Brevia Contract Theory and Cor- Overseers, Returns to Harvard Service, Porate Finance to Law and Effective July 1, As a Member of the Cor- Economics
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Corporation Headliner made contributions in di- Diana L. Nelson ’84, former vice chair of verse fields ranging from the executive committee of the Board of Brevia contract theory and cor- Overseers, returns to Harvard service, porate finance to law and effective July 1, as a member of the Cor- economics. Announcing poration. Her appointment, an- the appointment nounced in February, fills the in early March, SNIBBE/HPAC KRIS vacancy created when venture President Law- Oliver Hart capitalist James Breyer, M.B.A. ’87, rence S. Bacow stepped down at hailed Hart’s scholarship for the end of one having “not only deepened our six-year term last knowledge of economic theory June. Nelson was but also driven its application in a co-chair of The a range of contexts.” He succeeds Harvard Cam- William Julius Wilson, who re- HPAC paign (conclud- tired last September. Diana L. ed in 2018), and Nelson has co-chaired Faculty-Dean Departures her class reunions since 1994. A With the February announcement fine-arts concentrator, she is now that Xander University Professor president of the board of the San Douglas Melton and Gail O’Keefe Francisco Museum of Modern would conclude their service as El- Art. Until last summer, Nelson iot House faculty deans at the end served as chair of Carlson Inc., THE WASHINGTON POST of the academic year, Harvard Col- the travel-services conglomerate; lege dean Rakesh Khurana faces she will become chair of its parent searches for successor faculty company, Carlson Holdings, Inc., deans at five of the undergraduate in May. Read more at harvard- residences. The others are Cabot Martin Baron mag.com/nelson-corp-20. COURTESY OF RICKY CARIOTI/ (from which Khurana and his WOULD-BE HONORANDS. Before COVID-19 wife, Stephanie Ralston Khura- Admissions Lawsuit, Round 2 postponed the May 28 Commencement exercises, na, are stepping down), Kirkland, Harvard announced that its guest speaker, following the On February 18, Students for Fair morning exercises, would be Martin (“Marty”) Baron, Quincy, and Winthrop Houses. Admissions (SFFA) filed its brief executive editor of The Washington Post since 2013— appealing the district court rul- perhaps the nation’s leading AI, Ethics, CS ing in its case alleging that Har- newspaper journalist during an Harvard’s peers are ac- era of traumatic change within vard’s race-conscious, holistic the industry and of unprecedent- tively pursuing intellectual undergraduate admissions pol- ed attacks on journalism by and practical fields also of icy discriminates against Asian- leaders here and abroad. See lively interest here. Among harvardmag.com/baron-comm- American students. Judge Allison speaker-20 to learn more. The them, Stanford—intimate- D. Burroughs ruled in the Univer- following day, the Radcliffe Medal ly associated with Silicon sity’s favor last October, after an was to be conferred on Melinda Valley—has launched an extensive trial (see “Harvard’s Gates, co-founder of the Bill & Ethics, Society and Tech- Melinda Gates Foundation with Admissions Process Upheld,” her husband, Bill Gates ’77, LL.D. nology Integrative Hub to November-December 2019, page ’07 (co-founder of Microsoft). engage all its schools in 21). From the outset, the litigation The initial program and hon- exploring the ethical chal- has been seen as an attempt to get orand are detailed at harvard- lenges (privacy, bias, and mag.com/mgates-radcliffe-20. a case before the Supreme Court, Melinda Gates so on) associated with in- COURTESY OF THE BILL & MELINDA FOUNDATION GATES where the plaintiffs hope to se- novation. Its Institute for cure a decision outlawing consideration sequent appellate decision ensuing several Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, of race in admissions, so the appeal was months after. also new, is addressing these matters in expected. On February 25, the U.S. Depart- that rapidly developing, but contentious, ment of Justice filed an amicus brief sup- New University Professor field as well.…TheUniversity of Cali- porting SFFA, characterizing Harvard’s Oliver Hart, co-winner of the 2016 Nobel fornia, Berkeley, launching its $6-billion procedures as “illegal race discrimination.” Prize in economic sciences, has been ap- Light the Way campaign on February 29, The University’s response is due by May 14, pointed Geyser University Professor. A kick-started the effort by announcing an with oral argument, if granted, and a sub- member of the faculty since 1993, he has anonymous $252-million gift—the largest Harvard Magazine 23 Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 JOHN HARVARD'S JOURNAL in its history, and about half the funding and to launch new environmental-sciences Among the 15 schools that replied, only a sought to build, staff, and support a “Data and bioengineering facilities the following handful could provide estimates (the im- Hub,” its new home for its division of com- year—to be followed by renovated quarters plementing regulations for the tax are in- puting, data science, and society.…Union for computer science. The capital campaign complete); most foresaw assessments of $1 College, beginning a $300-million capital to pay for everything debuts this fall.…The million plus or minus. Since some of the campaign, announced a $51-million gift, the University of Virginia has committed to calculations are based on unrealized invest- largest in its history, from graduates Rich building 1,000 to 1,500 units of affordable ment gains, actual cash payments by Har- and Mary Templeton (he is chairman and housing during the next 10 years, with de- vard and Stanford, and presumably others, CEO of Texas Instruments), to create an velopment partners, on land it owns in and may not be due until future tax years. eponymous institute for engineering and around Charlottesville. computer science. Artist actor activist. Rubén Blades, Clinical Reach LL.M.’85, the salsa musician who has also On Other Campuses Harvard Law School has augmented its ros- acted in movies and televisions series, and Stanford alumnus John Arrillaga, a real- ter of 46 legal clinics and student practice ran for president of Panama estate developer and significant supporter organizations, announcing two new ones in 1994, has been named the of his alma mater, committed $55 million in February. The Voting Rights Litigation 2020 Harvard Arts Medal- to its school of medicine. The gift doubles and Advocacy Clinic—focusing on voter ist. He was scheduled to the financial aid available to students with suppression and redistricting, plus election be honored April 30, at the demonstrated need during the next decade, administration, campaign finance, ethics, beginning of the Arts First and will be combined with other resources and other pertinent issues—is led by lec- celebration, now a casualty COURTESY OF RUBÉN BLADES to eliminate medical-school debt for “quali- turer on law Ruth Greenwood and requires of coronavirus. Rubén Blades fied” incoming students.…Yale, in the quiet enrollment in “Election Law,” taught by phases of a capital campaign expected to professor of law Nicholas Stephanopoulos, AdMissions. The College admitted 1,980 of focus heavily on science, has begun plan- who joined the faculty in January from the 40,248 applicants to the class of 2024: 4.9 per- ning a new building devoted to quantum University of Chicago. On deck is the Reli- cent. And their nominal term bill (before finan- science, engineering, and materials re- gious Freedom Clinic, dedicated to action cial aid) will be $72,391—up 4 percent from search.…The University of Wisconsin- on cases involving the rights of vulnerable $69,607 this academic year. Details are avail- Madison received $70 million from alumni clients to practice their religion; according able at harvardmag.com/2024admits-20. and major donors John and Tashia (Frank- to HLS, it is modeled on Stanford’s Reli- wurth) Morgridge (he is the former chair- gious Liberty Clinic. AdaMs House update. The renewal of Adams man of Cisco Systems); it will be used, on House, complicated by its separate buildings a matching basis, to encourage further en- Nota Bene and narrow Cambridge streets, has now been dowment gifts to support faculty recruit- EndowMent taxes. A February Inside Higher extended. The original schedule called for ment and retention.…Princeton, already Education report on universities’ assessments work to begin in June 2019 and to conclude building two new residential colleges to for the excise tax on certain endowment before classes resume for the fall 2023 semes- expand undergraduate enrollment, has investment income, enacted in late 2017, ter (see harvardmag.com/adams-renew- announced plans to construct a new uni- indicated that Stanford’s estimated $42.9 al-19). Based on the work already under way, versity art museum beginning next spring, million obligation is roughly comparable and Greater Boston’s tight construction mar- to Harvard’s ket—workers are in short supply—comple- estimated $37 tion has now been extended to August 2024. million levy The huge Eliot-Kirkland House renewals, an during fis- especially complicated and costly undertak- cal year 2019. ing, have not yet been planned or scheduled. CAPITAL-PROJECT COMPENDIUM. The University planning office’s annual “Town Gown Report” to Cambridge for 2019 documents the continuing renewal of Adams House (now scheduled for completion by the fall 2024 term); the Divinity School’s Swartz (née Andover) Hall renovation and expansion (delivery in early 2021); Houghton Library; and, shown here, the renovation and skyward extension (a fifth floor) for the Law School’s HARVARD MAGAZINE Lewis International Law Center. (That school’s decanal residence, on Irving Street, is also getting a makeover.) On deck is renovating and expanding Gund Hall (home to the Graduate School of Design), for which planning continues—plus, ultimately, renewal of Eliot and Kirkland KRISTINA DEMICHELE/ Houses, for which planning apparently has not yet begun.