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V DEVELOPMENT NEWS Radcliffe on the Road V Events Online to tenured professor of law at Harvard Law School, where he is also a codirector of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. He is one of the world’s leading experts on the intersection of bioethics and the law and on health law. Jacqueline Bhabha is the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, the director of research at the Harvard School of Public Health’s François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, and an adjunct lecturer on public policy at Harvard Kennedy School. She is also the advisor on human rights education to the provost of Harvard University. The Universe: Past, Present, and Future new york city feryal özel phd ’02, ri ’13 and paul steinhardt am ’75, phd ’78, ri ’13 gave a tour of the universe’s history. The big bang, marking the beginning of the universe, is thought to have occurred about 14 billion years ago. Özel focused on the period of star and galaxy formation, from six million to nine billion years ago, and Steinhardt discussed the earlier and later periods. Özel showed simulations—created by her team at the University of Arizona—of how galaxies form, a process about which scientists have a good understanding. Steinhardt discussed why the period of galaxy formation came to an end. “What happened is that a new form of energy overtook the universe,” he said. Dark matter and ordinary matter (which we’re made of) self-attract, but dark energy pushes away from other bits of energy. About 15 years ago, scientists discovered that most energy does the same thing. “We are the minority,” he said. “Seventy percent of the stuff in the universe gravitationally repels.” This helps “promote the expansion of the universe, causing it to speed up in its expansion, whereas if the universe were composed mostly of us and dark matter, you’d have the opposite effect. The universe would have been slowing down in its expansion.” When dark energy took over, about four billion years ago, matter couldn’t cluster fast enough to form any more galaxies. Özel is an associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Arizona. Steinhardt—who held the Lillian Gollay Knafel Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute—is a theoretical physicist whose research ranges from the origin, evolution, and future of the universe to new states of matter. He is the director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science and the Albert Einstein Professor in Science at Princeton University, where he is also on the faculty of the departments of physics and of astrophysical sciences. Transatlantic Connections london Radcliffe on the Road held its fi rst international gathering in London in mid-June. Three recent Radcliffe fellows whose work makes connections with Great Britain or Europe met with Radcliffe alumnae/i and friends at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. margot livsey ri ’13, who held an Evelyn Green Davis Fellowship at Radcliffe, grew up in a boys’ private school in the Scottish Highlands and is the author of seven novels. She discussed her work on a novel set in New England. stephen mann ri ’12, a professor of chemistry and a principal of the Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials at the University of Bristol, talked about working in transatlantic scientific communities. He was Radcliffe’s Lillian Gollay Knafel Fellow. diane mcwhorter ri ’12 discussed her work on one of World War II’s most famous Nazi rocket scientists and his ultimate rise to fame in the US space program. McWhorter held a Mildred Londa Weisman Fellowship at Radcliffe. 3 Author Diane McWhorter, left, spoke about her book in progress, while Leah Joy Zell ’71, AM ’72, PhD ’79 introduced Dean Lizabeth CHRIS GLOAG Anson Chan: Charting a Course Toward Democracy The director John Tiffany RI ’11 discussed The Glass Menagerie with the A.R.T.’s artistic director, Diane Paulus ’88, while Dean Lizabeth Cohen moderated. → to read about their conversation, visit www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/ news/in-news/director-john-tiffany- talks-about-artistic-process. Known for her outspoken commitment to democracy, Anson Chan, a former chief secretary for administration of the Hong Kong special administrative region, noted that relations between the United States and China are deepening. → to watch the video, visit www. radcliffe.harvard.edu/video/my- country-my-hopes. → to read coverage, visit www. radcliffe.harvard.edu/news/in-news/ anson-chan-charting-course-towarddemocracy. TONY RINALDO Save the Date “Jane Franklin’s Spectacles, or the Education of Benjamin Franklin’s Sister” Lecture by Jill Lepore BI ’00, the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History, Harvard College Professor, chair of History and Literature Program, and staff writer at the New Yorker Sept. 10, 5 PM, Sheerr Room, Fay House 34 radcliffe magazine Summer 2013
V NEWSMAKERS Radcliffe Affiliates Making their Mark | Edited by Ivelisse Estrada ROMUALD KARMAKAR RI ’13 is one of five artists representing Germany at the Venice Biennale. This installation view of the German pavillion shows two of his videos flanking Ai Weiwei’s contribution, Bang. ROMAN MENSING TONY RINALDO ROSE LINCOLN/HARVARD STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER honor roll kate soper ri ’13 was awarded a 2013 Goddard Lieberson Fellowship in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In March, andrea r. nahmod ri ’10, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, was named a Simons Fellow in Mathematics. The fellowship supports a research leave from classroom teaching. Nahmod will pursue ongoing research on nonlinear partial differential equations at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with gigliola staffilani ri ’10. They previously collaborated during their fellowship year. jane roland martin ’51, edm ’56, phd ’61, bi ’81 received the 2013 Outstanding Achievement Award from the John Dewey Society for the Study of Education and Culture at its national meeting in San Francisco in April. Martin, a professor of philosophy, emerita, at the University of Massachusetts Boston, has previously been awarded fellowships from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. Radcliffe’s presence was substantial when the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced its 2013 fellowships. Fellowships were awarded to jennifer cole ri ’04, professor of comparative human development, University of Chicago; barbara hammer ri ’02, independent filmmaker; major jackson ri ’07, poet and Richard Dennis Green and Gold Professor of English, University of Vermont; catherine lutz phd ’80, ri ’08, Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of Anthropology and International Studies, Brown University; patricia mcanany bi ’00, Kenan Eminent Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; leah price ’91, ri ’07, professor of English, Harvard University; brenda shaughnessy ri ’01, poet and assistant professor of English and creative writing, Rutgers University; and sheila silver bi ’78, composer and professor of music, Stony Brook University. priyamvada natarajan ri ’09, a professor of astronomy at Yale University, has been elected to an honorary professorship for life at the University of Delhi. She says she is honored to be in the same league as Amartya Sen and the Dalai Lama. lisa saltzman am ’91, phd ’94, ri ’03 was awarded a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2012–2013 Clark Fellowship. These are supporting her research and writing of a new book, Daguerreotypes: Fugitive Subjects, Summer 2013 radcliffe magazine 35
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