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Students at the Summit Less Common App? Three students have been awarded Although most college applicants are fa- Rhodes Scholarships for study at Oxford Brevia miliar with the conveniences and incon- University. Ruth Fong ’15, a computer- veniences of the Common Application science concentrator from Somerset, (which failed to function during long parts New Jersey, and Mather House, and Ben- of the 2013 application season), a group jamin Sprung-Keyser of selective-admission ’15, an economics con- private institutions, in- centrator from Los cluding Harvard, Yale, Angeles and Kirkland and Prince ton, and elite House, won Ameri- public universities have can Rhodes honors. solicited proposals for Friederike “Fritzi” a substitute online ap- Reuter ’14, an econom- plication system. The ics concentrator and solicitation, reported by former Lowell House The Chronicle of Higher Edu- resident now working cation, noted both the in Boston, won a Ger- desire to have a system man Rhodes. Michael when “another applica- George ’14 (’15), a gov- tion mode experiences NICATIONS ernment concentrator difculties or system MMU O C from Los Baños, La- /HPAC failure,” and interest in LL SEAS guna, The Philippines, / a new option for insti- LL ITCHE and Quincy House, and M tutions seeking to tai- INNE senior Anna Hagen, R lor their processes for

David T. Ellwood Cherry A. Murray G IZA an English concentra- STEPHANIE EL enrolling “the very best tor from Brooklyn and DEPARTING DEANS. David T. Ellwood, dean of the and most diverse fresh- Lowell House, have won Mar- Harvard Kennedy School since mid 2004 (preceding man classes they can.” Drew Faust’s presidency), intends to step down at the shall Scholarships. He plans to end of this academic year. The longest-serving current study at the London School of dean is relinquishing his role with the school’s $500-mil- Admissions Suit Economics and at Oxford; she lion capital campaign more than 70 percent funded, and The Project on Fair Representa- will study at Cambridge and after unveiling ambitious plans to expand and integrate tion, which earlier solicited for its campus. Following a sabbatical year, Ellwood will the Royal Academy of Dramatic return to teaching and research; he joined the faculty in plaintifs to challenge admissions Art. 1980. Somewhat surprisingly, Cherry A. Murray, dean procedures at Harvard, the Uni- of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences versity of North Carolina, and the Crimson-Blue Collaboration (SEAS) since mid 2009, announced in late October that University of Wisconsin, followed she would relinquish the post at the end of 2014, to Computer Science 50, “Intro- return to regular service on the faculty. She, too, left on through, filing suits against the duction to Computer Science,” a high note, as a campaign gift funded a 50 percent first two institutions. It repre- which attracted the largest Col- expansion of SEAS’s computer- sents “highly qualified students science faculty (see page 28). lege enrollment during the fall Gordon McKay professor of recently denied admission,” pro- term (and which in its online computer science Harry R. Lewis spective applicants, and their par- version attracts tens of thou- will serve as interim dean, ents, claiming in Harvard’s case sands of students), is adding a beginning January 1. A search is that the University discriminates under way for Murray’s successor, NICATIONS venue: Yale has approved ofer- who will deal with much more MMU against Asian-American appli- O C ing a version, using broadcast fundraising, and with relocating cants and confers racial preferenc- SEAS lectures and on-campus teach- two-thirds of the SEAS faculty to / es on white, African-American, new facilities in Allston later in LL

ing assistants in New Haven, INNE and Hispanic applicants. The

the decade. For full reports, see R and Harvard has agreed. McKay harvardmag.com/ellwood-15, project is generally opposed to IZA G IZA professor of the practice of com- harvardmag.com/murray-15, and EL diversity practices upheld in the puter science David J. Malan, harvardmag.com/lewis-15. Harry R. Lewis Supreme Court’s ruling in Regents the course’s charismatic in- of the University of California v. Bakke, structor, signaled the approval by post- rarity in higher education despite the which was based in significant measure ing a road-trip video from Cambridge emergence of online teaching, a highly on Harvard’s admissions procedures. Se- to New Haven on the course home page. acclaimed professor and course, and the nior vice president and general counsel Fun aside, this is an interesting experi- intense demand for instruction in this Robert Iuliano responded to the lawsuit ment in pedagogical collaboration—a field. in a statement, noting that “the College

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considers each applicant through an in- sal coverage by 2025.…Brown University materials science; Graham T. Allison Jr., dividualized, holistic review having the has announced BrownConnect, to make Dillon professor of government; Helen goal of creating a vibrant academic com- internships, research opportunities, and Hardacre, Reischauer Institute profes- munity that exposes students to a wide- associated funding available to all fresh- sor of Japanese religions and society; range of diferences: background, ideas, men, sophomores, and juniors—particu- Amy Hempel, senior lec- experiences, talents and aspirations. larly those from low-income families. turer on English; Vicki The University’s admissions processes C. Jackson, Marshall /HPAC

remain fully compliant with all legal re- Financing Figures professor of constitu- LL

quirements and are essential to the peda- John Morgridge and Tashia Morgridge tional law; Jill Lepore, ITCHE M gogical objectives that underlie Harvard’s have given $100 million to the University Kemper professor of educational mission.” of Wisconsin-Madison, the largest gift American history; Ann in its history, to encourage donations Marie Lipinski, cura- STEPHANIE Ann Marie On Other Campuses for new and enhanced professorships.… tor, Nieman Foundation Lipinski Yale has opened the Yale Center Beijing, Berkshire Hathaway executive Charles for Journalism; Alvin F. a university-wide teaching and research T. Munger, a major supporter of the Uni- Poussaint, professor of psychiatry; Ber- facility, somewhat like Harvard’s center versity of Michigan, his alma mater, has nardo L. Sabatini, Moorhead professor in Shanghai, and introduced a dual-de- given $65 million to the Kavli Institute of neurobiology; and Sarah E. Thomas, gree program between its School of For- for Theoretical Physics at the University vice president for the Harvard Library estry and Environmental Studies and of California, Santa Barbara. and Larsen librarian. Tsinghua University, also in Beijing.… SOHO China Foundation, which sur- Nota Bene Medicine men and women. Among the 70 prised Harvard with a $15-million fund Biomedical innovators. The National In- new members of the Institute of Medi- for scholarships for low-income Chinese stitutes of Health has recognized these re- cine elected in October are: Elliot L. students (see Brevia, November-Decem- searchers under its high risk-high reward Chaikof, Johnson and Johnson professor ber 2014, page 33), has now given Yale program, which provides each honorand of surgery; E. Antonio Chiocca, Cush- $10 million for the same purpose.…En- five years of research funding: Ethan Gar- ing professor of neurosurgery; Todd R. gaged Cornell, which aims to combine ner, assistant professor of molecular and Golub, professor of pediatrics; Bradley T. undergraduate classroom learning with cellular biology, New Innovator Award, Hyman, Penney profes- hands-on experiences, has begun fund- for investigating the bacterial cell wall; sor of neurology; Paula ing course development; it plans univer- Chenghua Gu, associate professor of A. Johnson, professor of neurobiology, Pioneer medicine and of epidemi- Award, for studying ology; Meredith Rosen- DE/HPAC

PASSAGES FROM INDIA. Harvard University Press has I introduced the Murty Classical Library of India (www. the blood-brain barrier; thal, professor of health STIN STIN U murtylibrary.com), presenting modern editions of Alison L. Hill, post- economics and policy; J important literary texts, spanning multiple languages doctoral fellow, Early Margaret A. Shipp, pro- Bruce M. (among them, Bangla, Hindi, Persian, Sanskrit, Tamil, Spiegelman and Urdu), with facing-page English translations. (See Independence Award, fessor of medicine; and Brevia, July-August 2010, page 65, for more on the for exploring computa- Bruce M. Spiegelman, Korsmeyer profes- library’s creation.) The general editor is Sheldon Pollock tional tools to help find sor of cell biology and medicine. ’71, Ph.D. ’75, Raghunathan professor of South Asian a cure for HIV/AIDS; studies at Columbia. The series, begun with publication of fve initial volumes in January, complements the famous and Donna Spiegelman, Miscellany. Madero professor for the Loeb Greek and Latin texts; professor of epide- study of Mexico Jorge I. Domínguez, the the I Tatti Renaissance miologic methods, vice provost for international afairs, will Library; and the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library Pioneer Award, for relinquish that post in June, concluding (launched in 2010). pursuing efective a decade of service, to return to full-time public-health in- teaching and research.…New Yorker staf terventions. writer Evan Osnos ’98 won the National Book Award in nonfiction for his first In the academy. book, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, Harvard afliates and Faith in the New China (reviewed in the inducted into the July-August 2014 issue).…Harvard’s reno- American Acad- vated Bright-Landry Hockey Center now emy of Arts and features Boynton Lounge, a concourse- Sciences in Octo- level, members-only hospitality room with ber include: Joanna a “variety of first-class amenities,” includ- Aizenberg, Ber- ing HDTVs and a fireplace, plus bufet and ylson professor of cash bar; season memberships cost $350.

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