Laureate Septet Avenue building will be renovated and Seven alumni have been honored with expanded; the roughly $21­million proj­ 2011 Nobel Prizes. Ralph M. Stein- Brevia ect will, consistent with the center’s mis­ man, M.D. ’68, of Rockefeller Univer­ sion, incorporate green design elements sity, shared the prize in physiology or including vegetated walls, terraces, and medicine, for fundamental work on the surroundings. When finished, it will immune system; tragically, he suc­ provide 25 apartments, plus social cumbed to pancreatic cancer on and exhibition spaces for the fel­ September 30, three days before lows—far better than the amenities the award was announced. Three now offered. Ziolkowski hopes the cosmologists shared the physics project will help enhance the fel­ prize for discoveries concerning lowship programs, as well, reflect­ the accelerating expansion of the ing new scholarly opportunities in universe, based on measurements all three areas of Dumbarton Oaks’ using supernovae (exploding expertise, at a time when support stars): Saul Perlmutter ’81, profes­ for research in such humanistic sor of physics at University of Cali­ fields is increasingly scarce. fornia, Berkeley; Brian P. Schmidt, Ph.D. ’93, of the Australian Nation­ Library Overseer al University; and Adam G. Riess, Mary Lee Kennedy, formerly exec­ Ph.D. ’96, professor of astronomy utive director of knowledge and li­ and physics at Johns Hopkins. Li­ brary services at Harvard Business berian president Ellen Johnson School (HBS), is now senior associ­ Sirleaf, M.P.A. ’71, LL.D. ’11, shared ate provost for the Harvard Library, the peace prize for her advocacy to oversee the libraries’ transition of women’s rights. And Thomas J. to more coordinated operations, Sargent, Ph.D. ’68, of the Hoover as recommended by the University Institution and Berkley professor DIVINITY DEAN’S DENOUEMENT. Libraries task force last year (see of economics and business at NYU, and Harvard Divinity School dean William “Unifying Harvard’s Libraries,” harvard- doctoral classmate Christopher A. Sims A. Graham will step down at the end mag.com/library-structure-2010). She is of this academic year, concluding a ’63, Ph.D. ’68, Helm professor of econom­ decade of service (he began serving as responsible for strategy and policy; Har­ ics and banking at Princeton, shared the acting dean in January 2002). After a vard Library executive director Helen prize in economics. For details, see har- year’s leave, he will resume teaching Shenton will report to her. As part of vardmag.com/economics-nobel-prize. as a Distinguished Service Professor. the new structure, the libraries are being Graham, a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 1973, has been grouped into five affinity groups, each of University Professors director of the Center for Middle East- which will share services; see harvard- President Drew Faust has appointed two ern Studies, master of Currier House, mag.com/library-structure-2011. University Professors, Harvard’s highest and chair of both the department of Near Eastern languages and civiliza- faculty rank. Rebecca M. Henderson, tions and the committee on the study On Other Campuses who joined Harvard Business School in of religion. His scholarly work focuses Carnegie Mellon University trustee 2009 and examines businesses, energy, on early Islamic religious history and William S. Dietrich II, past president the history of world religion. More and the environment, becomes McArthur than half the school’s current faculty and chairman of Dietrich Industries, has University Professor (see Harvard Por­ members were appointed during Gra- pledged a $265­million gift to the school trait, opposite), succeeding Nobel laure­ ham’s deanship; he also oversaw revi- (effective upon his death)—about one­ ate Robert C. Merton, who retired in sions of the school’s degree programs. quarter of the current endowment. The 2010. Stem­cell pioneer Douglas Melton funds, according to President Jared L. (he co­chairs the department of stem cell Library and Collection, in Washington, Conlon, enable discretionary spend­ and regenerative biology, and co­directs D.C., has purchased a building near its ing that can be directed however the the Harvard Stem Cell Institute), the existing campus in which it will be able university thinks most important. master of Eliot House, is the first Xander to house its scholarly fellows who are Dietrich, a Princeton alumnus, earned his University Professor. The identity of the pursuing studies in Byzantine, Pre­Co­ Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, new chair’s donor has not been disclosed. lumbian, and garden and landscape stud­ where he chaired the board of trust­ ies (see “Home of the Humanities,” May­ ees—to which he subsequently pledged Dumbarton Oaks Domiciles June 2008, page 48). Porter professor of $125 million.…The University of Chicago Fulfilling a long­term programmatic Medieval Latin Jan Ziolkowski, who di­ and that city’s mayor, Rahm Emanuel, in ambition, Dumbarton Oaks Research rects the center, says that the Wisconsin August signed a memorandum of under­ Photograph by Justin Knight Harvard Magazine 59 JOHN HARVARD'S JOURNAL standing that will expedite public infra­ proaches to Middle Eastern Studies,” and explored Afro­Indian communities in structure investments in and regulatory four other half­courses. It had previously Colonial America. approvals for university development in been available to graduate students. its Hyde Park neighborhood and envi­ Miscellany. James H. Waldo, McKay pro­ rons; the agreement covers the univer­ BGLTQ staff and office. The College, fessor of the practice of computer science, sity’s $1.7­billion capital plan for the next adopting recommendations from a work­ has been named Harvard’s chief technol­ five years.…Yale began the new academic ing group last spring, has appointed Lisa ogy officer; he will lead the creation of year by completing renovation of Ezra Forest as the first director of bisexual, technology standards and practice and Stiles, the last of its dozen undergradu­ gay, lesbian, transgender, and question­ be responsible for the architecture and ate residential houses to be refurbished ing (BGLTQ) student life. Forest had implementation of University systems. He during a 13­year­long effort that required been in a similar position at Bridgewater was for many years distinguished engineer an investment of a half­billion dollars, State University. Emily J. Miller, a mem­ at Sun Microsystems and also worked at adjusted for inflation, according to the ber of the working group who is pursu­ Apollo Computer and VMWare.…Har- Yale Daily News. Separately, Yale agreed in ing a master’s at the Divinity School, will vard School of Public Health (HSPH) September to host an Air Force ROTC be graduate assistant for BGLTQ student received a five­year, $10­million grant from on campus, joining the Naval ROTC unit life. Offices and a lounge space for the the National Cancer Institute to explore that it had earlier announced would be group are being readied in Boylston Hall the relationship between obesity and can­ based there. And it unveiled a $25­million for early next semester. cer; Penn, University of California, San gift to fund a multidisciplinary Energy Diego, and Washington University are Sciences Institute; the laboratory, and Macarthur fellows. Three faculty mem­ undertaking similar work as part of the several new professors, will explore clean bers and two alumnae have been award­ $45­million initiative. Professor of nutri­ technologies and solar­based fuels. ed $500,000, unrestricted tion and epidemiology Frank Hu is prin­ MacArthur Foundation cipal investigator for the Harvard research Nota Bene fellowships: Beren profes­ (see “The Deadliest Sin,” March­April Middle eastern studies. The department sor of economics Roland 2004, page 36, on his work on exercise of Near Eastern languages and civiliza- Fryer Jr., best known for and health). Separately, HSPH received a tions (www.nelc.fas.harvard.edu) has work on school perfor­ $12­million, five­year grant from the Bill unveiled a secondary field in modern Mid­ mance and reform; asso­ OFFICE NEWS CHASE/HARVARD JON & Melinda Gates Foundation to improve dle Eastern studies, embracing humani­ ciate professor of physics Markus maternal health in developing countries; ties and social sciences, for undergradu­ Markus Greiner, who Greiner professor of the practice of public health ates concentrating in other disciplines. It works with ultracold atoms; and pro­ Ana Langer will direct the initiative.…Da- requires a gateway course, NEC 100, “Ap­ fessor of psychology Matthew Nock vid P. Davidson, interim leader of dining (whose work on suicide and self­injury operations on campus since the depar­ was profiled in “A Tragedy and a Mys­ ture of Ted Mayer last summer, has been tery,” January­February named his successor as managing director 2011, page 32); Jeanne of University dining services.…Acclaimed Gang, M.Arch. ’93, found­ cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76, D.Mus. ’91, the prin­ er of Studio Gang Archi­ cipal guest performer at Harvard’s 375th tects, an acclaimed firm anniversary celebration on October 14, in Chicago; and Univer­ has been named a 2011 Kennedy Center sity of Michigan historian FOUNDATION MACARTHUR honoree. The ceremony is scheduled for Tiya Miles ’92, who has Tiya Miles December 4. Actress Meryl Streep, Ar.D. ’10, will also be honored. TATA ON TRACK. Harvard Business School’s new executive-education build- ing, Tata Hall—designed by William Rawn Associates and named for Ratan Tata, who attended the Advanced Management Program in 1975, and whose companies and philanthropic trusts made a $50-mil- lion naming gift in the fall of 2010—has been approved by the Boston Redevelop- ment Authority. Located on the north- east corner of campus, by McArthur Hall and Soldiers Field Road, the $100-million facility will contain classrooms and resi- dential space. Groundbreaking is planned in December, with occupancy in 2013.