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University People Two of the Three Winners of the Blavat- Ences—Himself a Fields Medalist JOHN HARVARD'S JOURNAL the Cambridge Planning Board, (honoring the donor’s late father, who as this issue went to press. The founded Yıldız Holding, a multinational $100-million-plus project— corporation based in Turkey) will be led making three additions to cur- by Simmons professor of genetics and me- rent structures, including a tabolism Gökhan S. Hotamisligil. bridge over the Eliot Street ve- • Researching health policy. At the Medical ENT M hicular entry to link the Belfer School, which unveils its campaign in No- and Taubman buildings; raising vember, the department of health care pol- GOVERN F the elevation of the courtyard; icy launched its Health Care Markets and and, as a result, expanding the Regulation Lab to investigate high-quality, campus’s square footage by financially sustainable care. A $9.96-million nearly one-third—was signaled grant from the Houston-based Laura (Elena as a campaign priority during Munoz ’94) and John Arnold Foundation THE KENNEDY SCHOOL O F the school’s launch event last helped initiate seven projects on payment RTESY O May. Robert A.M. Stern Ar- reform, care exchanges, and other subjects, U CO chitects LLP, responsible for beginning on October 1. Schaeffer professor A rendering of the Kennedy School’s the Business School’s Spangler Center, did of health care policy Michael Chernew leads expanded and reconfigured campus; learn the effort. John Arnold was an energy trader more at harvardmag.com/hks-14. this new design, too. Construction is envi- sioned from mid 2015 to late 2017. at Enron before operating his own hedge covers “the salary and other administra- • Other public-health priorities. Soon after fund through 2012. tive costs for the position while helping to HSPH revealed the Chan family’s endow- Amid this news, the Graduate School of maintain and strengthen the leadership of ment gift, the school announced a $24-mil- Design and Graduate School of Education FAS going forward.” lion gift from entrepreneur Murat Ülker launched campaigns during the second and • Kennedy School construction. Harvard of Istanbul to establish the Sabri Ülker third weeks of September; highlights follow. Kennedy School took plans for an ambi- Center for Nutrient, Genetic, and Meta- As to the future? Professional fundrais- tious, complex, 77,000-square-foot addi- bolic Research, focused on ailments such ers, ever fretful, caution that past giving tion to and renovation of its campus before as diabetes and heart disease. The center does not guarantee future success. That Seeding Scientists vard’s Cabot professor of the natural sci- University People Two of the three winners of the Blavat- ences—himself a Fields medalist. Manjul nik National Awards for Young Scientists Bhargava ’96, now professor of mathe- Innovation Honorand are Harvard faculty members: Rachel matics at Princeton, was also awarded a Cherry Murray, dean of Wilson, professor of neurobiology at the Fields this year the School of Engineer- Medical School, who studies how brain SEAS / ing and Applied Sciences, circuitry works; and Adam E. Cohen, Math MacArthur, Et Alii has been awarded the professor of chemistry and chemical bi- Professor of mathematics Jacob Lurie National Medal of Tech- ology and of physics, who develops tools was named a MacArthur Foundation NDATION ELIZA ELIZA GRINNELL nology and Innovation. to probe molecular and cellular functions U fellow, for work in derived algebraic ge- Cherry R FO President Barack Obama (see “Light-Up Neurons,” March-April U ometry. Alumni honorands include Jen- Murray RTH made the announcement 2012, page 10). Each receives a $250,000 A nifer Eberhardt, Ph.D. on October 3. For details, see harvardmag.- unrestricted grant to pursue research. In . MAC ’93, a social psychologist; T com/murray-14. his biography, Cohen cited his father, Joel Joshua Oppenheimer ’97, ’65, Ph.D. ’70, JF ’71, D.P.H. ’73, maker of the documen- E. Cohen ATHERINE Humanities Honorands Mauzé professor of populations at Rock- C tary filmThe Act of Killing; . AND Alumni recognized with the National efeller University, for inspiring his inter- D and Craig Gentry, J.D. Humanities Medal, conferred in July, in- est in science. JOHN ’98, a computer scientist. clude M.H. Abrams ’34, Ph.D. ’40, Cor- Jacob Lurie Rick Lowe, a public art- nell’s Class of 1916 professor emeritus, Fields First ist who was a Loeb Fel- editor of the original Norton Anthology of Maryam Mirzakhani, Ph.D. ’04, now low at the Graduate School of Design, English Literature; David Brion Davis, Ph.D. professor of mathematics at Stanford, was also honored. For details, see har- ’56, Yale’s Sterling Professor emeritus of became the first woman to win a Fields vardmag.com/macarthurs-14. American history, the leading historian of Medal, the most prestigious honor in slavery; and Anne Firor Scott, Ph.D. ’58, mathematics. A native of Tehran, she won Library Comings and Goings Duke’s Boyd professor of history emerita, gold medals in the 1994 and 1995 Interna- Tom Hyry became Fearrington librar- a pioneering historian of women and the tional Math Olympiads, and earned her ian of Houghton Library—Harvard’s rare South. doctorate under Curtis McMullen, Har- books and manuscripts collection—in 28 November - December 2014 Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 said, the campaign’s alumni leaders are vardmag.com/dean-14. Complete cover- “We recognize design robust optimists. At the September 2013 age is indexed at http://harvardmagazine. as a catalyst for change launch event, Corporation member and com/topic/capital-campaign. with a strong social campaign co-chair Joseph J. O’Donnell dimension. We make ’67, M.B.A. ’71, a seasoned rainmaker, was “We Make Things That Matter” things that matter.” openly confident that “we’ll exceed” the The Graduate School of Design (GSD), which The campaign fo- goal. At the current pace, the campaign trains architects, landscape architects, and ur- cuses on five academic would need to raise about $550 million an- ban planners, invoked the theme of “grounded “areas of impact”—en- HOTOGRAPHY nually to meet the target during the next visionaries”—professionals engaged by what ergy and environment; P four years—a level of giving below that re- Dean Mohsen Mostafavi described as the con- urbanism and citymak- NIGHT Mohsen ported in fiscal years 2009 and 2010 ($597 stant tension between imagining and building ing; technology and K STIN Mostafavi U million in each year), during the height of human habitats—to launch its $110-million engineering; globalism J a financial crisis and deep recession that campaign on September 12 and 13. Rem Kool- and society; and art and culture—where pummeled stocks and private-equity and haas, professor in practice of architecture and the GSD expects to shape city-building and hedge funds —the assets from which most urban design, and Fumihiko Maki, M.Arch. design, in part by collaborating with other major gifts are made. ’54, G ’56 (both Pritzker Prize recipients) Harvard faculties. Those substantive foci Now, those markets are in a period of spoke on the successive evenings. Research map on to three financial goals. Enhancing extended boom (see recent investment and teaching presentations throughout the global impact (in an already very interna- returns by asset class for the endowment weekend highlighted challenges as diverse tional faculty and student body) requires in “Close to Par,” page 32). In its appeal to as climate change, the ability of small-scale funds for long-term research and travel to donors, as well as in its timing, The Har- interventions to make cities healthier, and studios around the world. Capacity at home vard Campaign appears to be on a formi- the role of designers in shaping urbanization includes support for expanded faculty and dable roll—and a record-breaking pace for in the coming century. “Our goal is a bet- student cohorts, the new architectural higher-education fundraising. ter world, a more humane world, and, yes, studies track for undergraduates, and reno- For details on the campaign’s overall a more beautiful world,” Mostafavi told Fri- vation of Gund Hall and construction of a progress, see harvardmag.com/cam- day’s audience, including hundreds of cur- complementary five-story “research tower.” paign-15; on the FAS deanship, see har- rent students, gathered in Sanders Theatre. The final aim focuses on student aid, to re- September, succeeding William Stone- RI ’07; Overseer Walter Isaacson ’74; and social mission, and so on; man, who took the post in 1997 and re- Pellegrino University Professor emeritus most recently, he was an HPAC mains curator of early books and manu- E. O. Wilson. Poetry nominees included adviser to then-Boston ITCHELL/ scripts. Hyry became director of special Maureen N. McLane ’89; Spencer Reece, mayor Thomas M. Me- M collections at UCLA in 2010; previously, he M.T.S. ’90; and Fred Moten ’84—who nino, LL.D. ’13, and a was head of manuscripts at the Beinecke wrote 1,000 sonnets during a year off from government-innovation Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, the College, while he worked at the Ne- team leader at Bloomberg STEAHPANIE Brian D. where he worked for 13 years.…Nancy F. vada Nuclear Test site. Eliot Schrefer ’01 Philanthropies.…Robert Farrell Cott completed a dozen years of service was nominated in young adult and chil- D. Manfred Jr., J.D. ’83, as Pforzheimer Foundation director of dren’s literature. Details are available at has been elected commissioner of Major the Schlesinger Library on the History of harvardmag.com/nba-14. League Baseball; he had been the sport’s Women in America in June; she oversaw chief operating officer.…Thomas Sheehan the building’s renovation, the processing Miscellany has joined Memorial Church’s music staff, of a backlog of accessions, and significant Professor of biology Brian D.
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