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Schulz: U.S. should take stand on torture
“The ancient Greeks would have been ashamed of us.” That was the assessment of Amnesty International USA’s former executive director William Schulz of the U.S. military’s abuses of prisoners at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison in 2004. Schulz said that Greeks and Romans routinely tortured slaves as a way to establish the truth of a situation…
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New York City mayor to receive award, deliver remarks at KSG
Michael R. Bloomberg, mayor of New York City, will receive the Pathfinder Award Friday (March 2) from the Leadership for a Networked World (LNW) Program at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). Bloomberg will also deliver remarks before an audience of invited guests at the School’s Wiener Auditorium beginning at 4 p.m. and will be…
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Jackson raps abundance of ‘experts’
In 1973, Shirley Ann Jackson became the first black woman to receive a Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Decades – and 38 honorary degrees – later, Jackson is the president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York. Her resume includes time as a university researcher (in theoretical elementary particle physics);…
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Kuwait Program accepting grant proposals
The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the 12th funding cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund. With the support of the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, a Kennedy School faculty committee will consider applications for one-year grants (up to $30,000) and larger grants for more extensive proposals to support advanced research…
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Speakers at Ed School say it takes a community to educate a child
By 12th grade, black students in the United States are four years behind their white counterparts in reading and math scores, according to national statistics that also show Hispanic students falling behind at a similar rate. Yet by the year 2050, the number of blacks and Hispanics in the United States will jump from 26…
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Friendly wave hits Asia
Six years after sweeping across Asia, the Korean wave hit Cambridge with a crash on Friday (Feb. 16) during a panel at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. “Korean wave” – or Hallyu – refers to the sizzling popularity of South Korean popular culture throughout Asia. From the Philippines and Malaysia, to Singapore, Japan, and China,…
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Student KSG, HBS veterans honored
Student veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan shared hard-won lessons of leadership Tuesday evening (Feb. 20), providing a glimpse of the self-sacrifice, courage under fire, and devotion to comrades needed to lead U.S. troops into battle.
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Democrats need unified message
In 1967, Charles E. Schumer, a middle-class teenager from Brooklyn, N.Y., arrived at Harvard College with two goals in mind: to play freshman basketball and to study organic chemistry. At the basketball tryout, the would-be power forward – now New York’s senior senator – never got on court, after admitting to the coach that his…
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Power sees U.S. foreign policy on steep downhill slide
On Aug. 19, 2003, the first suicide bomb to hit Iraq went off with a roar at the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, where the United Nations had been encamped for a dozen years. Among the dead was a Brazilian diplomat, Sérgio Vieira de Mello, the UN high commissioner for Human Rights.
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Powerful documentary on genocide screened at Kennedy School
Those who loudly refused to let the world turn a blind eye or feign helplessness as genocides ravaged millions of lives this century and last are sometimes dubbed “screamers.” The Harvard community got an earful Monday evening (Feb. 5) from an unlikely quartet of modern screamers – the chart-topping, earsplitting heavy metal band System of…
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KSG’s Shorenstein Center chooses six Goldsmith Prize finalists
Six entries have been chosen as finalists for the 2007 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting awarded each year by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG).
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Enel makes $5 million gift to Environmental Economics Program
In recognition of the continued growth and influence exhibited by the Environmental Economics Program at Harvard University, Enel, a progressive Italian corporation involved in energy production worldwide, will make a gift of $5 million to establish The Enel Endowment for Environmental Economics. The gift was announced during a signing ceremony Tuesday (Feb. 6) at Harvard’s…
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Kuwait Program accepting grant proposals
The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced the 12th funding cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund. With the support of the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, a Kennedy School faculty committee will consider applications for one-year grants (up to $30,000) and larger grants for more extensive proposals to support advanced research…
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Seven deadly sins on collision course with market forces
Using the seven deadly sins to examine corporate social responsibility, Kennedy School Professor Herman “Dutch” Leonard explained that today’s market-based economy exploits behavior that is deeply embedded in man’s evolutionary history.
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Terror war could strain veterans’ health, benefit systems
The cost of caring for veterans of the war on terror could reach $662 billion over the next 40 years, while demand from returning soldiers is already clogging the two major veterans’ assistance programs, according to recent research by Linda J. Bilmes, a lecturer in public policy from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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Scholars to gather for workshop on Southeastern Europe
The Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe, Kennedy School of Government, will hold its ninth annual graduate student workshop on Southeastern Europe on Friday (Feb. 2) from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Harvard’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.
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Carr Center names Arkin fellow
William Arkin will join the Kennedy School of Government’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy as a policy fellow for the spring semester, it was announced in January.
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KSG student named ‘Person of the Year’ by ABC News
Rye Barcott, a student at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and founder of a nonprofit that works to improve the quality of life in one of Africa’s largest slums, has been named a 2006 “Person of the Year” by ABC News.
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KSG community pays tribute to Frank Stanton
Broadcast legend Frank Stanton, longtime president of CBS and a former chair of the Kennedy School’s Visiting Committee, is being remembered by the Kennedy School community following his death Dec. 24, 2006, in Boston. He was 98 years old.
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Shorenstein Center names spring fellows, visiting faculty
The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, located at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, recently announced its spring fellows.
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Institute of Politics announces six spring fellows
Harvard University’s Institute of Politics (IOP), located at the Kennedy School of Government, has announced the selection of an experienced group of individuals for its spring resident fellowship program. Resident fellows interact with students, participate in the intellectual life of the community, and pursue individual studies or projects throughout an academic semester.
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Renewable electricity effort receives Roy Award
The Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has announced that the 2007 Roy Family Award for Environmental Partnership will go to the Hybrid Systems for Rural Electrification in Africa (HSREA). The HSREA project provides reliable, renewable electricity to rural African villages through a system of solar panel technology combined with modified diesel motors running on pure…
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University announces this academic year’s Zuckerman Fellows
Two former Peace Corps volunteers, two former Fulbright Scholars, six people who have started their own nonprofit organizations, the co-founder of a medical journal devoted to global health issues, and the sixth person in the 20th century to graduate from West Point as both first captain and top-ranked cadet are among this year’s Zuckerman Fellows.
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Safra Foundation welcomes faculty fellows, senior scholars
The Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics recently welcomed its faculty fellows and senior scholars for 2006-07. The faculty fellows, who study ethical problems in business, government, law, medicine, and public policy, were selected from a pool of applicants from universities and professional institutions throughout the United States and several other countries.…
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‘Ma Ellen,’ African symbol of hope, returns to Harvard
In the Liberian capital of Monrovia, children stared in amazement. They had never seen such bright lights illuminating the streets, Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf told an audience of Harvard students and professors on Monday (Sept. 18, 2006) at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.
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KSG’s Kistefos fellows focus on public service work
Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (KSG) recently announced the establishment of the Kistefos Public Service Fellowship. The fellowship will be funded through a donation of more than $1 million from Kistefos AS, one of Norway’s leading privately owned investment companies.
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Jill Carroll among fall fellows at Shorenstein
The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, located at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, recently announced its fellows for the fall. These Shorenstein Fellows will work on research projects while at the center.
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Power named first Anna Lindh Professor
The Kennedy School of Government has announced that Samantha Power has been named Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy, the first faculty member to hold the chair honoring the longtime Swedish political and civic leader who was assassinated in 2003.
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Shorenstein announces spring fellows
The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government recently announced its group of spring fellows.
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IOP announces fellows for spring semester
Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP), located at the Kennedy School of Government, has announced the selection of an experienced group of individuals for fellowships this spring. The following resident fellows will join the institute for the spring semester and will lead weekly, not-for-credit study groups on a range of political topics. Fellows interact with students,…