Alan M. Garber, MD '83, is Harvard's new provost. . . . Ibrahim Al-Khattat, MS '79, PhD '81, won first prize in the sustainable technology category of the Create the Future design contest sponsored by NASA Tech Briefs magazine. . . . San Francisco State professor emerita Christina Yao, PhD '83, directed Empire of Silver, a feature film about a family's banking business in turn-of-the-20th-century China. . . . Soprano Georgia Duan, '07, won a division of The American Prize in vocal performance. . . . The premiere of Chinglish, by David Henry Hwang, '79, is to run until July 24 in Chicago. The play, in English and Mandarin, is about an American businessman trying to close a deal in China.
