A question-and-answer session with Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow and professor Noah Feldman discusses the arrival of former dean Elena Kagan on the U.S. Supreme Court, and the likely issues for the year ahead in American jurisprudence.
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.
If slavery and totalitarianism were the great moral issues of the 19th and 20th centuries, then the worldwide oppression of women and girls will be the defining issue of the 21st, said Nicholas D. Kristof, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, in a talk at Harvard Medical School’s Carl Walter Amphitheater.
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.
A two-day Kennedy School conference examined the need to integrate information technology training into the curriculum through a new, long-term initiative.
During a Harvard panel discussion, three authorities on international conflict discussed the complexities on the ground and in international law because of the spreading fog of warfare.
President Drew Faust and Eric Balderas ’13 paid a visit to Sen. Richard Durbin’s office on Capitol Hill Wednesday (Sept. 15) to express their gratitude for his support of the DREAM Act and his assistance in helping the Harvard student avoid deportation earlier this year.
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.
A Harvard doctoral student and two recent graduates worked in Kenya this summer with Harvard history professor Caroline Elkins to lay the foundation for a collaboration with Kenyan scholars to record the African nation’s experience gaining independence from Britain.
New book suggests that Advanced Placement teaching has expanded so much that it now serves many students who can’t handle the rigors of its coursework.
Harvard’s Committee on African Studies has received designation as a National Resource Center by the U.S. Department of Education, raising the profile of African studies at Harvard and gaining federal funding for programs and student efforts.
According to a paper to be published online in the Lancet on Aug. 16, the international community must discard the notion that cancer is a “disease of the rich” and approach it as a global priority.
More than a dozen high school teachers from around the area attended a workshop this week focused on the Cuban Missile Crisis, bringing new points of view to bear on high school students’ understanding of the event.
Study finds that bank foreclosures reduce a house’s price by an average of 27 percent, and nearby homes see their prices cut by an average of 1 percent.
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.
At Harvard, new Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan is remembered as an insightful intellectual, a tough-minded basketball player, and a colleague who had grit, graciousness, and patience.
As Elena Kagan becomes the 112th Supreme Court justice, she adds to an impressive list of now 23 justices who have one thing in common: Not only have they shaped the law in influential and historical ways — they all hail from Harvard.
Business neophytes at Harvard and MIT wrap up the annual case competition, stepping out of their everyday fields to learn about being business consultants.
A Harvard chemist and two graduate students from Harvard and MIT traveled to Liberia in June to conduct a workshop on science teaching for professors and students in the war-torn nation.
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