Nation & World

Harvard authorities across many fields offer their ideas on how to get the nation’s lagging economy back on track.

Conference on “Sex Work in Asia,” hosted by the Harvard University Asia Center and Harvard Medical School, discusses issue involving more than 8 million people.

A doctoral student recounts her overseas summer internship researching Kenya’s colonial history for a new exhibit.

A question-and-answer session with Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow and professor Noah Feldman discusses the arrival of former dean Elena Kagan on the U.S. Supreme Court, and the likely issues for the year ahead in American jurisprudence.

As faith-based charities take more federal money to perform social services, part of the price is increasing ethical and moral dilemmas.

Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey’s minister of foreign affairs, delivered messages of cooperation and inclusiveness while elaborating on his six principles for Turkey’s future at a Harvard Kennedy School forum.

If slavery and totalitarianism were the great moral issues of the 19th and 20th centuries, then the worldwide oppression of women and girls will be the defining issue of the 21st, said Nicholas D. Kristof, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, in a talk at Harvard Medical School’s Carl Walter Amphitheater.

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s prescription for a shaken world economy: Coordinate action, and write a global economic constitution that reflects morality while acknowledging business needs.

A two-day Kennedy School conference examined the need to integrate information technology training into the curriculum through a new, long-term initiative.

During a Harvard panel discussion, three authorities on international conflict discussed the complexities on the ground and in international law because of the spreading fog of warfare.

A teach-in at Harvard tries to put the Ground Zero mosque controversy in a historical context.

Disney executive Anne Sweeney, Ed.M. ’80, looks at the speed, challenge, and creativity of modern television platforms.

A massive earthquake rumbled through Chile last Feb. 27, killing more than 500 people, destroying tens of thousands of homes.

Three former spokespersons discussed their time on the press firing line when they worked in the White House.

President Drew Faust and Eric Balderas ’13 paid a visit to Sen. Richard Durbin’s office on Capitol Hill Wednesday (Sept. 15) to express their gratitude for his support of the DREAM Act and his assistance in helping the Harvard student avoid deportation earlier this year.

Author and syndicated columnist Arianna Huffington discussed her recent book, her popular website, and what she sees as ways forward for America at a Harvard Kennedy School talk.

Harvard students and friends spend two weeks working and helping an impoverished corner of the Dominican Republic.

A Harvard doctoral student and two recent graduates worked in Kenya this summer with Harvard history professor Caroline Elkins to lay the foundation for a collaboration with Kenyan scholars to record the African nation’s experience gaining independence from Britain.

Pakistan’s long-term water security requires institutional renewal and new infrastructure, including new dams, on the Indus River.

The first class of students in Harvard’s newest doctoral program gets ready to help transform public schools in America.

New book suggests that Advanced Placement teaching has expanded so much that it now serves many students who can’t handle the rigors of its coursework.

Harvard Divinity School professor Peter Machinist encouraged students to alter their perspectives on education and life through defamiliarization.

Harvard students recount their summer internships and work experiences in many fields, countries.

Going back millennia, Harvard’s Eric Nelson studies the emerging republican ideals that defined liberty and eventually displaced monarchy.

Harvard’s Committee on African Studies has received designation as a National Resource Center by the U.S. Department of Education, raising the profile of African studies at Harvard and gaining federal funding for programs and student efforts.

According to a paper to be published online in the Lancet on Aug. 16, the international community must discard the notion that cancer is a “disease of the rich” and approach it as a global priority.

More than a dozen high school teachers from around the area attended a workshop this week focused on the Cuban Missile Crisis, bringing new points of view to bear on high school students’ understanding of the event.

Study finds that bank foreclosures reduce a house’s price by an average of 27 percent, and nearby homes see their prices cut by an average of 1 percent.

Child welfare advocates from around the country gathered at the Harvard Kennedy School to share strategies for improving the lot of troubled children across the nation.

At Harvard, new Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan is remembered as an insightful intellectual, a tough-minded basketball player, and a colleague who had grit, graciousness, and patience.