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Class notes and obituaries May-June 2013

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Compact apartments are proliferating in the United States. Here, artist’s renderings show how the MMNY micro-units, prefabricated in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and shipped to the East 27th Street building site, will be stacked atop each other like Lego bricks.

“My Micro NY” units were created by three Harvard GSD alumni

With micro-units, three GSD alumni hope to revolutionize apartment living in New York City.

by Laura Levis

Instrument designer Andrew Szentgyorgyi illustrates the prism technology for the GMT’s high-resolution spectrograph.

Harvard Astronomers Searching for Earth-like Exoplanets

The Giant Magellan Telescope could help spot life outside our solar system.

Harvard fundraising needs and competition

The University approaches a public fundraising drive

The beginning of Thomas’s entry in the Class of 1838’s Class Book (Harvard University Archives, HUD 238.714)

Memoir of "Lighthouse Thomas," A.B. 1838: from a hole in the ground to Harvard

From a hole in the ground to Harvard

Filmmaker Julie Mallozzi intercut scenes of Lalita Bharvani at home, tending to her garden or doing yoga, with startling images of x-rays and medical tests, including an echocardiogram. One poignant scene shows Bharvani visiting her elderly mother in India.

Julie Mallozzi's film Indelible Lalita tells a medical and spiritual story

Indelible Lalita’s saga of pigmentation and personhood

by Laura Levis

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Scientists Test Effect of Human Gene in Mouse

Scientists probe the function of a human gene by observing its effects in a mouse.

Nancy Sinsabaugh and Salmagundi proprietor Jessen Fitzpatrick display the “ladies top hat.”

New top hats for ladies at Harvard Commencement

New top hats for women appear at Commencement

by Nell Porter-Brown

Winter aerial views of the Harvard Art Museums project; the glass crown joins old and new sections.

Campus construction at Harvard focus on the Fogg Art Museum

A sidewalk-superintendent’s report

Photograph by Jon Chase/Harvard News Office

Commencement and reunion week 2013 at Harvard

Commencement and reunion week 2013 at Harvard

Harvard 2013 Commencement details

Instructions for degree candidates and others