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Back to brick: a rendering of the fore the financial crisis, has been even demoralizing transition to a shared Business School’s Klarman Hall shorn of meeting and conference administrative system, new financial mod- facilities, so Klarman Hall repre- el, and unitary collecting and services be- sents another possible synergy gun in 2012. According to figures provided between the business and engi- by the library system, its fiscal year 2009

chool neering schools. and 2015 expenditures and full-time equiv-

ss s In Cambridge, the faculty alent staffing were $123 million and $111 mil- ine s

u group responsible for reenvi- lion, and 1,094 people and 741, respectively. sioning the undergraduates’ Those changes reflect both the transfer of

arvard b Cabot Science Library has un- functions (human resources, technology, veiled a “design brief” for redo- and so on) to other parts of the Univer- y of H s ing the first floor of the Science sity, and consolidations, retirements, and

courte Center, integrating the library, downsizing. Expenditures on materials Cabot Science Library and environs, Greenhouse Café, and court- were $46.5 million in the earlier year, and reimagined for today’s student researchers yards “to create a dynamic, 24- $45.9 million last year—a rising share of the hour student commons and a budget. Now, the library system is pursu- s technology-integrated library,” ing a $150-million campaign aimed at col-

rchitect complete with “mobile discov- lections, spaces, staff, digitization, and

m A ery bar.” Construction is to be- preservation; $52 million has been secured, la gin after Commencement; the Thomas reported. She is proceeding on work is funded by Penny Pritz- projects ranging from the Cabot makeover ker ’81, who was slated for a and information services for the new engi-

k Scogin Merrill E leadership role in the campaign neering complex to a prospective purchase

Mac before her appointment as U.S. of space in a depository facility in Prince- 2014. The work will also yield an enlarged Secretary of Commerce. ton shared with that university, Columbia, central campus green. Construction is ten- The library system more generally is also and the New York Public Library; given its tatively planned from early this year until in campaign mode. Sarah Thomas, vice continuing acquisitions, Harvard’s library August 2018—preceding the engineering president for the Harvard Library and Uni- system contemplates exhausting the stor- and science center across Western Avenue. versity Librarian, reported to the Faculty of age space in its own Massachusetts deposi- The latter complex, simpler and smaller than Arts and Sciences in early November that tory within the next several years. the four-building design being pursued be- the system had weathered the difficult and vjonathan shaw and john s. rosenberg

Harvard Medical School, par- Engineering a ticularly in the quantitative- School’s Future leaning systems biology and biomedical informatics de- One hundred days into his new posi- partments. tion as dean of the Harvard John A. Paulson He sees enormous oppor- School of Engineering and Applied Sciences tunity for more cross-school (SEAS), and after consultation with faculty collaboration. SEAS offers a members in the school and across the Uni- collaborative degree with the versity, Francis “Frank” J. Doyle III shared Graduate School of Design, insights into SEAS’s future during an au- but Doyle says Harvard has tumn conversation. “arguably the world’s lead- Computer science, in which he will ing business school,…medical make 10 senior appointments, will grow in school, and…law school”—all Allston, when much of the school occupies with professors eager to ex- new quarters at the end of the decade (see plore potential partnerships below). The department, strong already with engineers. As one ex- in the theoretical realm, looks to add ex- ample, he points to the many pertise in applied directions like machine faculty members through- Francis J. Doyle III learning and optimization (developing ef- out the University who are ficient solutions for problems: a simple ex- working in some way on climate change. sues, legal issues, computing, data-privacy ample is how to get from point A to point Like climate change, “The nature of issues.” Personalized medicine, for ex- B in the shortest time). Bioengineering, a these big challenges in [engineering] re- ample, is bound to affect the healthcare relatively small presence now, is poised search going forward,” Doyle asserts, “is discussion, get into legal issues of privacy, for growth, perhaps with collaborators at that they are going to touch on policy is- and have an entrepreneurial dimension,

28 January - February 2016 Photograph by Eliza Grinnell/Courtesy of Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 thereby involving the schools of business, medicine, law, and public health, in ad- dition to SEAS. These are problems “that require rallying something on the order of a couple hundred people to tackle,” he explains. “We weren’t well-positioned” for these kinds of partnerships in the past. “Today we are.” For a full account of the conversation on the future of SEAS, read harvardmag.com/ seasdean-16. Meanwhile the school, whose cohort of professors and tenure-track faculty mem- bers has risen nearly 80 percent in the past two decades, to 85 this academic year, re- ports that it is spilling out of its 410,000 Programs for High School Students square feet of labs, classrooms, and offices. A solution is in sight—but patience is re- Every summer, more than 2,000 motivated high school students quired: the plan submitted to the Boston from around the world are selected to attend Harvard Summer School Redevelopment Authority for review in No- and experience college life. vember envisions 496,850 gross square feet Pre-College Program Secondary School Program of new facilities facing Western Avenue, in 2-week program (noncredit) 7-week program (college credit) Allston, with occupancy scheduled in the Session I June 26 to July 8 June 18 to August 6 fall of 2020. The project includes 445,350 Session II July 10 to July 22 square feet of new construction, atop part Session III July 24 to August 5 of the platform for the science facilities on which work was halted by the financial summer.harvard.edu/high-school-programs crisis in 2010 (see “Allston: The Killer App,” March-April 2013, page 47). The remaining space would be landscaped, but reserved for future development. The project now also Signature Recovery Programs encompasses 51,500 square feet of SEAS ad- ministrative offices in the existing Harvard- owned building at 114 Western Avenue, which is to be renovated. The project is smaller and simpler— Answers and presumably less expensive—than the for four-building science complex envisioned nearly a decade ago. Among other changes, addiction it has shed a conference center, meant to serve several other buildings planned then, With the addition of McLean Borden Cottage, our expanding Signature Recovery Programs and a daycare facility. are empowering men and women to reclaim The new complex, conceived as six their sense of self-worth and manage their active stories above grade and two levels be- lives, free of alcohol or drug abuse. The clinical low, masses three blocks of laboratories, care and recovery methods used are evidence- totaling 209,000 square feet of science based treatments that result in positive therapeutic outcomes. facilities, facing Western Avenue; they sit atop a quadrangle, where “teaching McLean Fernside | NEW McLean Borden Cottage environments”—“maker space, design studios, fabricating garages, clubhouse Let us help you today. plaza rooms, as well as traditional flat and Call 800.906.9531. sloped-floor classrooms”—will be con- centrated (58,200 square feet in the new TOP RANKED PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL building, plus some in the renovated space U.S. News and World Report next door). The complex steps down to the south, to the temporarily landscaped plaza. There are also an expansive atrium Princeton, MA NEW Camden, ME and circulation areas, meant to tie the McLeanFernside.org McLeanBordenCottage.org

Harvard Magazine 29 Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 John Harvard's Journal whole facility together (122,250 square square feet of the total project. neering, material science, and mechanical feet); a cafeteria and lounges; and some Projected tenants include at least parts engineering groups. According to the reg- retail space. Public access is envisioned to of SEAS’s applied mathematics, applied ulatory submission, the project is designed the cafeteria, part of the atrium, and audi- physics, computer and computational to accommodate 360 faculty and staff torium (the latter on a scheduled basis), science, bioengineering, electrical engi- members; 1,000 graduate students and re- as well as the retail areas: about 20,000 neering, environmental science and engi- searchers; and 600 undergraduates daily.

portant academic job in tober 23 meeting to celebrate what he has Henry the Great America.” meant: Nitza Rosovsky, his life partner, He went on to summarize whom he met 60 years ago; and President On October 23, Henry Rosovsky con- his education; battle experience at Berke- Derek Bok, with whom Rosovsky col- ducted the annual meeting of this maga- ley; migration back to Harvard; further laborated so effectively for so many years zine’s Board of Incorporators and then, in battle experience in an “academic Mu- to the greater good of Harvard—and the accordance with the bylaws, concluded his nich” at the University in the late 1960s; wider world. tenure as president of Harvard Magazine and subsequent drafting as FAS dean. He In speaking about their work together, Inc. That small transition marked the formal served as a Fellow of the Harvard Corpo- President Bok related an essential story end of a towering career of service to the ration. And so on. about his friend. He recalled learning, in University. In his invaluable text, The Univer- Beyond the résumé, those privileged to 1973, that FAS’s then dean, the redoubt- sity: An Owner’s Manual (1990), he intro- have worked in proximity to Henry Roso- able John Dunlop, was departing at once duced himself this way: vsky know him to be a scholar of high to join the Nixon administration—a I have the pleasure of presenting distinction; a broad thinker about the shock, because the faculty was deeply di- Mr. Henry Rosovsky, who is the unique role and importance of research vided between liberals sympathetic to Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser Uni- universities; an advocate for and embodi- student complaints about Harvard and the versity Professor at Harvard Uni- ment of their values; and—rarest still—a wider world and conservatives outraged versity. His title, quite a mouthful, manager and leader of extraordinary skill. at their colleagues’ accommodation of the is intended to be impressive, but do The stories told about him all illustrate his students. Both sides felt alienated from remember that universities are in- deft ability to define problems and think the administration, too. Only Dunlop, a stitutions that love hierarchies and through solutions, and his subsequent seasoned labor negotiator, seemed able distinctions at least as much as the selfless commitment to effecting them. to keep the place together. But, Bok said, military. He is also the former Dean All those traits shone when FAS ad- he conducted a search, asked Rosovsky to of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sci- opted the undergraduate Core Curricu- lead FAS, and prevailed despite “a few, ences, a post frequently described lum, one of the intellectual legacies of his rather flimsy” objections. somewhat arrogantly in Cambridge, deanship. Lillian Ross’s 1978 New Yorker Why was it, he then asked, that Roso- Massachusetts—alas, rarely else- profile of that work is titled, “An Educated vsky was always sought after, and why did where—as “the best and most im- Person.” The title alludes to the curricu- he always acquit himself so well, “evoking lum, but its application to Rosovsky him- the most enthusiastic response” from self seems even more apt. Trained as an those who had seen him in action— economist, he is most of all a humanist, and whether his decisions were in their inter- a champion at that: widely read, worldly, est or not? engaged by new people and ideas, judi- Some years after the appointment, Bok cious and competent in every realm—and continued, he was walking through Har- warm and funny. vard Square when sociologist Laurence The magazine is much the stronger for Wylie hailed him. “I just wanted to be the his leadership and guidance since 2006, first to let you know that this morning, the a very turbulent period economically liberal and conservative caucuses decided and in publishing. But that pales com- independently that they would disband,” pared to his service to Harvard, which Wylie told him. Why? Bok asked, puzzled began when he enrolled as a graduate by the happy news. Because, Wylie said, student in the late 1940s. Henry “All of us trust Henry.” Rosovsky has been one of the sig- That remains an elemental truth, so we nal builders of the modern Uni- and many other members of this commu- versity, and one of the leading nity are delighted (and relieved) that Henry proponents of the idea of the Rosovsky, freed from his formal responsi- university around the planet. bilities, remains ever available for conversa- Two of his great partners in tion—and the wisest counsel on offer. that work attended the Oc- vjohn s. rosenberg and irina kuksin

Henry Rosovsky Photograph by Jim Harrison

Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 It is a safe bet The reconceived Allston that many of them engineering complex, as it are counting the will face Western Avenue days until they can see steel ris-

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the Law School, though, were more muted. On Campus, Concisely “[R]eformers harm themselves by nurtur- ing an inflated sense of victimization,” Harvard Race Debate, and Defacement Klein professor of law Randall Kennedy, Harvard Law School (HLS) was rattled one of those whose portrait was defaced, in November after black tape was pasted wrote in a New York Times op-ed. Climenko over portraits of its African-American professor of law Charles Ogletree, whose Authors! professors in Wasserstein Hall, thrusting portrait was also defaced, said he believes THE DEADLINE IS: the University into the national spotlight the incident represents constitutionally- MARCH 14, 2016 amid growing concerns over racism on protected free speech, and urged the Uni- colleges campuses (see harvardmag.com/ versity community to exercise restraint in to showcase your book in lawschool-16). President Drew Faust, who the face of prejudice. Harvard Magazine and frequently has used her platform to advocate reach 255,000 Harvard Admissions Adjudication, Again racial justice, an issue of deep personal sig- alumni, faculty, and staff. nificance to her, called the incident an “act With oral arguments for the second of hatred…inimical to our most fundamen- appearance of Fisher v. University of Texas at Aus- tal values.” University police are investigat- tin before the U.S. Supreme Court sched- The May-June 2016 Harvard ing the defacement as a hate crime; at press uled on December 9, Harvard filed an amicus Magazine will feature the time, no results had been announced. brief defending colleges’ and universities’ — Faust has expanded her advocacy in re- ability to consider race and ethnicity as part Summer Reading List, cent months and years, following protests of their holistic evaluation of applicants for of racism at Harvard and other elite univer- admission. Consistent with its arguments a special advertising section sities. Hours after defaced portraits were in 2012 (see harvardmag.com/amicus-16)— Harvardfor authors Authors’ (adjacent Bookshelf to discovered, she e-mailed the University to and with such prior cases as Bakke (1978) and Montage coverage of books announce the release of a more than year- Grutter (2003)—the­ University maintained and the arts). Your ad long study by the College Working Group anew that in its “experience and educational on Diversity and Inclusion, which included judgment, a diverse community of students includes: a full-color book recommendations such as better resources adds significantly to the educational experi- jacket photo and 7 lines of for low-income students and a long-term ence and future success of all its graduates, text—and will appear in both focus on improving faculty diversity. from all backgrounds and races. A campus the print and online editions At the Law School, student activists that is home to individuals with a deep and of Harvard Magazine. have called for structural changes such as wide variety of academic interests, experi- the removal of the crest of the slave-own- ences, viewpoints, and talents enables stu- For information about pricing ing Royall family from the school’s official dents to challenge their own assumptions, seal, echoing similar concerns at Yale and to learn more deeply and broadly, to develop and ad specifications, go to: Princeton. After the portraits’ defacement, skills of collaboration and problem solving, harvardmagazine.com/hauthors Dean Martha Minow acknowledged that and to begin to appreciate the spectacular contact Gretchen Bostrom racism remains a “serious problem” at the complexity of the modern world.” at 617-496-6686, or e-mail school and appointed a committee to re- Urging the Court to “reaffirm its previ- consider its seal. Responses from others at ous decisions recognizing the constitu- [email protected].

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