Jason Furman has been named Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), it was announced today by HKS Dean Douglas Elmendorf. Furman served as chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) from 2013 to 2017. At the time of his appointment, President Obama called Furman “one of…

The Center for Public Leadership (CPL) at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) has named civil rights activist and U.S. Representative John Lewis (Georgia, 5th District) as this year’s recipient of the Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award. The award honors Congressman Lewis for his decades-long crusade to protect and secure human rights and civil liberties for all Americans.…

Harvard Divinity School Professor Janet Gyatso has been named among this year’s class of national and international leaders elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Gyatso, the Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies and Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs, is a specialist in Buddhist studies with concentration on Tibetan and South Asian…

Sara Bleich, professor of public health policy at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, recently co-authored a Perspective in the New England Journal of Medicine that offered ideas for modifying the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to promote population health. Why do you think SNAP needs to be updated? SNAP is one of the…

Last week, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University, and Luis Almagro, Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), signed a collaborative agreement to realize the objectives of the United Nations International Decade for People of African…

A renowned community organizer told a rapt audience that organizing—bringing people with a common purpose together to create change—could be an effective way to improve people’s health at a time when political realities appear to threaten it. Marshall Ganz, senior lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and…

Ban Ki-moon M.P.A. ’84, former Secretary-General of the United Nations and a Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) alumnus as an Edward S. Mason Fellow, has been named the Angelopoulos Global Public Leaders Fellow at the Kennedy School, it was announced today by HKS Dean Douglas Elmendorf. He will begin his Fellowship this month and will serve…

A series of lectures and events hosted by Harvard University from April 24 – 28 will explore the multiple dimensions of climate change, as well as its impact on people and the planet. The week-long program will give the Harvard community, as well as the interested public, exposure to some of the best scholarship and…

Charles Stang, professor of early Christian thought, has been appointed the next director of the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) at Harvard Divinity School, beginning July 1. He will succeed Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology, who is stepping down after leading the Center for…

On April 4, the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Making Caring Common (MCC) Project and Game Change: The Patriots Anti-Violence Partnership will hold an Askwith Forums panel to examine the state of sexual violence in schools and how both public and private actors are working to encourage a safer educational sphere. Sexual Misconduct is Common…

The Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) has released its 2017 Climate Change Deep Dive Report. The report presents a summary of ideas from ALI’s Deep Dive event, a two-day intensive immersion with a focus on problem-solving and practical applications of knowledge. The 2017 Climate Change Deep Dive was chaired by Professor Forest Reinhardt of…

Both secular and faith-inspired international humanitarian organizations would benefit from a higher level of religious literacy to understand the religious dimensions of the contexts in which they work, concludes a new report by researchers from Oxfam and the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School. The findings in the report are the result of a…

This spring, the Harvard Art Museums will present “The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820,” a special exhibition that brings together many long-forgotten icons of American culture. It will present new findings on this unique space — equal parts laboratory, picture gallery, and lecture hall—that stood at the center of artistic…

An elderly woman struggles to find food, clean water, and a toilet in her slum in India. A Brazilian woman, frightened by violence in her poor section of town, refuses to let a public health worker into her house to check for disease-causing mosquitoes. A young homeless mother in Boston needs shelter for herself and…

Karen Emmons, Professor and Dean for Academic Affairs at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and an expert in cancer prevention interventions, says that knowledge we already have about ways to prevent cancer is not being used as effectively as it could be. Emmons and Graham Colditz of Washington University wrote about the issue in…

A new arsenal of cleaner, quieter, and climate-friendly landscaping equipment will soon join the electric carts and hybrid police cars already traversing Harvard Yard. Campus Services is equipping crews in the Yard with electric, battery-powered leaf blowers, grass trimmers, and tree pruners. These tools are much less noisy than conventional equipment and emit no air pollution.…

Speakers from all over the world will come together on April 8, 2017 for Harvard Graduate Council’s Leadership Conference. The event includes TEDtalk style presentations, panel discussions, and problem solving scenarios. Speakers from industries such as social development, business, finance, entertainment will discuss key leadership attributes that lead to success. Speakers include Sri Raj Bhowmik…