Devah Pager, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, a groundbreaking scholar whose research shone a light on the consequences of discrimination, passed away on November 2, 2018. The Harvard Kennedy School community mourns her loss. 

Pager, who held appointments both at HKS and in the Sociology Department at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was also the director of the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy at the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy.

Read more about Devah Pager, including reflections from faculty colleagues and students, and the impact of her research in the full Harvard Kennedy School statement, The Harvard Gazette news story, and The New York Times.

Harvard Kennedy School Professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad discusses the role religion and ethics have played in his life at the "Life Matters" talk at the Smith Center hosted by Muslim Chaplain Khalil Abdur-Rashid.
Read The Harvard Gazette profile. 

More from Khalil Gibran Muhammad:

• Were the founders against slavery all along?
  The New York Times 
• State violence and racial justice: ‘The Hate U Give’ could sear on screens
  Christian Science Monitor 
• Innocence erased: how society keeps black boys from being boys
  The Washington Post 

Harvard Kennedy School was proud to participate in the Harvard Votes Challenge, a university-wide competition between participating schools that seeks to increase voter registration among eligible students. As a school devoted to public service and good governance, we aim high when it comes to democracy. This fall, HKS succeeded in getting over 90 percent of eligible students registered to vote through TurboVote.

Learn more about early voting in Massachusetts.

Politico, October 12, 2018
Fear and anger over the GOP’s health policies are driving a majority of Democratic voters to the polls in an effort to flip control of the House and put the brakes on the Trump administration’s agenda, according to a new POLITICO-Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health poll.

Quoted: Robert Blendon

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Join the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy for thought-provoking seminars and discussion.

Mondays from 12:00 – 1:30 PM 
Light lunch at noon
Presentations begin at 12:15 PM

See the entire Fall semester lineup here.