To celebrate the 800th anniversary of the founding of the University of Cambridge, Gordon Johnson, the institution’s deputy vice chancellor, gave a talk about the import of universities in society.
A Kennedy School panel discusses and debates President Obama’s plan to add 30,000 troops to Afghanistan to try to stabilize that nation and allow American troops to begin withdrawing in 2011.
In a poll conducted by the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School, nearly half of young Americans said that the economy is the national issue that concerns them most, more than double the next-highest issue, health care.
Jytte Klausen, author and research associate at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, explored the cartoon controversy over depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper in 2005, offering her take on the unrest chronicled in her new book, “The Cartoons that Shook the World.”
Kevin Kit Parker, U.S. Army major and bioengineering professor, offers a “ground-truth” description of how the war is being fought in Afghanistan, and a personal assessment of the challenges faced by U.S. forces.
Education is a force for liberation, President Drew Faust told an audience Thursday (Nov. 26) at the University of Johannesburg at Soweto, where she announced that Harvard and the host university were developing an initiative to train school principals in some of South Africa’s most desperate regions.
Harvard President Drew Faust saw firsthand how Harvard is helping the African nation of Botswana to fight AIDS, when she toured facilities in two communities where a Harvard-Botswana partnership is operating anti-AIDS programs.
The Harvard Statistics Department marked the centennial birth year of one of its founding members, William Gemmell Cochran, with a symposium celebrating his landmark scholarship.
In an interview, HGSE Lecturer Joe Blatt, Ed.M. ’77, director of the Technology, Innovation, and Education program, shares his thoughts on the amazing success of “Sesame Street” and its impact on education — and on the Ed School.
Former governor of New York and Harvard Law School alumnus Eliot Spitzer returned to campus to offer his perspective on the topic of institutional corruption.
Harvard Kennedy School professor Robert Stavins will work behind the scenes at the 2009 U.N. summit on climate change with his Harvard-led initiative on global warming.
Before Greg Epstein became chaplain at Harvard’s Humanist Chaplaincy, he was a rock star. Now he’s written a book on Humanism, a religious philosophy that rejects supernaturalism while encouraging virtuous actions and decisions.
On an internship from the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Peter Bernard ’11 traveled to Japan where he worked at a bookstore and learned that “the culture of books and print is alive and well.”
Esther Mwaikambo is used to starting small. Until her teaching hospital was started in 1997, there was only one medical school in Tanzania, graduating 25 to 40 doctors annually.
Geoffrey Canada was honored with the Robert Coles “Call of Service” Lecture and Award for his work. The annual event is sponsored by the Phillips Brooks House Association and recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the public service realm.
Even while extolling the virtues of public service, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick focused on the pitfalls of public life during remarks in an Oct. 22 Harvard Kennedy School forum on “Inspiring Public Service.”
The Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy celebrated its 10th anniversary in a forum Oct. 21 that examined what has been achieved in the past decade and what remains to be done.
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