Tag: Kennedy School of Government

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    Rodrik wins Asturias Award for Social Sciences

    Dani Rodrik, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, has been awarded the 2020 Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences.

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    Dani Rodrik.
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    Food that’s better for all of us and the planet

    According to a summit on food production, diet, and sustainability, humanity needs to refocus on a diet that encompasses sustainability and social justice.

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    Walter Willett speaking.
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    Adjusting the flight plan

    Jake Moore will add a degree from the Kennedy School to the medals and commendations he has earned over 15 years in the Navy. His post-military target is human rights work with refugees and asylum seekers.

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    Moore looking at a river
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    Raising successful kids

    A Q&A with Ronald Ferguson, director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard, about his new book on how to raise successful children based on interviews with highly accomplished young people and their parents.

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    Ronald Ferguson.
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    Poll unveils millennial agenda for next president

    Harvard’s Institute of Politics latest poll of Americans ages 18 to 29 year olds finds that economic concerns top the list.

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    America’s millennials
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    Business as usual

    Evelyn Krache Morris, an associate with the International Security Program of the Belfer Center, assesses the Mexican drug trade in the wake of the arrest of El Chapo, the world’s most powerful trafficker.

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    Paul Mead Doty

    At the Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 7, 2015, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Paul Mead Doty, Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry, Emeritus, was spread upon the records. Professor Doty played a leading role in establishing the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Harvard. He…

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    A laser focus on freedom

    Jieun Baek, who is graduating from Harvard Kennedy School with a master’s in public policy, is dedicated to opening North Korea to the world.

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    The growth of cross-registering

    In recent years, Harvard has seen a 30 percent increase in the number of graduate students taking courses in allied Schools.

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    Making the Harvard College Connection

    Harvard College today announced a new initiative to encourage promising students from modest economic backgrounds to attend and complete college. It will use social media, video, and other Web-based communications, along with traditional forms of outreach, to connect high school students to Harvard and to other public and private colleges.

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    Meserve, Fisher to lead Overseers

    Richard A. Meserve, J.D. ’75, has been elected president of Harvard’s Board of Overseers for 2012-13 and Lucy Fisher ’71 will become vice chair of the board’s executive committee.

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    Innovation recognized by Ash Center

    New York City’s Center for Economic Opportunity (CEO) was named the winner of the Innovations in American Government Award today by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Kennedy School of Government.

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    Two students named Anne Wexler Scholars

    Social enterprise solutions to long-term poverty and research into malnutrition among Australian indigenous people are the two topics that will be the focus of two Harvard students receiving inaugural Anne Wexler Australian-American Studies Scholarships in Public Policy.

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    Harvard Thinks Big 2: “Triumph in the City” – Edward Glaeser

    Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics; Member of the Faculty at the John F. Kennedy School of Government; Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government

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    Like-minded

    Former Washington, D.C., chancellor of schools Michelle Rhee, former Florida governor and current visiting fellow Jeb Bush, and the Center for American Progress’ John Podesta tackled the politics of education reform at an Institute of Politics forum moderated by former U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.

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    Technology in governance

    A two-day Kennedy School conference examined the need to integrate information technology training into the curriculum through a new, long-term initiative.

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    Ash Center welcomes 2010-11 student and executive fellows

    The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School announced its 2010-11 student and executive fellows for the 2010-11 academic year.

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    Excellence honored

    The American Political Science Association has recognized three Harvard affiliates for excellence in the study, teaching, and practice of politics.

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    What Haiti needs … now

    Former Haiti Prime Minister Michèle Pierre-Louis said shelter, jobs, and education are the top priorities in the earthquake-ravaged nation.

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    Obesity trends will snuff out health gains from decline in smoking

    If obesity trends continue, the negative effect on the health of the U.S. population will overtake the benefits gained from declining smoking rates, according to a study by Harvard and…

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    Harvard launches major initiative to help design international climate agreements

    Harvard University announced in early July a two-year project to help identify key design elements of a future international agreement on climate change, drawing on the ideas of leading thinkers from academia, private industry, government, and advocacy organizations, both in the industrialized world and in developing countries.

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    Inaugural Dunlop undergraduate thesis prize is awarded

    The Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government (M-RCBG) at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government recently announced that Pablo M. Tsutsumi ’07 is the winner of the first John T. Dunlop Prize in Business and Government. Tsutsumi won the prize for his thesis titled “Domestic Intentions: International Repercussions: An Empirical Study on the Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley…

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    Kistefos Public Service Fellows named at KSG

    A Norwegian government attorney and a fomer adviser at the Norwegian Mission to the United Nations have been named Kistefos Public Service Fellows at the Kennedy School of Government. The fellowship program was established in 2006 by a donation of more than $1 million from Kistefos AS, one of Norway’s leading privately owned investment companies.

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    Shapeshifter Bratt moves between Wall Street and NGOs

    “I really don’t have a plan for my life,” says Martin Bratt, who is receiving his master’s in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), “but feel that by being who I am I can help break down some stereotypes.” Bratt has seen both sides of the chasm that splits public service and…

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    ‘Harvard does something to you: It opens the door to the world’

    When Raul Ruiz was a teenager, some of his teachers realized he had potential. But most, he says, recommended he apply to a vocational school; it would be a big step toward the American dream for a first-generation Mexican-American boy whose migrant-worker parents had never finished high school.

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    KSG faculty group names recipients of Stone Fellowship and prize

    The Kennedy School of Government’s Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Group recently announced that the 2006 Stone Fellowship has been awarded to Fan Zhang, a Ph.D. candidate in public policy, for her paper “Does Electricity Restructuring Benefit the Environment? Theory and Evidence of Intertemporal Emission Trading in the U.S. SO2 Allowance Market.” The Stone Fellowship…

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    Italian government provides $1.5M for Sustainability Science Program at CID

    The Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land, and Sea has made a $1.5 million gift to support the Fund for Sustainable Development at Harvard’s Center for International Development (CID), it was announced earlier this month. A document-signing ceremony was held May 9 at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG).

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    KSG to launch Acting in Time Initiative that examines long-term challenges

    Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (KSG) is launching a new School-wide initiative intended to inspire discussion, research, and ideas to overcome the incapacity of governments and others to act in time to prevent catastrophic events. The Acting in Time Initiative is designed to harness the expertise and insight of KSG and the University with the…

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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,…

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