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November 12, 2009
Harvard President Drew Faust shares her thoughts on public service work with U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan.
Ryan C. Crocker, a veteran of five ambassadorships in the Middle East, shares lessons from “every major setback.”
Stimulus funds provide research boost
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has helped stimulate research across the University, laying the foundation for future economic growth through innovation.
Harvard will begin a week of events and activities relating to service and outreach and involving Schools across the University community. The programs will help to highlight the richness of the public service landscape at Harvard and will introduce students to the many varieties and pathways into service around the University.
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Carr Center awards Traub-Dicker Fellowships for summer 2009
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) has awarded Traub-Dicker-HKS Fellowships for the summer of 2009 to Benjamin Hall and Baylee DeCastro. Hall and DeCastro will spend the summer researching in the domain of policies affecting the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities.
ECONOMIC RECOVERY: David S. Scharfstein, Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Finance and Banking, Harvard Business School
NUCLEAR TERRORISM: Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School, director of Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
HUMAN RIGHTS: Jennifer Leaning, professor of the practice of global health, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, co-director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, director, Inter-University Initiative on Humanitarian Studies and Field Practice
THE ENVIRONMENT: William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development, Harvard Kennedy School
FOREIGN POLICY: Ernest May, Charles Warren Professor of American History, Harvard Kennedy School
RESEARCH FUNDING: Douglas A. Melton, Harvard College Professor, Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute
PUBLIC SERVICE: Evelynn Hammonds, dean of Harvard College, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies
HEALTH CARE: Joseph Newhouse, John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School
ENERGY: Daniel P. Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology and Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
EDUCATION REFORM: Kathleen McCartney, Gerald S. Lesser Professorship in Early Childhood Development, dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education
FISCAL POLICY: Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, director Taubman Center for State and Local Government, director Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston
On the occasion of President Obama’s 100th day in office, we asked several Harvard faculty members to consider the new administration’s early actions in their areas of expertise and offer some guidance about how the president could make a difference on issues ranging from the threat of nuclear terrorism to energy policy in the days to come.
Panel: Housing crisis is opportunity for action
When housing prices on Main Street tumbled last year — who doesn’t know this? — tremors rumbled all the way to Wall Street, and beyond. For the first time in 40 years of record-keeping, the median price of a single-family home declined. In six months, the value of U.S. housing stock dropped $3 trillion. Credit got tight; sales and housing starts slid.
Boston Public School teachers go back to class
What do ancient Rome and the reign of Queen Elizabeth I have to do with the development of the United States government? A lot, according to Harvard government professor Daniel Carpenter.
Training a physician’s eye on policy
Three years into his medical school career, Joe Ladapo had a revelation, but it wasn’t in a medical class, it was in economics.
Speakers talk about the ‘renaissance’ taking place in Native nations
Three was the magic number when the founding fathers established the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the United States government. Today, for thousands of Americans rewriting their own constitutions, there’s a fourth area of power and oversight.
Joint Center for Housing sees mortgage turmoil hitting rental market
The current mortgage turmoil reaches deep into rental markets. New research on rental housing market dynamics from Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies finds that the current housing debacle not only adds to the number of households competing for low-cost rentals but also threatens renters living in foreclosed properties with sudden eviction.
Sachs insists new technologies essential
Jeffrey Sachs, the internationally renowned economist, returned to his alma mater Monday (April 14) to give his prescription for saving the world. Sustainable development, he said, is the “central challenge of our time.”
Multimedia Features
Congo: Panzi-HHI partnership
Harvard's partnership with a Congolese hospital seeks to understand the causes of the violence against women that hangs like a toxic cloud over a huge swath of this enormous country in Africa’s midsection.
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April 17, 2008
Slideshow / Nov 4, '08
South Africa: Edendale Hospital
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Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Doctor of Laws
Video / Dec 1, '08
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