Newsmakers

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
Lifetime Achievement Kennedy School Professor William Hogan, research director of the Harvard Electricity Policy Group, was honored by the International Association for Energy Econo mics with its 2005 Award for Outstanding Con tri butions to the Field of Energy Economics and Its Literature. The award was presented in 2006.

Transatlantic Engagement For the next five years, Kennedy School Professor Robert Putnam will be spending half his time in Manchester, England, where he will be a visiting professor at the University of Manchester.

Risepak Wins Risepak, the Web portal that assistant professor Asim Khwaja developed in response to an earthquake-devastated northern Pakistan in the fall of 2005, was recently named the winner of the 2006 Stockholm Challenge Award in the public administration category. The award recognizes how information and communications technologies can empower people and improve living conditions.

VISITORS
IOP Visitors Former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson and former New Jersey Governor
Christine Todd Whitman served as IOP visiting fellows for the fall semester.

Economist Visits Dean Jamison, an expert in how the economics field impacts social welfare and global health, has been appointed the T &G Angelopoulos Visiting Professor of Public Health and International Development by the Kennedy School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He is professor of development economics at the University of California, San Francisco.

NEW HIRES AND PROMOTIONS
Direct Report The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy named Diane Malcolmson as its new executive director, replacing Fernande Raines, who will continue working at the center as a project manager.

Power On Samantha Power was recently named the Anna Lindh Professor of Global Leadership and Public Policy. Power joined the Kennedy School in 1998. She spent 2005 to 2006 working in the office of Senator Barack Obama and is currently writing a political biography of the UN ’Äôs Sergio Vieira de Mello.

New Title The Center for Public Leadership’Äôs Barbara Kellerman was named to a new lectureship: the James MacGregor Burns Lectureship.

Beam Him Up Scott Leland MPP 1992 was promoted to executive director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. Leland, who served as assistant director for 18 months, replaces the retiring Dow Davis.

Kudos for Bohnet Iris Bohnet, associate professor of public policy and faculty chair of the Women and Public Policy Program, was recently granted tenure. Bohnet ’Äôs research focuses on behavioral decision analysis and negotiation.

STUDENT NEWS
Summer Success A handful of Kennedy School students working as News21 interns this summer saw the fruits of their labor: a documentary based on the research and reporting done by Katie Connolly MPP 2007 and a team of Berkeley journalism students on the U.S. military abroad aired on CNN during the week of September 11.

A KENNEDY SCHOOL WELCOME
New Beginning The Kennedy School welcomed former Harvard President Larry Summers to its campus in July. Summers will begin teaching at the Kennedy School next fall.

Dean Returns After stepping down as chancellor of UCLA, former Kennedy School dean Al Carnesale is back at the school for the year. He will return to UCLA in September 2007 to teach.

ALUMNI TO WATCH
Manny’Äôs Back In July, Manny Stefanakis MPA 1992 returned to the Kennedy School and took over as the new director of MPA programs. Stefanakis previously worked in the school's career services office and spent several years serving on admissions committees.

Pennsylvania Ave. Bound Frederick Kacher MPP 1997 was chosen to join the 2006’Äì2007 class of White House Fellows. Fellows spend a year working in the federal government, often as special assistants to senior members of the White House.

Simon Says The American Political Science Association gave its Herbert A. Simon Best Book Award to Georgetown philosophy professor Henry Richardson MPP 1981 for his book, Democratic Autonomy: Public Reasoning About the Ends of Policy. The award is given annually to the best book on public administration.

At Large
Vietnam Visitor Last fall, Senator Chuck Hagel stopped by the Kennedy School-managed public policy Fulbright School in Vietnam, where he was briefed on the school ’Äôs emergence as a center of policy analysis and public policy teaching.