Tag: Harvard Kennedy School

  • Campus & Community

    HKS receives $600,000 from William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

    The Harvard Decision Science Laboratory, a cross-faculty research facility based at the Harvard Kennedy School, has received a three-year, $600,000 grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to support the lab’s scientific research in human judgment and decision making.

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    HKS establishes Kenneth I. Juster Fellowship Fund

    The Harvard Kennedy School of Government is establishing the Kenneth I. Juster Fellowship Fund to support the research of outstanding Master in Public Policy students specializing in international and global affairs.

  • Nation & World

    JFK’s legacy at 50

    To honor the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, the Harvard Kennedy School and the Institute of Politics are planning a year of events designed to update the former president’s call to public service for the modern age.

  • Campus & Community

    Moving past any obstacles

    Tomer Rosner is an accomplished Israeli civil servant and a midcareer student on a fellowship at Harvard. He’s also the only blind student at Harvard Kennedy School, but that’s hardly slowed him down.

  • Campus & Community

    Back from Afghanistan

    A veteran, now a midcareer student at the Harvard Kennedy School, reflects on the values that his military peers bring to campus. Still, when a sharp noise splits the air, he ducks.

  • Campus & Community

    10 named to new Harvard Library Board

    President Drew Faust has announced the names of the first 10 members of the new Harvard Library Board, which will oversee the transition of the University’s vast library system to a coordinated structure.

  • Campus & Community

    Michael P. Burke appointed FAS registrar

    Michael P. Burke has been appointed the new registrar for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective Jan. 31.

  • Nation & World

    The politics of ballparks

    From Camden Yards to Fenway Park, Red Sox President and CEO Larry Lucchino has helped to push the idea of the American ballpark as a civic focal point since the 1980s. On Tuesday (Dec. 7), he shared his thoughts on “Ballparks, Politics, and Public Policy” at the Harvard Kennedy School.

  • Nation & World

    Inside a kidnapping

    New York Times reporter and author David Rohde discussed his seven months in captivity at the hands of the Taliban, which is the subject of his book, “A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides,” co-authored by his wife, Kristen Mulvihill.

  • Science & Tech

    The EPA at 40

    EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said that strong Republican gains in November’s election do not mean there is a public mandate to roll back EPA protections.

  • Nation & World

    Heading for Congress

    Twenty-four incoming members of Congress visited the Harvard Kennedy School this week for a four-day conference to help prepare them for their new jobs.

  • Nation & World

    Nuclear weapons, primal fears

    With 23,000 nuclear weapons in the world, analysts gathered at Harvard with a message: Just say none — but prepare for the worst.

  • Campus & Community

    Greening the Kennedy School

    Harvard Kennedy School makes quick progress in efforts to conserve energy use, promote recycling.

  • Nation & World

    Giant steps

    Scholars and editors debate and celebrate the legacy of their late mentor, Samuel P. Huntington.

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    Innovative education

    In a speech, Arizona State president presents new ideas that could fuel higher educational innovation over the next 40 years.

  • Nation & World

    The outlook for Africa

    Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice argued that the United States’ continued involvement in African affairs is good for international stability and for the American idea in “The National Interest, Africa, and the African Diaspora: Does U.S. Foreign Policy Connect the Dots?” — the first of three W.E.B. Du Bois lectures on the black experience…

  • Nation & World

    A friend in the Middle East

    If American leaders want help disentangling — and possibly even solving — complex problems in the Middle East, they should look to Saudi Arabia for leadership, said Prince Turki Al Faisal, former ambassador to the United States, in a talk at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics on Friday (Nov. 19).

  • Nation & World

    Attention!

    War is an unpredictable, nonlinear interplay of policy and strategy, Adm. Mike Mullen said in a Harvard talk, and “sense and adjust” is the way to proceed.

  • Nation & World

    Divided they stand

    What to expect in 2011 and beyond? After this month’s midterm elections, Harvard’s resident analysts look ahead to Congress’ upcoming agenda, from tax reform to foreign policy to the 2012 political calculus.

  • Arts & Culture

    A master at his craft

    Author and Harvard graduate Tracy Kidder is the first writer in residence at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. For the fall semester, he is sharing his insights about the art of writing with the Harvard community.

  • 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.

  • Nation & World

    The rights of women

    UNESCO director-general cites progress on international rights, but says gender equality lags in regions like sub-Saharan Africa, where as many as 12 million girls never attend school.

  • Science & Tech

    The looming water shortage

    The head of Nestlé explored ways to address a looming worldwide water crisis during a discussion at the Harvard Kennedy School.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘Outstanding Women’ honored

    Harvard College Dean Evelynn Hammonds and Swanee Hunt, Eleanor Roosevelt Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), received the Outstanding Women Award from the YWCA Cambridge on Oct. 29.

  • Campus & Community

    Getting out the vote

    Cambridge residents, University students vote at two campus locations during midterm elections.

  • Nation & World

    American banks: On the mend

    Financial reforms just enacted, said FDIC chair Sheila Bair, will put risk where it belongs, and usher in a new era of stability, efficiency, and consumer protection.

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    Peering into the crystal ball

    Students at Harvard Kennedy School try their hands at political forecasting for the upcoming midterm elections.

  • Nation & World

    Food for thought

    Harvard authorities on Southeast Asia see trouble on the horizon for rice production and consumption by billions of people dependent on the grain. The threats come from water shortages, salinization, and bad resource management.

  • Nation & World

    Seeking a finer balance

    In a two-day conference a group of Harvard scholars joined leaders in the private and public sectors to explore gender gaps in societal, political, and economic realms, as well as the means of developing policy, corporate practices, and leadership strategies to foster gender diversity.

  • Nation & World

    Undoing the damage

    Harvard panel examines fiscal problems of the past two years, and what it will take to restore the economy to health.