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In late March, Harvard President Drew Faust traveled to Chile and Brazil to highlight the University’s engagement with Latin America. In Brazil, she reconnected with alumni, and exchanged ideas with the leaders of local universities. She met with Brazilian students who have studied alongside Harvard students or with Harvard faculty in Brazil. (Spotlight on Harvard in Brazil)
While in Chile, Faust met with government and academic leaders to get a firsthand look at the tangible benefits of Harvard research. She visited early childhood education programs in public schools and participated in a symposium organized by Harvard faculty, government leaders, and the heads of nongovernmental organizations involved in Chile’s earthquake reconstruction efforts. (Spotlight on Harvard in Chile)
“I feel fortunate to be here today to help introduce the next stage of what had already been a strong and mutually beneficial partnership between Harvard and Chile,” Faust said. “I share the hope that by working in close concert, we can better understand the public health and mental health issues arising from devastating natural disasters; that we can consider design solutions that will limit the damage done by future disasters; and that we can carry forward efforts on various fronts to advance the reconstruction efforts here in Chile.”
In the poem “In the wave-strike over unquiet stones,” Chilean writer Pablo Neruda wrote about a special spirit of renewal that is expressed in the natural landscape:
In the wave-strike over unquiet stones
the brightness bursts and bears the rose
and the ring of water contracts to a cluster
to one drop of azure brine that falls.
O magnolia radiance breaking in spume,
magnetic voyager whose death flowers
and returns, eternal, to being and nothingness:
shattered brine, dazzling leap of the ocean.
Merged, you and I, my love, seal the silence
while the sea destroys its continual forms,
collapses its turrets of wildness and whiteness,
because in the weft of those unseen garments
of headlong water, and perpetual sand,
we bear the sole, relentless tenderness.
1 March 20, 2011. Harvard President Drew Faust speaks at the Harvard Club of Chile dinner in the Grand Ballroom at the Ritz-Carlton in Santiago, Chile. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
2 March 20, 2011. Harvard President Drew Faust (from left) talks with Rodrigo Ravilet, M.B.A. ’03; Diana Huidobro, Harvard Extension School Certificate in Management ’06; and Matias Rivera ’08 during a reception before the Harvard Club of Chile dinner in the Ritz-Carlton, Santiago, Chile. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
3 Harvard President Drew Faust visits Liceo Carmela Carvajal for a roundtable discussion with students Paloma Galvez (from left), Tamara Pérez, Shenoa Clermont, Javiera Castro, and Cecile Olguín (back shown) in Santiago, Chile. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
4 March 21, 2011. Harvard President Drew Faust (left) visits Liceo Carmela Carvajal in Chile for a discussion with young women there. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
5 March 21, 2011. Tamara Pérez (from left), Shenoa Clermont, and Cecile Olguín talk to Harvard President Drew Faust (not pictured) at the Liceo Carmela Carvajal in Chile during the president’s visit to their school. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
6 March 21, 2011. A guard stands by Chilean and American national flags at the entrance of La Moneda Palace on the day that United States President Barack Obama visited Chilean President Sebastián Piñera. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
7 March 21, 2011. Harvard President Drew Faust (center) and Chilean President Sebastián Piñera (right) meet inside the La Moneda Palace in Santiago, Chile. On the left is Joaquín José Lavín Infante, minister of education of Chile. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
8 March 21, 2011. Harvard President Drew Faust (left) visits Chilean President Sebastian Piñera inside La Moneda Palace in Santiago, Chile. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
9 March 21, 2011. Harvard President Drew Faust views a painting of José Joaquín Pérez Mascayano (May 6, 1801-July 1, 1889), who served as the president of Chile between 1861 and 1871, and his wife, Tránsito Flores de la Cavareda, inside La Moneda Palace. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
10 March 21, 2011. Harvard President Drew Faust (from left) meets with Mary Espada ’12, Sam French ’12 (background), and other Harvard students during a visit to the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies’ regional office in Santiago, Chile. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
11 March 21, 2011. Alicia Barcena Ibarra (from left), executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL); Harvard President Drew Faust; and Andrés Benitez Pereira, rector at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, discuss liberal arts education during a lunch with Chilean university presidents. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
12 March 21, 2011. Harvard President Drew Faust visits a classroom that is part of the Un Buen Comienzo program in Santiago, Chile. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
13 March 21, 2011. Children sing for Harvard President Drew Faust (not pictured) during her visit to a classroom that is part of the Un Buen Comienzo program in Santiago, Chile. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
14 March 21, 2011. Maria Cristina Valenzuela (left) and her class welcome Harvard President Drew Faust. The classroom is part of the Un Buen Comienzo program in Santiago, Chile. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
15 March 21, 2011. During the official launch of the Luksic Fellowship in Santiago, Chile, David Ellwood, dean of the Harvard Kennedy School and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy, thanks Paola Luksic. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
16 March 21, 2011. Chileans gather outside La Moneda Palace on the day that United States President Barack Obama visited Chilean President Sebastián Piñera. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
17 March 21, 2011. Barack Obama (from left), the 44th president of the United States, speaks with Cecilia Morel Montes de Piñera, the first lady of Chile and sociocultural area director of the presidency, and Harvard President Drew Faust inside La Moneda Palace in Santiago, Chile. Photo courtesy of La Moneda Palace ∞
18 March 21, 2011. Chileans gather outside La Moneda Palace on the day that United States President Barack Obama visited Chilean President Sebastián Piñera. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
19 March 22, 2011. David Ellwood, dean of the Harvard Kennedy School and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy, displays an image of the hole in the ozone layer around the Earth during the presentation “What More Can Harvard University Do To Add Value to the Earthquake Reconstruction Process One Year After the Disaster?” The talk was part of the ENLACE Earthquake Reconstruction Project. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
20 March 22, 2011. Harvard President Drew Faust speaks during the discussion “What More Can Harvard University Do To Add Value to the Earthquake Reconstruction Process One Year After the Disaster?” The talk was part of the ENLACE Earthquake Reconstruction Project. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
21 March 22, 2011. Participants leaving an ENLACE Earthquake Reconstruction Project discussion pass by a statue of Jesus. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
22 March 22, 2011. Aerial view of São Paulo, Brazil. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
23 March 23, 2011. A street vendor in São Paulo, Brazil. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
24 March 23, 2011. Jorge Paulo Lemann ’61 (center), chairman and co-founder of Fundação Estudar, and Harvard President Drew Faust (right) attend the Lemann Fellows opening session of “Fundação Estudar Presents Harvard in Brazil.” Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
25 March 23, 2011. Jorge Paulo Lemann ’61, chairman and co-founder of Fundação Estudar, speaks at the Lemann Fellows opening session of “Fundação Estudar Presents Harvard in Brazil.” Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
26 March 23, 2011. During a private tour, Harvard President Drew Faust (right) looks at paintings in the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo Museum with curator Carlos Martins. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
27 March 23, 2011. Harvard President Drew Faust looks at paintings in the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo Museum. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
28 March 23, 2011. During a private tour, Harvard President Drew Faust (left) looks at paintings in the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo Museum with curator Carlos Martins. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
29 March 23, 2011. Harvard President Drew Faust visits the Mercado Municipal Market in São Paulo, Brazil. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
30 March 23, 2011. View of the Mercado Municipal Market in São Paulo, Brazil. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
31 March 23, 2011. Jaissa Feliz ’12 (left) and Harvard President Drew Faust talk after the Harvard Club of Brazil dinner at the Lemann residence in São Paulo, Brazil. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
32 March 23, 2011. Jorge Paulo Lemann ’61 (left), chairman and co-founder of Fundação Estudar, and James F. Rothenberg ’68, M.B.A. ’70, Harvard’s treasurer, talk after the Harvard Club of Brazil dinner at the Lemann residence in São Paulo, Brazil. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
33 March 24, 2011. Harvard President Drew Faust (at the head of the table) speaks during a lunch with Brazilian university presidents inside São Paulo’s Iate Clube de Santos. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
34 March 24, 2011. Harvard President Drew Faust (left) walks with Merilee Grindle, Edward S. Mason Professor of International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School and director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), outside the entrance to DRCLAS’s regional office in São Paulo, Brazil. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
35 March 24, 2011. Manuela Parisi (from left), Alberto Bueno, Marina de Moura, Vice Provost for International Affairs Jorge Dominguez, and Frederico Meinberg, Lemann Fellow from 2008 to 2010, talk with President Drew Faust at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies’ regional office in São Paulo, Brazil. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
36 March 24, 2011. Harvard President Drew Faust (center) visits the Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP)-USP Medical School. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
37 March 24, 2011. Harvard President Drew Faust visits the Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP)-USP Medical School. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
38 March 24, 2011. Universidade de São Paulo students Barbara Vital (from left), Leandro Tarosso, and Felipe Tadeu de Souza Lima discuss their experiences with Harvard President Drew Faust (not pictured). Photo ∞
39 March 24, 2011. Harvard President Drew Faust (left) speaks with João Grandino Rodas, LL.M. ’78, president of the University of São Paulo. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
40 March 24, 2011. Wolff Klabin ’96 (left) and Samuel Elia ’04 present Harvard President Drew Faust with a book about Brazil during a gathering of Harvard alumni in Rio de Janeiro. Photo by Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer ∞
