Harvard Kennedy School is well represented on Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers 2011. Professors Edward Glaeser, Lant Pritchett, and Joseph Nye are included, along with alumni Andrew Sullivan, M.C./M.P.A. 1986, and Robert Zoellick, M.P.P. 1981. Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics and serves as faculty director of both the Taubman…

From targeted cancer chemotherapy to the guarantee of successful organ transplants, the 21st century may prove to be the age of big ideas in medicine. The drugs themselves, though, will be miniscule. Experts in chemistry, applied physics, materials science, and pharmaceutical science are gathering this week for the BASF Advanced Research Initiative at Harvard University’s…

The President’s Office announced today the 2012 grant recipients for the President’s January Innovation Fund for Faculty. The fund was created in 2010 to support Harvard faculty in the development and implementation of creative academic and co-curricular experiences taking place during the January term. The program generated significant interest in its second year, with a…

Friends of Henry Hubschman, HLS 1972 M.P.P. 1973, have set up a fellowship in his memory at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Harvard Law School (HLS). Established shortly after Hubschman’s death in February 2011, the fellowship has received more than $550,000 in contributions and is now permanently endowed. It will provide financial assistance to students…

Over the weekend, Harvard students, guided by Eric Chivian ’64, M.D. ’68, moved three heirloom apple saplings from the Harvard Community Garden to a permanent spot on campus, just behind Lowell House. The three heirloom varieties– a Baldwin, an Esopus Spitzenburg and a Roxbury Russet– were planted by the Center for Health and the Global…

Graduate students may seek mental health services for any number of reasons — for all the reasons that anyone else would seek help. But the demands of a PhD program can exacerbate existing problems with anxiety, self-image, procrastination, substance abuse, and anything else one might bring to the table. That PhD programs generally coincide with…

The current Nieman Fellows at Harvard University have selected Libyan Mohammed Nabbous, founder of Libya Alhurra TV, as this year’s recipient of the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism. Nabbous, who was killed in March, was chosen as a representative of all those who courageously worked to disseminate news during the…

Kip Tiernan BI ’89, founder of Rosie’s Place and the Greater Boston Food Bank and co-founder of Community Works and the Poor People’s United Fund, gave her papers to the Schlesinger Library in 2006 so that scholars and citizens can learn more about how and why she pursued her passion for social justice. That was…

When Lucas Scanlon, MC/MPA 2012 candidate, arrived at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) this fall, he didn’t expect to find many sympathizers. A Tea Party activist from Texas, Scanlon anticipated staunch opposition to many of his political ideals, only to learn that many of his fellow students were open to learning more about the party and…

We’ve got over 70 events on offer to help you learn essential research skills, prepare for your career, make new connections, or just relax and have some fun. GSAS students never really take a “break” from their research, of course, but with teaching and grading responsibilities on hiatus, January@GSAS creates good opportunities for skill-building and…

Smoke was in the room, but it wasn’t car exhaust. No, that function of the former Citgo gas station at 182 Western Ave. is officially gone. Stone Hearth Pizza Co. in Allston-Brighton’s Barry’s Corner is now open for business. The new neighborhood destination at the corner of Western Ave. and North Harvard brings good, sustainable…

The Cultural Survival Bazaar (CSB), a festival of Native arts and culture from around the world, will be held from 
10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Dec. 3-4 at Harvard’s Northwest Labs, 52 Oxford St., Cambridge, with free parking at the Oxford Street Garage, and Dec. 10-11 at Harvard’s CGIS, 
1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, with free…

Campus Services Transportation would like the Harvard community of faculty, students, and staff to be aware of the following change to MBTA Red Line weekend service. MBTA Replacing Weekend Train Service With Bus Shuttles on Red Line between Alewife and Harvard stations from November 5 through March 15. Please note that the MBTA has announced…

Although more than half of all new cancers and two-thirds of annual cancer deaths worldwide occur in low- and middle-income countries, with the cancer burden disproportionately affecting the poor, a new report offers upbeat, realistic recommendations on ways to alleviate the problem, according to a November 5, 2011 Lancet editorial. The report, Closing the Cancer…

Always have a goal and know where you are headed, Julie Gerberding, former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) students October 27, 2011. She shared leadership tips at the Division of Policy Translation and Leadership Development’s lecture series, “Decision-making: Voices from the Field.”…

With the continuing trend toward ever-more “natural” diets, the raw milk debate has gathered steam, including here in Massachusetts where lawmakers have been considering legislation to loosen restrictions on selling raw milk for the nearly 30 dairy farms in the state. While the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH), like other public health agencies and…

Graduate students with aspirations for public service are more inclined to follow their dreams when they have opportunities to connect their coursework with the world of practice. That is the takeaway from a new analysis of the Rappaport Public Policy Fellows Program carried out by Professor Edward Glaeser, who directs HKS’s Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, and…

At the renowned Harvard Faculty Club the latest guest amenity comes in the form of an elegant clear glass bottle. For more than a month, Faculty Club employees have been filling those glass bottles with filtered carbonated or still water from new machines that eliminate the use of over 15,000 plastic and glass bottles annually.…

Fissures in the Eurozone are bubbling over as the Greek government stumbles to come to grips with a new loan deal with the European Union. And troubles in Greece may just be the tip of the iceberg as several other European nations also struggle with crippling debt, high unemployment and citizen unrest. Jeffrey Frankel, the…

On Tuesday, Oct. 25th Earthwatch — an international nonprofit environmental organization — held its first community lecture in a new fall series hosted at its headquarters. The fall lecture series is funded by the Harvard Allston Partnership Fund. “Earthwatch has been on the ground less than 18 months and is already giving back to the…

The Harvard Graduate School of Design will present the 2011 Curry Stone Design Prize Festival, Nov. 7-8. The festival is a joint presentation of the Loeb Fellowship and the Department of Urban Planning and Design, and hosted by Rahul Mehrotra, Chair of Urban Planning and Design. The Curry Stone Design Prize, an annual international award,…

Computer scientists at Harvard, Boston University, and Yale stumbled upon a privacy leak in the mobile version of the popular Yelp social networking review site (m.yelp.com) in late October. In the course of their ongoing research, which studies the interplay between social networks and Internet commerce, the team—Michael Mitzenmacher, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science…

Even as a young child, growing up in Guanajuato, Mexico, Edgar Barroso remembers being fascinated by the possibility of creating something meaningful out of sound. Over the course of the years — having learned to play several instruments along the way — this gifted composer and Harvard PhD candidate in the Music Department has created…

Mark Zuckerberg will visit Harvard Monday to recruit students for jobs and internships at Facebook, the University announced today. Zuckerberg, along with Facebook Vice President of Engineering Mike Schroepfer, will meet with more than 200 computer science students at Farkas Hall for a discussion moderated by computer science lecturer David J. Malan. It is Zuckerberg’s…

The Vampire in Film & Literature “The vampire story has been used by authors and filmmakers alike as an encoded way of talking about a lot of things besides vampirism,” says Sue Weaver Schopf, who teaches the fall Harvard Extension School course, ENGL E-212 The Vampire in Literature and Film. “It’s been a useful metaphor…

Washington, DC—Two major digital library networks have reached an agreement to collaborate in ways that will make a large part of the world’s cultural heritage available to a large part of the world’s population.  The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), which will provide access to digital collections from libraries, museums, and archives in the…

Washington, DC—The Sloan Foundation and Arcadia Fund today announced a major contribution for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) in the form of combined $5 million in funding. The DPLA Steering Committee is leading the first concrete steps toward the realization of a large-scale digital public library that will make the cultural and scientific…

Laura Salah Nasrallah, professor of New Testament and early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School (HDS), has received funding from the Battelle Memorial Institute to organize a symposium. Scholars of diverse disciplinary training will meet for a symposium during the 2012-13 academic year to discuss the topic “How Bodies Matter: Religion, Archaeology, and Physical Anthropology in…

The Graduate School is pleased to announce that for the third year running, it will curate a flexible January series of seminars, workshops, and social opportunities, on January 9-20, 2012, designed to help graduate students get something valuable from the winter break. GSAS students never really take a “break” from their research, of course, but…

The Office of Career Services and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are offering a number of don’t-miss events this year as part of their ongoing Becoming Faculty career series. These special programs run through the end of January and are geared toward helping graduate students in GSAS prepare for the academic job search. The series…