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Tag: Government
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Campus & Community
IOP announces spring fellows
Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics has announced the selection of an experienced group of individuals for resident and visiting fellowships this spring.
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Campus & Community
Ash Center welcomes new fellows
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School announced more than 60 student and research fellows for the 2011-12 academic year.
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Campus & Community
Roemer to visit IOP in October
The Institute of Politics (IOP), located at Harvard Kennedy School, announced the fall visiting fellowship of Tim Roemer the week of Oct. 3.
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Campus & Community
A world traveler, at work
As a member of two proactive groups, Ablorde Ashigbi ’11 has spent much of his College career trying to make a difference. His work has helped to improve public health and business opportunities in Africa, and has offered a chance to explore approaches to education reform in the United States.
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Nation & World
The influence of neighbors
Where we live and who we know can affect our voting patterns, Harvard researcher suggests.
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Campus & Community
Top 25 Innovations in Government announced
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School announced the Top 25 Innovations in Government in competition for the Innovations in American Government Award.
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Nation & World
Focus on Pakistan
What did Pakistani officials know about the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and when did they know it? Were they complicit — or dumb? Or smart at playing dumb? Those questions were analyzed by a panel of foreign policy experts on Wednesday (May 4) at Harvard Kennedy School.
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Campus & Community
Samuel Hutchison Beer
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 5, 2011, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Samuel Hutchison Beer, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Beer was one of the world’s leading experts on British politics and also served…
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Campus & Community
Faust named 40th Jefferson Lecturer
Drew Faust, eminent historian and president of Harvard University, will deliver the 2011 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on May 2.
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Campus & Community
HLS appoints Gertner, Shay as professors of practice
Harvard Law School has announced the appointments of U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner and Stephen Shay, deputy assistant secretary for international tax affairs in the U.S. Department of the Treasury, as professors of practice.
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Campus & Community
Institute of Politics director named
Trey Grayson, who is completing his second term as secretary of state in Kentucky, has been named director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) at Harvard University. Grayson will assume his post on Jan. 31.
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Arts & Culture
Yalta: The Price of Peace
Mykhailo S. Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History S.M. Plokhy uncovers the daily dynamics of the 1945 Yalta Conference and embroiders them with items behind subsequent recrimination about the conference results, such as FDR’s ill health and the presence of probable Soviet spy Alger Hiss.
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Campus & Community
Future of Diplomacy Project names fellows
Harvard Kennedy School’s Future of Diplomacy Project has announced new resident and nonresident fellows for fall 2010.
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Arts & Culture
The measure of the man
James Kloppenberg, chair of Harvard’s History Department, is out with a new book called “Reading Obama,” which parses the American president through his own writings.
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Nation & World
Where men have more than one wife
Radcliffe researcher explores the connection between cultures where men have more than one wife and increased violence.
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Campus & Community
Field goals
Chris LeRoy ’11 is enjoying his first season as a starter — one who “has developed into an All-Ivy caliber player,” according to his coach.
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Campus & Community
HKS receives $1 million
Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government announced a $1 million gift from the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Court. The gift will be used to launch a new graduate fellowship that will support emerging leaders from the United Arab Emirates.
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Campus & Community
Edmond J. Safra graduate fellowships in ethics 2011-12
Applications are invited from graduate students who are writing dissertations or are engaged in major research on topics in practical ethics, especially ethical issues in architecture, business, education, government, law, medicine, public health, public policy, and religion.
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Nation & World
The way forward
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.
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Campus & Community
‘From Harvard Square to the Oval Office’ open for applications
“From Harvard Square to the Oval Office” is now accepting applications. The program, run by the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School, is open to all Harvard University graduate students, including international students.
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Campus & Community
Ash Center welcomes 2010-11 student and executive fellows
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School announced its 2010-11 student and executive fellows for the 2010-11 academic year.
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Nation & World
Tracing the roots of political thought
Going back millennia, Harvard’s Eric Nelson studies the emerging republican ideals that defined liberty and eventually displaced monarchy.
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Nation & World
Colleagues recall Kagan’s years at Harvard
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.
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Nation & World
Harvard’s historic mark
As Elena Kagan becomes the 112th Supreme Court justice, she adds to an impressive list of now 23 justices who have one thing in common: Not only have they shaped the law in influential and historical ways — they all hail from Harvard.
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Campus & Community
U.S. grants visa to journalist and Nieman fellow
The U.S. State Department has reversed its decision to deny a visa to leading Colombian journalist Hollman Morris. He is now free to travel to the United States, where he will begin a yearlong fellowship at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
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Campus & Community
Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy awards Cordeiro Health Policy Summer Research Grants
Nine rising seniors pursuing a secondary field in health policy have been awarded Cordeiro Health Policy Summer Research Grants by the Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s Institute of Politics announces fall fellows
Six individuals have been selected for fall resident fellowships at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics.
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Campus & Community
Six grad students named Rappaport Fellows
Six Harvard University graduate students are among the 13 local graduate students who will spend the summer working in key state agencies as Rappaport Public Policy Fellows.
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Arts & Culture
Peering into gearworks of FDA
Daniel Carpenter’s new book, “Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA,” probes the workings of a crucial federal safety agency that often is either lionized or demonized.
