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Tag: Harvard Kennedy School
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Nation & World
Frank calls for (re) regulation
U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, came to the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Monday (April 6) to lay out a four-point program for re-regulating the nation’s financial system.
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Campus & Community
Narayanamurti accepts spot at HKS’s Belfer Center
Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti will be the new director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School’s (HKS) Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Belfer Center director Graham Allison announced April 1.
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Nation & World
Former prime minister of Spain explores ‘Role of Europe’
Jose Maria Aznar, the prime minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004, will deliver a lecture titled “The Role of Europe in the Geopolitical Context” at 5 p.m. Wednesday (April 15) in the Belfer Center’s Starr Auditorium at Harvard Kennedy School.
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Nation & World
Ash names Top 50 innovations in government
The Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) recently announced the top 50 programs of the 2009 Innovations in American Government Awards competition. The programs, which represent the best in government innovation from local, county, city, tribal, state, and federal levels, were selected from more than 600 applicants, and include…
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Science & Tech
Narayanamurti named director of Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at Belfer Center
Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti will be the new director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Belfer Center director…
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Campus & Community
Gwen Ifill of ‘Washington Week’ wins Goldsmith Award
The winners of the Shorenstein Center’s annual Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism are by definition accomplished. But in listing all the achievements of this year’s recipient, Gwen Ifill, Shorenstein Center director Alex Jones chose to focus on something that is unlikely to find its way onto her resumé.
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Nation & World
Kayyem named Homeland Security assistant secretary
Juliette Kayyem, undersecretary of homeland security for the commonwealth of Massachusetts, has been named assistant secretary of intergovernmental programs of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Kayyem, who is a former executive director at Harvard Kennedy School’s (HKS) Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, is also a current member (on leave) of the Belfer…
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Campus & Community
Gieve named senior fellow at Belfer Center
Sir John Gieve, former deputy governor of Bank of England, was recently announced as the new Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
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Health
Congressmen highlight challenges of mental illness, substance abuse
In 2008, 54 million Americans suffered with mental illness; 35,000 Americans committed suicide due to untreated depression; and 180,000 people died as a direct result of an untreated addiction. Congressmen Jim Ramstad (R-Minn.) and Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) spoke at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Monday (March 2) on the truths and realities of mental…
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Nation & World
Taking on the ‘Godzilla Economy’
The president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas delivered a somber economic message Monday night (Feb. 23) during the annual Albert H. Gordon Lecture at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. But while Richard Fisher admitted that policymakers should have heeded the signs of financial stress long ago, he expressed hope that…
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Campus & Community
Carr Center receives gift to support LGBT research
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) is now offering the Traub-Dicker-HKS Summer Research Fellowship to support research by HKS students interested in human rights issues affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities.
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Nation & World
Room for optimism after Gaza
A capacity crowd at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) this week (Feb. 11) got to see a scaled-down, toned-down version of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Instead of stones and rockets, words flew. Instead of despair, there was at least a glimmer of hope.
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Nation & World
Index offers abundance of data
To employ an analogy: If Somalia were to take a math test, the chaotic nation in the Horn of Africa would score a dismal 18.9 out of 100.
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Campus & Community
Kuwait Program research funds now available
The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) recently announced the spring 2009 funding cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund.
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Campus & Community
Kennedy School’s Ash Institute welcomes Asia Programs fellows
The Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) recently announced 11 new fellows for the spring 2009 term. As representatives from academic, government, and business sectors in Asia, the fellows will pursue independent research at the Ash Institute’s Asia Programs.
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Arts & Culture
Panel of experts addresses Lincoln’s legacy
On Monday (Feb. 9), a team of experts assembled at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (HKS) to examine the history and profound impact of the tall, awkward, self-taught man from rural Kentucky who is credited with bringing about an end to slavery and saving the nation’s cherished founding principle of democratic rule.
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Campus & Community
Tueni Human Rights Fellowship created
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School (HKS) and the Hariri Foundation-USA have announced the creation of the Gebran G. Tueni Human Rights Fellowship Program.
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Campus & Community
Tobey named senior fellow at Belfer Center
William H. Tobey, deputy administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation at the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) from 2006 to 2009, was named a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s (HKS) Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. There he will work with the center’s nuclear team.
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Campus & Community
Shorenstein Center announces spring fellows and visiting faculty
The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), dedicated to exploring the intersection of press, politics, and public policy in theory and practice, recently announced incoming fellows and visiting faculty for the spring of 2009.
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Campus & Community
HKS, Stanford collaborate on poverty project
A new collaborative effort bringing together faculty and scholars from Harvard and Stanford universities is being launched to evaluate — and develop — national policy on poverty and inequality in America. The Collaboration for Poverty Research (CPR) will tap the vast intellectual resources of both institutions, leveraging their combined power to focus attention and garner…
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Arts & Culture
‘Nation-shaking’ racial, ethnic changes
Real earthquakes are slow to build and fast to erupt. Other, metaphorical, quakes, can follow the same pattern — and be just as earthshaking.
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Science & Tech
John P. Holdren named President-elect Obama’s Science Advisor
President-elect Barack Obama today announced that he has selected Harvard’s John P. Holdren to serve as Assistant to the President for Science and Technology in the new administration. The post,…
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Campus & Community
Darman memorial service, dedication on Dec. 16
There will be a memorial service honoring Richard Darman ’64, M.B.A.’67 from 11 a.m. to noon on Dec. 16 at the Memorial Church. Darman, who died Jan. 25, was a member of the faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) where he received the Carballo Award for Excellence in Teaching and Distinguished Public Service, having…
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Campus & Community
HKS students will help out city of Boston
When the mayor of Somerville needed help with his city’s fiscal crisis in 2004, he looked to Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) for assistance. Four years later, in today’s uncertain economic climate, the city of Boston is turning to the institution for aid.
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Science & Tech
Shai Agassi dreams of a gas-free future
Electric cars with zero emissions. Powered by renewable energy. All over the world. That is Shai Agassi’s dream. The 40-year-old Israeli entrepreneur left a lucrative corporate software track last year to found Better Place, a transportation company based on sustainability and independence from oil.
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Nation & World
‘Is Afghanistan Lost?’
At a panel discussion Monday at the Harvard Kennedy School, Maleeha Lodhi evoked Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire Cat to describe the situation on the ground in Afghanistan.