New Dean for Public Health New Script for One L,” January-February Julio Frenk, who served as Mexico’s Min- 2007, page 59), the school has invested sub- ister of Health from 2000 to 2006, has been stantially in international programs, and appointed dean of the Harvard School of Brevia work has advanced on its huge North- Public Health (HSPH), effective next Jan- west Corner building (see March-April uary. He succeeds Barry R. Bloom, who 2008, page 54). More than 26,000 donors has been dean for contributed to the the past decade. campaign. Frenk, a specialist in health systems Arts and policy, is cur- Administrator rently a senior fel- Lori E. Gross, who low in the global- previously over- health program at saw arts initia- the Bill & Melinda tives at MIT, has Gates Foundation. moved upriver to In making the an- become Harvard’s nouncement on associate provost July 29, President for arts and cul- Drew Faust cited ture. She will Frenk’s experi- work with the ence “at the cross- Harvard Art Mu- roads of scholar- seum, American ship and practice” Repertory Thea- and his “strong commitment to reducing SCIENCE SETTING. The first Allston tre, Villa I Tatti, and the University Li- disparities in health.” The full text of science laboratories, now under construc- brary; participate in Allston planning for tion, will present a rectilinear face to the the announcement is available at surrounding streets (see rendering in arts and cultural facilities; and collabo- www.news.harvard. “Refining the Allston Master Plan,” rate with whatever new structure for the edu/gazette/2008/08.21/ January-February, page 60). Within the arts at Harvard is eventually recom- four-building complex, however, architect 99-hsph.html. The maga- Stefan Behnisch envisions a more free- mended by the president’s task force on zine will present in- form approach. This drawing showed the the arts, whose report is depth coverage of the evolving design proposed for the interior expected in late fall. new dean and his priori- courtyard space as of early this summer. Gross succeeds Sean ties in a forthcoming , who became HARVARD NEWS OFFICE Buffington Julio Frenk issue. and Learning. His appointment partially president of the Univer- restores the structure prevailing until sity of the Arts, in Phil- Undergraduate Education Overseer 2003, when the formerly separate College adelphia, last year. STEPHANIE MITCHELL/HARVARD NEWS OPFICE Wolfson professor of Jewish studies Jay and undergraduate-education deanships Lori E. Gross M. Harris, who has chaired the Faculty of were consolidated; Harris now reports to On Other Campuses Arts and Sciences’ general-education College dean Evelynn M. Hammonds. Yale will increase undergraduate enroll- committee as new courses are introduced ment by about 15 percent, to 6,000, and to the undergraduate curriculum, has Law Largess will create two new residential colleges, been made responsible for the entire Col- Harvard Law School’s “Setting the Stan- expected to open in 2013, to accommodate lege course of study as the new dean of dard” capital campaign, launched in June the growth. It has raised the goal for its undergraduate education. Harris, who is 2003 (see “$400 Million for Law,” Septem- current capital campaign by $500 million, chair of the department of Near Eastern ber-October 2003, page 73), concluded on to $3.5 billion, to pay for the buildings and languages and civiliza- June 30, having “substantially exceeded” related growth in faculty, advisers, and tions, and master of its goal. Final figures were still being tal- support sta≠. Princeton has received a Cabot House, will now lied as this issue went to press; the cam- $100-million gift from alumnus (and Har- oversee general educa- paign will be formally celebrated in an vard M.B.A. ’54) Gerhard R. Andlinger to tion, freshman seminars, event on October 23. During the campaign, support research on energy and the envi- international programs, both faculty ranks and student financial ronment; it will fund a 110,000-square- writing, advising, and the aid have expanded significantly, the first- foot laboratory, faculty positions, and re- ROSE LINCOLN/HARVARD NEWS OFFICE Jay M. Harris Bok Center for Teaching year curriculum was reorganized (see “A search programs, anchoring a larger e≠ort

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CAMPUS CASUAL. Laptop? Check. Cell phone? Check. MP3 player? Check. And now, students gearing up for their autumn return to campus can stock up on a new variety of Harvard logowear, courtesy of the “Collegiate Collection” from the Victo- ria’s Secret PINK line. Although the 33 institutions participating are principally large state universities, Berkeley, Boston College, and UCLA were on the roster along with the Crimson. Shortly after the collection appeared on the PINK website, Har- vard items—properly licensed, the trademarks office assured, but for temporary of- fering only—disappeared, leaving only 32 schools’ stuff on display, and making browsers guess the identity of the missing institution. Harvard’s future participation is subject to “review of advertising and promotional materials.”

on energy and climate change. A $20-mil- expert on terrorism (see “Under- lion gift from another donor will fund a standing Terrorism,” January- new Princeton center to promote collabo- February 2002, page 36), has been Arts and Sciences’ ration among engineering and liberal-arts appointed prin- open-access pol- students. University of Pennsylvania cipal and vice icy on distrib- alumnus Jerome Fisher and his wife, Anne chancellor, the uting scholar- Fisher, have given $50 million for a center senior leadership post, of ly research (see for translational medical research. And the University of St. An- “Open Access,” the University of California, Berkeley drews, in Scotland, e≠ec- May-June, page has appointed a vice chancellor, previ- tive January 1. She is the 61); it may even- JON CHASE/HARVARD NEWS OFFICE ously global head of mergers and acquisi- Louise first woman to serve in tually serve the needs of all Har- tions at Citicorp, to lead public-private Richardson that capacity. vard’s faculties. Shieber was the lead partnerships and alliances that can sup- author of the policy proposal.…Bill Pur- Job guide’s new job.

port that institution’s research in an era of William Wright- cell, mayor of Nashville, Tennessee, from ©VICTORIA’S SECRET declining government budgetary support. Swadel, director of the O∞ce of Career 1999 to 2007, has been appointed director Services since 1995, has been appointed to of the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Nota Bene the equivalent post at Duke University. At Kennedy School; he succeeds former Humanities head. Rothenberg professor Harvard, he oversaw career counseling, congressman James A. of the humanities Homi K. Bhabha has preprofessional and fellowship advising, Leach, who served as in- been appointed senior adviser on the hu- employer recruiting, and internship pro- terim director during the manities, working with the president grams for students associated with the past academic year.… and provost—a new position. As direc- Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ schools. The Berkman Center tor of the Humanities Center, within the for Internet & Society, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (www. Miscellany. Diplomat and author ( founded and based at The HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr), Bhabha has Places in Between, on Afghanistan, and Prince Harvard Law School as a Bill Purcell promoted interdisciplinary discussion of the Marshes, on Iraq) Rory Stewart has locus for research, has involving subjects ranging from medicine been appointed director of the Carr Cen- been elevated to University-wide status as (ethics, caring) to law (mercy) and ter- ter for Human Rights Policy (www.hks.- an interfaculty initiative (http://cyber. rorism—a role he expects to sustain at harvard.edu/cchrp), e≠ective January 1. He law.harvard.edu).…Brian C. Kenny, previ- both the center and in his new capacity. is currently based in Kabul, where he op- ously of Northeastern University and The erates a nonprofit organization.…Glaxo- Monitor Group, has been appointed chief St. andrews steward. Radcli≠e Institute SmithKline and the Harvard Stem Cell marketing and communications o∞cer executive dean Louise Richardson, an Institute (www.hsci.harvard.edu) have at Harvard Business School.…Harvard reached a five-year, $25-mil- Medalist and benefactor Katherine Bog- ICE-CREAM ICON. lion agreement to pursue re- danovich Loker, L.H.D. ’00, whose gifts Although John Harvard search at the University and underwrote renovation could be present only in spirit for President Drew a∞liated hospitals, exploring of the Widener Library Faust’s ice-cream social neurological, cardiac, and reading room, conversion for University staff other diseases.…Welch profes- of the Memorial Hall members on July 1, he sor of computer science Stu- basement into a student figured prominently in the electronic invitation art M. Shieber has been ap- “commons,” and restora- to the wildly popular pointed the first director of tion of Memorial Hall’s

event. Vice presidents KRIS SNIBBE/HARVARD NEWS OFFICE the O∞ce for Scholarly Com- tower, died June 26, at age Katherine were pressed into duty munication, the implement- 92; her husband, Bogdanovich as “celebrity scoopers” Donald Loker in Harvard Yard. ing body for the Faculty of P. Loker ’25, died in 1988. UNIVERSITY PLANNING OFFICE

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