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Tag: Harvard Kennedy School
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Campus & Community
HKS receives $1 million
Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government announced a $1 million gift from the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Court. The gift will be used to launch a new graduate fellowship that will support emerging leaders from the United Arab Emirates.
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Nation & World
Bright ideas
Harvard authorities across many fields offer their ideas on how to get the nation’s lagging economy back on track.
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Science & Tech
Doubting Thomas nation
Why aren’t you listening? Scientists discuss the difficulty of transferring scientific consensus to the public.
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Nation & World
The way forward
Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey’s minister of foreign affairs, delivered messages of cooperation and inclusiveness while elaborating on his six principles for Turkey’s future at a Harvard Kennedy School forum.
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Nation & World
Gordon Brown’s prescription
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s prescription for a shaken world economy: Coordinate action, and write a global economic constitution that reflects morality while acknowledging business needs.
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Nation & World
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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Campus & Community
Gordon Brown: UK and US must coordinate economic policy
Gordon Brown warns in speech at Harvard that America and Europe risk a decade of high unemployment and low growth unless new policies are urgently taken to improve global co-operation.
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Nation & World
Telling it like it was
Three former spokespersons discussed their time on the press firing line when they worked in the White House.
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Campus & Community
Mallika Kaur awarded Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship
The Harvard Committee on General Scholarships has awarded Mallika Kaur, M.P.P. ’10, the 2010-11 Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship, which will support her travel, study, and writing on gender issues in Indian-administered Kashmir.
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Campus & Community
‘From Harvard Square to the Oval Office’ open for applications
“From Harvard Square to the Oval Office” is now accepting applications. The program, run by the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School, is open to all Harvard University graduate students, including international students.
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Campus & Community
IOP welcomes Gordon Brown as visiting fellow
Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics welcomes former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown as a visiting fellow.
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Nation & World
Huffington offers social media solution
Author and syndicated columnist Arianna Huffington discussed her recent book, her popular website, and what she sees as ways forward for America at a Harvard Kennedy School talk.
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Campus & Community
Crossing that bridge
On Sept. 14, Kalan Chang was sworn in as an American citizen, thanks in part to Harvard’s Bridge to Learning and Literacy program, which also connected him with an internship at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
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Nation & World
A new program to shake up education
The first class of students in Harvard’s newest doctoral program gets ready to help transform public schools in America.
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Nation & World
Lending a guiding hand
Child welfare advocates from around the country gathered at the Harvard Kennedy School to share strategies for improving the lot of troubled children across the nation.
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Campus & Community
Kindergarten skills pay off in big bucks
Harvard-led study shows children, whether rich or poor, who were in top-scoring kindergarten classes back in the 1980s have grown up to earn about $1,000 more a year than their peers in weaker performing classes…
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Nation & World
Bunk or boon?
Harvard experts weigh in on a massive finance reform bill that draws praise, skepticism — and ire.
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Campus & Community
Harvard’s Institute of Politics announces fall fellows
Six individuals have been selected for fall resident fellowships at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics.
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Campus & Community
Belsky named managing director of Joint Center for Housing Studies
Eric S. Belsky, executive director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies, has been appointed managing director of the Center.
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Campus & Community
Six grad students named Rappaport Fellows
Six Harvard University graduate students are among the 13 local graduate students who will spend the summer working in key state agencies as Rappaport Public Policy Fellows.
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Campus & Community
Soccer as global village
In an increasingly globalized world, soccer both benefits and suffers from a player’s ability to leave his homeland and compete on an international stage.
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Nation & World
The mystique of merit pay
Scholars, educators, and politicians gathered for a two-day seminar at Harvard Kennedy School to explore the complicated issue of performance pay in the nation’s public schools.
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Nation & World
Affordable housing advocate
Julie Leadbetter, a dedicated affordable housing advocate, arrived at Harvard Kennedy School’s (HKS) midcareer program eager to stretch her skills and forge new relationships with big thinkers. She’s leaving this spring with an M.C./M.P.A. degree and a first place award in a local affordable housing development competition.
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Campus & Community
Marie-Ange Bunga of HKS starts Congo Initiative at Harvard
Outgoing Harvard Kennedy School student Marie-Ange Bunga started the Congo Initiative at Harvard, aiming to increase awareness about the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and hopes her cause will live on in the next generation of concerned students.
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Campus & Community
HEEP awards 2009-10 student prizes
The Harvard Environmental Economics Program recently awarded four prizes to Harvard University students for the best research papers addressing a topic in environmental, energy, or resource economics.
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Campus & Community
HKS alumni honored
Three accomplished leaders have been named recipients of 2010 Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) alumni awards. The awards were presented during ceremonies at the School on Class Reunion Weekend (May 14-15).
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Arts & Culture
What they’re reading
A survey of top Harvard faculty shows what books they’re reading and enjoying on summer’s edge.
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Nation & World
Creating worldwide change
A Harvard Kennedy School degree program celebrates a decade of graduates who are having a major impact on international development.
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Campus & Community
From Ivy to military
ROTC commissioning ceremony honors students for their “honor, courage, respect, and selfless service.”
