Tag: Harvard Kennedy School

  • Campus & Community

    Obaid joins Belfer Center as visiting fellow

    Nawaf Obaid joins Belfer Center as visiting fellow

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  • Health

    Win for Obama, but no let-up in debate

    The U.S. Supreme Court decision on Thursday upholding the basis of national health care reform is far from the last word on the topic, Harvard faculty members said, and merely raises the curtain on act two: November’s general election.

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  • Nation & World

    Royal views

    Crown Prince Felipe of Spain covered a range of topics — working his way from the 15th century to the euro crisis — in a talk at Harvard Kennedy School.

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  • Nation & World

    A Nobel cause in the Arab world

    The West must do more to support the ongoing, peaceful democratic revolutions in long-suppressed Arab nations, Yemeni activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman said during an address at the Harvard Kennedy School

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  • Nation & World

    A meeting of ministerial minds

    At a moment of global opportunity for improving maternal and child health, the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy School’s Ministerial Leadership Program for Health launched the inaugural Ministerial Health Leaders’ Forum this week, inviting 16 officials from around the world to campus to share experiences and solutions and to create a network…

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  • Campus & Community

    Organizing for health care

    Pedrag Stojicic, who is graduating from the Harvard School of Public Health, plans to apply his passion for organizing to problems in his Serbian homeland, including HIV/AIDS and physician corruption.

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  • Campus & Community

    Degrees of success

    A breakdown of degrees awarded at Harvard’s 361st Commencement.

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  • Nation & World

    Ahead of the learning curve

    From the $40 million Hauser gift to support teaching and learning initiatives to the recent announcement of the global online platform edX, Harvard tackled the future of higher education head-on in 2011-12. As the University’s 375th anniversary draws to a close, the Gazette asked some prescient professors: “What’s the one big idea that will transform…

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  • Campus & Community

    Harvard student, Mexican politician

    When Lilia Aguilar earns her Kennedy School degree, she’ll return to her homeland to ramp up her campaign for a seat in congress.

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  • Campus & Community

    ‘Voice of public service at Harvard’

    Calling the Kennedy School “the voice of public service at Harvard,” University President Drew Faust welcomed alumni from across seven decades Friday to a special 75th anniversary conference.

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  • Campus & Community

    Ash Center funds experimental student projects

    The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School announced it will fund 23 students through experimental learning projects this summer.

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  • Campus & Community

    2012 Challenges to Democracy Grantees named

    The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School announced the recipients of its annual Challenges to Democracy Grant program.

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  • Nation & World

    Helping teachers hone their techniques

    Ronald Heifetz of HKS led the final seminar in this year’s “Talking about Teaching” series, a University-wide effort to explore pedagogical connections across disciplines and Schools.

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  • Campus & Community

    Memorial for Paul Doty

    A memorial service celebrating the life of Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry Emeritus Paul Doty will be held on May 4 at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Church.

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  • Nation & World

    Policing for, and with, the community

    The idea that law enforcement should work with citizens to help prevent, reduce, and solve crimes took flight through an unusual collaboration of academics and police leaders at Harvard Kennedy School.

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  • Health

    Beyond the ivory tower, into the world

    The Harvard School of Public Health’s Division of Policy Translation and Leadership Development seeks to give faculty the tools to create broad change and to connect global leaders with the School’s research to improve conditions on the ground.

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  • Nation & World

    Kissinger looks back

    Henry Kissinger has spent more than half a century thinking about and shaping foreign policy. At Sanders Theatre on Wednesday, the former Secretary of State reflected on the “hobby that became my profession.”

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  • Campus & Community

    They pledge allegiance

    Harvard University students and staff on Monday helped to celebrate the new U.S. citizenship of 23 staff members, all of whom achieved their goal with the aid of the Harvard Citizenship Program.

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  • Science & Tech

    Technology transforms energy outlook

    The U.S. energy picture has changed dramatically in recent years, with a flood of shale gas making natural gas a more attractive fuel option and the opening of new supplies cutting U.S. dependence on Middle Eastern oil, an energy expert says.

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  • Nation & World

    Changing the world, in under 9 minutes

    The inaugural event “One Harvard: Lectures that Last” featured short talks by a dozen speakers representing Harvard’s graduate and professional Schools. The session was designed to reveal the crosscurrents of innovation that can flow from discipline to discipline, and to expose students to fresh ideas.

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  • Nation & World

    Wise negotiator

    At Harvard to receive the Great Negotiator Award, James A. Baker III offered his insight and political perspective on his time as a senior government official for three U.S. presidents.

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  • Arts & Culture

    Film, fact, and fantasy

    Indian-born director Deepa Mehta often shines light on her homeland with films that explore complex and controversial themes. She discussed her creative and collaborative process during a talk at the Radcliffe Gymnasium.

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  • Nation & World

    Lessons from deep underground

    Laurence Golborne was Chile’s mining minister in 2010 when a mineshaft collapse catapulted him into the international spotlight. The subsequent 69-day operation that Golborne led to rescue 33 trapped miners made him famous.

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  • Campus & Community

    Toft named Fulbright scholar

    Monica Toft, associate professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, has been selected for a 2012-2013 Fulbright U.S. scholar grant.

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  • Campus & Community

    HKS presents Neustadt and Schelling Awards

    Amartya Sen, one of the world’s most eminent economists and philosophers, has been named one of the recipients of the 2012 Richard E. Neustadt and Thomas C. Schelling Awards.

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  • Nation & World

    Investigative journalism, alive and well

    Investigative reporting is an increasingly rare luxury for many news organizations. A Shorenstein Center roundtable featuring the finalists for the Goldsmith Awards in Political Journalism proved that with resources, hard work, and collaboration, the craft can thrive.

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  • Nation & World

    Academia, meet the press

    With its increasingly popular website called Journalist’s Resource, the Shorenstein Center is putting academia’s insights at reporters’ fingertips, and making a broader case for knowledge-based reporting.

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  • Campus & Community

    Kissinger returns to Harvard

    Henry A. Kissinger, who served as National Security adviser and secretary of state during the Nixon and Ford administrations after 15 years as a member of the Harvard faculty, will be the featured speaker on a panel discussion in Sanders Theatre on April 11.

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  • Nation & World

    Palin’s game-changing legacy

    Political journalists Mark Halperin ’87 and John Heilemann, M.P.A. ’90, returned to Harvard Thursday night to screen and discuss the new HBO Films adaptation of their best-seller “Game Change,” showing that the drama of Sarah Palin’s 2008 vice presidential nomination can still draw an enthusiastic crowd.

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  • Nation & World

    Feminism, now stalled

    A Harvard law professor, former judge, and ardent feminist points to the cultural impediments that have stalled feminism’s quest for an equal workplace.

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