Pippa Norris receives APSA’s 2019 Charles Merriam Award

Pippa Norris is the recipient of the American Political Science Association’s 2019 Charles E. Merriam Award. The prize is awarded biennially to recognize a person “whose published work and career represent a significant contribution to the art of government through the application of social science research.”

Pippa Norris headshot

GSAS Awards Centennial Medal to Joseph Nye

At a ceremony on Wednesday, May 29, 2019, Harvard University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) awarded the Centennial Medal to Joseph Nye, PhD ’64. Nye, University Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, is a world-renowned authority on foreign policy and power.

Joseph Nye

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Juan Manuel Santos to deliver HKS graduation address

Juan Manuel Santos, former president of the Republic of Colombia and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, will deliver the graduation address to the Harvard Kennedy School Class of 2019. 

Photo of Juan Manuel Santos in the JFK Jr. Forum

Japanese Government honors HKS Professors Ash Carter and John Holdren

The Japanese government is honoring two Kennedy School faculty members. Ash Carter is being decorated with the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun. John Holdren is being decorated with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star.

Headshots of Ash Carter and John Holdren side by side

Harvard's Michael Kremer Awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics

Civil Rights Activist and ‘me too.’ Founder Tarana Burke to Receive 2019 Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award

Remembering Guillermo Perry

Harvard Kennedy School’s Women and Public Policy Program announces 2019-2020 leaders in practice and research fellows

Harvard Kennedy School receives $1 million gift to establish first Tunisian graduate fellowship program


HKS announces new faculty appointments and promotions

Introducing the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School's Fall 2019 Resident Fellows

Kennedy School faculty remember Martin Feldstein

Pippa Norris receives APSA’s 2019 Charles Merriam Award

Harvard Kennedy School announces 2019 Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award call for nominations

GSAS Awards Centennial Medal to Joseph Nye

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Juan Manuel Santos to Deliver Harvard Kennedy School Graduation Address

Japanese Government honors Harvard Kennedy School Professors Ash Carter and John Holdren

David Deming appointed faculty director of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School

Kennedy School Announces 2019 Alumni Award Winners

Nancy Gibbs appointed faculty director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy

Harvard Kennedy School launches Public Leadership Credential

Asim Ijaz Khwaja appointed faculty director of the Center for International Development at Harvard Kennedy School

Juan Manuel Santos, former president of Colombia, to deliver the 2019 Graduation Address at Harvard Kennedy School

M-RCBG releases new working paper on Revolution in Data: How new technologies are upending borrowing