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Tag: Harvard Kennedy School
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Campus & Community
From around the world and across Harvard
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has named 50 fellows for the 2016-17 academic year. Eleven of the incoming class are Harvard faculty.
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Nation & World
Losing the war on jihadism
Former top intelligence officials from the Central Intelligence Agency and Israel’s Mossad discussed threats from the Islamic State, issues involving Israel, and the future of the Iran nuclear deal.
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Campus & Community
A focus on veterans
Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership hosted a day of service for students to give back to veterans in the community.
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Campus & Community
Nicco Mele named director of Shorenstein Center
Nicco Mele, the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Journalism at the University of Southern California, is the new director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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Nation & World
Checkup for finance ministers
Nine finance ministers from developing countries gathered at Loeb House to discuss the importance of health to a nation’s economic performance and explore ways for health and finance ministers to work together.
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Campus & Community
Air Force ROTC returns to Harvard
Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James and Harvard President Drew Faust signed an agreement Friday to bring the Air Force ROTC program officially to campus.
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Nation & World
Three diplomatic women
Three diplomats discuss the demands of life as a U.S. ambassador and advise HKS students as they prepare to enter the Foreign Service.
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Science & Tech
Pursuing sustainability
William Clark, co-author of a new book on sustainable development, discusses connecting science and practice, balancing conservation with use.
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Nation & World
Faith still strong in Iran nuclear deal
U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, a key architect of the historic Iran nuclear deal, talks about the essential role science can play in diplomatic efforts to solve major global challenges.
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Campus & Community
Higher education and the military
U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus reflected on the longstanding relationship between Harvard and the Navy during an address to mark the fifth anniversary of the Navy ROTC program’s return to campus.
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Campus & Community
When housing becomes a community
When Micaela Connery’s cousin was born with significant physical and developmental disabilities, Connery didn’t realize the full impact it would have on her life. This spring Connery will graduate with an M.P.P. from Harvard Kennedy School.
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Nation & World
No hearing for Garland, but plenty of noise
Harvard analysts discuss the politics at work behind the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland ’74, J.D. ’77.
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Campus & Community
Institute of Politics, 50 years in
As the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School celebrates its 50th anniversary, alumni reflect on the important influence it had on their lives.
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Nation & World
An EU outflanked, endangered
Harvard analysts discuss the security, political, and economic ramifications of the Brussels terrorist attacks on the European Union.
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Campus & Community
International Committee of the Red Cross president honored
Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, will receive the inaugural Elisabeth B. Weintz Humanitarian Award on March 29 at the Harvard Art Museums. Earlier that day, he will deliver a Director’s Seminar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard. On March 30, he will speak at…
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Campus & Community
Pinning their hopes on buttons
Catchy slogans, iconic symbols, and striking colors are the makings for memorable political buttons.
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Nation & World
A ‘new phase’ of global terrorism
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh C. Johnson spoke to students at Harvard Kennedy School about the complex efforts that go into national security, particularly in the wake of terrorist attacks.
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Science & Tech
The costs of inequality: For women, progress until they get near power
In recent decades, women have made progress in pay and parity with men in such professions as medicine and law. But when it comes to running things at the highest levels, it’s generally still a man’s world.
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Nation & World
In GOP race, rage is all the rage
Harvard analysts discuss the deep roots of Republican anger driving this confounding and historic 2016 election.
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Nation & World
Election spotlight turned on media
Veteran political journalists Jill Abramson, formerly of The New York Times, and CNN’s Sam Feist discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly of the 2016 presidential election coverage.
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Health
The costs of inequality: Money = quality health care = longer life
National health insurance is just a first step to solving the divide between America’s well-off healthy and its poorer, sicker people, Harvard analysts say.
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Nation & World
Apple bites back
With a showdown over privacy and national security issues underway between Apple and the FBI, the Gazette spoke with cyber security expert Michael Sulmeyer and Jonathan Zittrain, co-founder of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, about the pivotal yet competing issues raised by the case.
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Nation & World
Death of a judicial giant
Harvard reacts to the death of Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia.
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Campus & Community
New dean finds strong foundation at HKS
Douglas Elmendorf, the new dean of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, talks about his return to academia and weighs in on where HKS is headed.
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Nation & World
China’s top 100 philanthropists
Harvard Kennedy School researchers’ efforts provide a deep look into the most generous of China’s first generation of billionaires, what they’re doing with their wealth, and why.
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Campus & Community
6 named Schwarzman fellows
Six Harvard students were chosen to study in Beijing as part of first class of Schwarzman Scholars.
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Nation & World
Nuclear nervousness
Analysts at Harvard Kennedy School discuss North Korea’s latest nuclear test and the political implications it presents not only for neighboring powers like China and Russia, but for the rest of the world.
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Nation & World
Soccer under siege
Matt Andrews, an associate professor of public policy at the Center for International Development at Harvard University, discusses the ongoing corruption scandal under now-disgraced FIFA President Sepp Blatter, and how to begin to clean up the sport.
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Nation & World
An Rx for the T
Ash Center senior research fellow Charles Chieppo weighs in on how to begin to fix the troubled MBTA, and assesses the reforms thus far.
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Science & Tech
At last, global fretting on climate change
The Paris agreement to fight climate change greatly expands the international commitment to the cause, Harvard Professor Stavins says.
