Tag: Public Service

  • Nation & World

    Call it summer school in public service

    Presidential fellowships give students a chance to kick the tires on careers for greater common good

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    Claudine Gay (left) and Fellow Lucy Tu talk during the event.
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    Service comes first

    Tyler Patrick, J.D.’22, is pursuing a joint program and will earn a J.D. at Harvard Law and M.P.A. at Princeton this year. He was commissioned as a Marine Corps officer in June of last year.

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    Tyler Patrick '22
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    Inspired to action, eager to serve

    The global Harvard community participated in the University’s first Global Day of Service.

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    Zoom shot.
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    Clearing the air

    Alicia Nelson, M.P.H. ’20, is boosting Alaskans’ health by promoting dialogue between public health officials and the community. Now with COVID-19, Nelson said that her Harvard Chan School training in risk communication is proving invaluable

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    Alicia Nelson, M.P.H. ’20 in front of woodpile.
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    ‘My need to serve — that itch that I had — wasn’t being scratched’

    Salvador Peña has spent the past three years at Harvard Divinity School earning his master of divinity degree and satisfying that itch to serve others.

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    Salvador Pena.
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    To do good in the world

    On Feb. 2, the Phillips Brooks House Center for Public Service and Engaged Scholarship will host the eighth annual Public Interested Conference, a daylong program that brings students and alumni together.

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    Travis Lovett
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    Presidential Public Service Fellowship has broad reach

    In its eighth year, Harvard’s Presidential Public Service Fellowship offered both undergraduate and graduate students opportunities to give back to communities, agencies, and nonprofits.

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    President Bacow, Harmann Singh (center), Sarah Bourland.
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    Growing up in Cleveland set Finch’s trajectory

    Jay Finch attended a conference at the Harvard Kennedy School that brought undergraduate sophomores from diverse backgrounds to campus for a weekend introduction to graduate school in public service. The conference changed his path as a public servant.

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    HKS Student, Jay Finch,
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    College grad finds ‘endless’ opportunities in public service

    Omar Khoshafa ’17 has been named this year’s Harvard Presidential City of Boston Fellow.

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    Removing barriers to public service

    Harvard College announced a $12.1 million grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to boost the College’s efforts to develop the next generation of public service leaders.

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    ‘Call of Service’ award recognizes Nihad Awad

    Nihad Awad, co-founder and executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), will deliver the keynote and receive an award at Phillips Brooks House Association’s Robert Coles “Call of Service” Lecture and Award.

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    Questions and concerns about America’s future

    The Institute of Politics at Harvard opened up the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum to students’ questions and concerns about America.

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    Working in the service of others

    The sixth annual Public Interested Conference brought together nearly 150 Harvard alumni who shared their experiences in the public service sector.

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    New Harvard fellowship puts public service in spotlight

    The College’s new Harvard Presidential City of Boston Fellowship will create paths to meaningful public service opportunities in Boston City Hall.

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    Unlimited resolve

    Doaa Abu Elyounes is a blind Arab-Israeli student who is graduating from HLS with an LL.M. degree.

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    A focus on veterans

    Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership hosted a day of service for students to give back to veterans in the community.

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    Institute of Politics, 50 years in

    As the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School celebrates its 50th anniversary, alumni reflect on the important influence it had on their lives.

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    My buddy

    Juniors Fatima Bishtawi and Amanda Mozea made lasting connections through the Best Buddies program.

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    Presidential Public Service Fellows tackle big issues

    Combating pregnancy discrimination. Reducing racial disparities in obesity rates. Working on the front lines of the opiate epidemic. These are a few of the experiences undertaken by Harvard’s Presidential Public Service Fellows. The deadline to apply for the 2016 fellowships is Feb. 8.

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    A gift for public service

    New Mindich programs will support Harvard College students’ efforts to help others through public service.

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    A student call to service

    Ten Harvard Presidential Public Service Fellows who spent the summer scattered across the country working to help others. In an annual luncheon with President Drew Faust, the fellows shared their experiences.

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    A wellspring of hope

    Students in the Harvard University chapter of Engineers Without Borders have been rehabilitating and improving a potable water system in the rural town of Pinalito in the Dominican Republic.

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    Junior named Truman Scholar

    Tianhao He ’15, a Mather House sociology concentrator, was named a 2014 Truman Scholar. The annual prize, which recognizes college juniors with an interest in a career in public service, provides up to $30,000 toward graduate school.

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    Teaching on campus and off

    Harvard lecturer Tim McCarthy teaches a free American history course to low-income adult students as part of the Clemente Course in the Humanities, for which he now holds the first endowed chair.

    7 minutes
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    Grad students make impact

    A sample of how Harvard graduate students from the Law School, Kennedy School, Business School, and the School of Public Health used the tools they sharpened at Harvard to help build a better world.

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    Discovering the path to Harvard

    “In my first semester at Harvard, I worked with several other students to create a chapter of the national DREAM Program here. It was my first foray into working with youth, and I was excited to give Cambridge kids a taste of the campus that was so close to their homes,” says Harvard student Sara…

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    ‘Public Interested?’

    Joseph P. Kennedy III kicked off Wintersession’s “Public Interested?” conference on Saturday, speaking about his life in public service and urging audience members to create their own careers by following their passions.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Family values, in an orphanage

    Sonya Soni always felt called to serve the Indian orphanage that her family has run for four generations. Two years at Harvard Divinity School challenged her to rethink what the struggling community needs most.

    4 minutes
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    You’re all right, lefty

    On the baseball diamond, senior Brent Suter serves up pitches, and off the field he pitches service.

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    Encouraging a life’s work

    Harvard President Drew Faust met with a new crop of Presidential Public Service Fellows for a candid discussion of what the University can do to promote public service as a career and a calling.

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