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In this issue's John Harvard's Journal:
Summer in the City - Big and Little Digs - Lab Zappers vs. Yo Quiero Viagra - A Weekend on Women - Reinventing Radcliffe - Harvard Portrait: William P. Stoneman - A New Chief at Public Health - Foreign Affairs - Fogg Endorses Modernity - Going Home - Annals of Improbable Litigation - The Economics of Elms - A Roof Against the Rain - Brevia - The Undergraduate - Sports

Photographs by Jim Harrison; Watercolor by Dongik Lee

Big and Little Digs

The skeleton of the Maxwell-Dworkin Laboratory, below, took shape this summer on Oxford Street, one of several construction projects afoot. Funded by a gift from Microsoft's William H. Gates III '77 and Steven A. Ballmer '77 and named for their mothers, the building will be a state-of-the-art locus of computer sciences. Harvard's division of engineering and applied sciences, which encompasses computer sciences, got a new leader in July, Dean Venkatesh Narayanamurti (see Brevia), who will come east from California in September.

As ground broke (left) for the "Knuckle," three surrounding buildings covered their eyes with plywood. The new structure will link Converse Laboratory, shown here, with Mallinckrodt, on Oxford Street. Haruo Naito, chief executive officer of the Tokyo-based pharmaceutical firm Eisai Company, contributed more than $8 million to thus augment the facilities of the department of chemistry and chemical biology. The new space will permit the understaffed department to hire more faculty members.


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