Tag: Harvard Kennedy School
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Health
Battling the ‘pandemic of misinformation’
Analysts in public health, politics, and technology discuss the “pandemic” of COVID-19 misinformation being shared around the world.
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Nation & World
For Native Americans, COVID-19 is ‘the worst of both worlds at the same time’
Experts at the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development look at COVID-19’s economic impact on Native American communities across the U.S.
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Campus & Community
Elevating people of color and women in the workplace
Deeneaus ‘D’ Polk, M.P.P. ’20, found his way from Mississippi to Harvard Kennedy School via Germany — but his plan is to return to the South and bring opportunity to jobseekers.
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Nation & World
Is rural America solidly red? Not exactly, Harvard scholars say
Harvard political scientists traveled to four swing states in the past three years to take the political temperature in conservative counties.
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Campus & Community
From taking notes in the classroom to helping the front lines
Students in Mark Fagan’s supply chain management course spent the spring semester using their skills to help the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis.
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Nation & World
Global problem, local solutions
The Arctic Initiative, a joint project of the Environment and Natural Resources Program and the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, will use local expertise for a wide array of potential policy solutions.
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Nation & World
How Earth Day gave birth to environmental movement
Denis Hayes remembers how he dropped out of Harvard Kennedy School in 1970 to help pull together a novel idea: a nationwide rally called Earth Day.
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Nation & World
Assessing the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on correctional institutions
Working in real time, Harvard researchers are surveying correctional facilities to find out how U.S. prisons and jails are being affected by the pandemic.
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Nation & World
Leadership on the front line
The Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative help hundreds of city leaders tackle the pandemic.
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Campus & Community
An update of changes on campus as pandemic spreads
Changes across Harvard’s campus reflect the need to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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Nation & World
An awakening over data privacy
Shoshana Zuboff of Harvard Business School says democracy is the only antidote to the internet privacy crisis.
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Nation & World
Comey defends ‘nightmare I can’t awaken from’
During a Harvard Kennedy School visit, former FBI Director James Comey defends his decisions during the 2016 presidential election.
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Nation & World
Me Too founder discusses where we go from here
Activist and Me Too founder Tarana Burke will receive Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership Gleitsman Award for her work.
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Nation & World
‘Just Mercy’ in the criminal justice system
At a talk following a recent screening of “Just Mercy,” Harvard professors discussed the death penalty as “a point of meditation.”
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Work & Economy
Driving is more expensive than you think
Harvard study says Massachusetts car economy costs $64 billion, and more than half of that comes from public.
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Nation & World
On the brink of war
U.S. Ambassador Wendy Sherman discusses the dangers posed by Iran’s announcement that it will not abide by limits set forth in the 2015 nuclear deal, an accord she negotiated on behalf of the U.S.
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Nation & World
What weighed on us in 2019? ‘Climate emergency’
Harvard faculty reflect on 2019’s word of the year: “climate emergency.”
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Nation & World
The rise of Vladimir Putin
Analysts look back at the unexpected rule of Russian President Vladimir Putin, now 20 years in power.
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Arts & Culture
Baby, you can drive my car
Beatles scholar Kenneth Womack will talk about the Beatles and feminism on Dec. 12 at Harvard.
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Nation & World
Cryptocurrency and national insecurity
In a simulation, North Korea has just tested a missile that will soon be capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to the continental U.S. The move took Washington by surprise as the project was likely funded via a new Chinese digital currency.
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Nation & World
Need for a ‘remodeling’ of democracy, capitalism
With populism’s rise and the U.S. retreat, Poland’s former President Lech Walesa comes out of semi-retirement to urge the U.S. to retake its leadership post and to pass the torch to the next generation of activists.
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Nation & World
American foreign policy in flux
Former career Ambassador Victoria Nuland, a top State Department expert on Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasian affairs, discusses the chaos in Syria, Putin’s biggest fear, and what it was like to be “Patient Zero” of Russia’s phone-hacking attacks.
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Campus & Community
Films that go bump in the night
As All Hallows’ Eve approaches, the Gazette checks in with members of the Harvard community to hear which films they love to fear.
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Nation & World
The conservative quandary
During a panel discussion at Harvard Kennedy School, several leading conservative voices discuss why the movement’s political tenets still matter, even for a political party loyal to President Trump.
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Nation & World
Brexit on the edge
With the fate of Brexit up in the air, the Gazette speaks with Peter Ricketts, a former top diplomat and life peer in Britain’s House of Lords, for insight into what may happen next.
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Campus & Community
Blades of glory
Rowing blades feature designs, most often inspired by shields and mascots, distinctive to each School and House at Harvard.