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

President Obama formally announces opening of Fulbright University Vietnam

Harvard Environmental Economics Program Awards Student Prizes for the 2015-2016 Academic Year

Bush-Obama regulations fail to generate sustained gains in student achievement

Harvard Kennedy School's Government Performance Lab Receives $2.16M Grant

David Ellwood Named Director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy

Nicco Mele Named as New Director of the Shorenstein Center at Harvard Kennedy School

Study of Lawrence Public Schools Reveals Effective Turnaround Strategies

Independent Report Recommends how FIFA Needs to Manage the Far-Reaching Human Rights Risks of its Global Enterprise

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to Deliver Graduation Address at Harvard Kennedy School

Stanley Fischer Named Winners of 2016 Neustadt and Schelling Awards

18 Tribal Programs Named Semifinalists for Harvard’s 2016 Honoring Nations Award

The Associated Press Wins the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting from Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center

Harvard Kennedy School’s Future of Diplomacy Project Selects Former UK Shadow Foreign Secretary as Senior Fellow

Shorenstein Center Announces Six Finalists for 2016 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

Forty-five States Increased Academic Proficiency Standards between 2011 and 2015

Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics Announces Spring Resident and Visiting Fellows

Ash Center launches 2016 call for applications for Innovations in American Government Awards

Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center Announces Spring 2016 Fellows

New Global Growth Projections Predict the Decade of India

Harvard Kennedy School Names Khalil Gibran Muhammad Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy