Tag: Public Service

  • Nation & World

    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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  • Nation & World

    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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  • Nation & World

    Design School students lend a helping eye to nonprofits

    Six Graduate School of Design (GSD) students have been spending their summer applying design skills that they spend the rest of the year acquiring. In communities throughout the area, from Boston’s Chinatown to Lowell to Hyannis, the students are turning theory into reality as they go ahead with proposals that won them summer funding.

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  • Nation & World

    PBHA program turns kids into counselors

    As summer draws to a close and young people across the area begin to think about returning to school, a group of more than 1,000 students ranging in age from 6 to 21 will head back to the classroom having spent another full summer with the Summer Urban Program (SUP) of the Phillips Brooks House…

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  • Nation & World

    Sackler smacks of fun for Boston-area kids

    University museums as a summer fun destination for kids? At Harvard University they are. For the past several years, Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) has offered free museum activities for children visiting from Boston-area summer camps.

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  • Nation & World

    Summer Academy renews commitment

    The free ice cream wasn’t the primary draw of the day, though it was a definite plus. No, on Aug. 9, a jubilant crowd of 100 Cambridge teenagers at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School (CRLS) celebrated first and foremost the successful end of six weeks of summer school.

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