Peter Knoth Madsen, Margaret H. tal projects in the last fiscal year, and it’s versity leaders to think about. Marshall, Ed.M. ’69, John P. Reardon Jr. easy to envision the pace ramping up. The A bit more institutional transparency ’60, Bryan E. Simmons ’83 $6.5-billion Harvard Campaign outlined at might help, too. The Kennedy School has least $1.3 billion in donor support for such described its project’s finances, but that ventures—no doubt to be augmented by is exceptional. Did the art museums cost BOARD OF INCORPORATORS This magazine, at first called the Harvard Bulletin, was internal funds, endowment decapitaliza- $350 million? More? Who knows? House founded in 1898. Its Board of Incorporators was char- tions, and incremental borrowing. renovation expenses dribble out in the tered in 1924 and remains active in the magazine’s Harvard clearly expects the campus footnotes to the dean’s annual report. The governance. The membership is as follows: Stephen J. Bailey, AMP ’94; Jeffrey S. Behrens ’89, William I. experience to remain a global draw. Its fa- Smith Campus Center and myriad Busi- Bennett ’62, M.D. ’69; John T. Bethell ’54; Peter K. Bol; cilities will likely be built to Harvard stan- ness School projects are anybody’s guess. Fox Butterfield ’61, A.M. ’64; Sewell Chan ’98; Jona- than S. Cohn ’91; Philip M. Cronin ’53, J.D. ’56; John dards: high-quality construction, meant More illumination might inhibit excessive de Cuevas ’52; James F. Dwinell III ’62; Anne Fadiman for long-term use, and designed to attain capital-project ambitions somewhat. That ’74; Benjamin M. Friedman ’66, Ph.D. ’71; Robert H. Giles, NF ’66; Richard H. Gilman, M.B.A. ’83; Owen very high levels of operating and environ- could be useful for a fortunate community Gingerich, Ph.D. ’62; Adam K. Goodheart ’92; Phil- mental/energy efficiency. All to the good. that is, nonetheless, watching expenses; ip C. Haughey ’57; Brian R. Hecht ’92; Sarah Blaffer Hrdy ’68, Ph.D. ’75; Ellen Hume ’68; Alex S. Jones, NF But none of this comes cheap. Last fall, enduring some internal turmoil to restrain ’82; Bill Kovach, NF ’89; Florence Ladd, BI ’72; Jen- New York Times architecture critic Michael employee-benefit costs; and taking over- nifer 8 Lee ’99; Randolph C. Lindel ’66; Ann Marie Kimmelman praised the Arcus Center due steps to fund depreciation for its 25 Lipinski, NF ’90; Scott Malkin ’80, J.D.-M.B.A. ’83; Margaret H. Marshall, Ed.M. ’69, Ed ’77, L ’78; Lisa L. for Social Justice Leadership, at Kalama- million square feet of existing facilities—a Martin, Ph.D. ’90; David McClintick ’62; Winthrop zoo College, designed by Jeanne Gang, valuable discipline, but one bound to pinch L. McCormack ’67; M. Lee Pelton, Ph.D. ’84; John P. Reardon Jr. ’60; Christopher Reed; Harriet Ritvo ’68, M.Arch. ’93, but noted “understandable future academic budgets. Better to build Ph.D. ’75; Henry Rosovsky, JF ’57, Ph.D. ’59, LL.D. ’98; grumbling about spending $500 a square that understanding now, along with all the Barbara Rudolph ’77; Robert N. Shapiro ’72, J.D. ’78; Theda Skocpol, Ph.D. ’75; Peter A. Spiers ’76; Scott foot…considering the dire circumstances new buildings on the drawing boards. H. Stossel ’91; Sherry Turkle ’69, Ph.D. ’76; Robert H. of many of those Arcus intends to help.” vjoHn s. rosenberg, Editor Weiss ’54; Jan Ziolkowski. 2 MarcH - April 2015 Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 THE VIEW FROM MASS HALL A Cosmopolitan Spirit write to you from snowy Harvard,having just returned from a week in London, Cambridge, Zurich, and Davos—a trip that combined delivering the Rede Lecture at Cambridge University and meeting with alumni from five continents at Ithe annual World Economic Forum. As this reaches you, I will be about to depart for China, where I will be visiting with some of the more than 1,700 alumni living and working there, meeting with University leaders from the country’s burgeoning higher education sector, and delivering an address on the role that research universi- ties can play in combating climate change. In preparation for my international trips, I inevitably learn some- thing new about Harvard’s extraordinary reach. Across the Univer- sity, global connections and collaborations are developed, sustained, and enhanced based on interest and opportunity. A wide range of entrepreneurial efforts are supported by thoughtful infrastructure, and the result is a global strategy that is especially nimble. Harvard is in the world and of the world in more ways than one might envi- sion—or hope to include on a single page. We start, of course, with our scholars. One in three faculty mem- bers comes from an international background or has internation- al education experience. The College welcomed freshmen from 69 countries this fall, and one in five students enrolled at the University Harvard is one of the few places in the world capable of bringing is international.
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