One shepherded accused people through the criminal justice system at the federal Public Defender’s Office in Washington,D.C.;another helped Medicaid enrollees and others denied treatment and medication cut through red tape to get services;and athird worked at under-resourced rural schools in the Navajo and Hopi nations.These are some of the summer projects that recipients of this year’s Presidential Public Service Fellowships shared with President Claudine Gay,faculty,and staff during agathering at the Harvard Faculty Club on Friday.Launched in 2011,the initiative gives students the chance to get exposure to community service programs and encourages them to consider public service careers.About adozen or so from across the University are selected and receive financial support to work in fields such as education,public health,government,and social services,where the need—and challenges—are often most acute.Hilary Adeleke’24,a history of science concentrator with asecondary in global health and health policy,said her summer work“really affirmed that you can marry medicine policy and sustainable healthcare within alow-income context.”One of five Harvard College fellows,Adeleke worked as acase-manager intern for Boston Healthcare for the Homeless,connecting clients with critical services.She also volunteered at St.Francis House in downtown Boston providing care at the organization’s foot clinic—a common medical problem area for those experiencing homelessness.“It was just really eye-opening to me.Although medicine can be seen as objective,it’s not necessarily apolitical,and you really see the impact of policy on these people’s everyday lives,”Adeleke said. 查看详细>>

The Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University announces the appointment of Kanaka Rajan as its first faculty member hired within the recently launched institute.As afounding faculty member at the Kempner,Rajan will serve as an institute investigator.Rajan will also have adual appointment,serving as amember of the faculty in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School“We are thrilled to have Dr.Rajan join the Kempner,where she will play akey role in helping to shape and advance the institute’s research program,”said Kempner Co-Director Bernardo Sabatini.“She is atrue leader in the field,using innovative techniques to tackle big,difficult questions,and expanding the possibilities for how we use artificial intelligence and machine learning to understand the enduring mysteries of the brain.”“Computational approaches to understanding brain function is afrontier area of research,”said David Ginty,chair of the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School.“Kanaka Rajan has already made enormous contributions to this area of research,and we are fortunate that she will join our community at Harvard Medical School to further advance and galvanize the field of neurobiology.We are poised to make progress in this exciting area of research in partnership with the Kempner Institute.” 查看详细>>

The Harvard Art Museums have appointed Micha Winkler Thomas as their new deputy director.Winkler Thomas will serve in asenior leadership position,working alongside the director,and will oversee several of the museums’administrative divisions.A leader in the museum,government,nonprofit,and cultural sectors,Winkler Thomas brings to the museums her extensive experience in executive leadership,strategic vision,innovation with analysis,operational efficiency,and excellent customer service.For more than 20 years,Winkler Thomas has managed adiverse range of high-profile projects,teams,and technology.She begins her new role at Harvard on Sept.18.Winkler Thomas is currently the deputy director for strategy and chief operating officer at The Phillips Collection in Washington,D.C.,where she has worked since 2019.In this position,she has honed her skills in executive leadership,directing the museum’s strategic,operational,and digital planning initiatives,such as the museum’s five-year strategic and operations plan and the celebration of the museum’s 100th anniversary in 2021.She has played akey part in developing museum initiatives around diversity,partnerships,outreach to new audiences,digital opportunities,and data collection and analysis,as well as overseeing the daily operations of the museum,including such areas as information technology,facilities,security,admissions,the shop,and the cafe.Prior to her work at the Phillips Collection,she served in various roles at the U.S.Capitol Visitor Center,Smithsonian Institution,and National Gallery of Art in Washington,D.C.“Micha brings awealth of museum experience and adeep commitment to the successful implementation and execution of strategic planning,”said Martha Tedeschi,the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museums.“At atime when we have just finished writing our own five-year strategic plan and received re-accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums(AAM),Micha is uniquely qualified to help us take the next steps toward the realization of our institutional goals.At the same time,I am thrilled to welcome such aseasoned museum veteran to our team at an exciting time in our audience expansion and development,following the implementation of our new policy of free admission for all visitors,which began on June 23.I look forward to her fresh ideas and perspectives as we navigate this new chapter in our museums’long history.”“I am delighted and gratified to join the staff of the Harvard Art Museums as deputy director,because it combines my passion for art history with my skills in directing and leading an operation that focuses on avisitor’s educational and cultural experience,”said Winkler Thomas.“I am inspired by the museums’mission and the Harvard Art Museums’unique role in the Greater Boston area,serving as an invaluable resource for both the campus and the community.The museums’collections are astounding,and the power of those collections to promote critical looking and thinking is what drew me to this position.I am looking forward to embracing the challenges and opportunities presented in this exciting new role in such avibrant cultural area.” 查看详细>>

Harvard Business School has announced the cohort of Executive Fellows for the 2022-23 academic year.With its largest cohort yet,36,the Executive Fellows Program seeks to leverage the expertise of outstanding practitioners to enhance teaching and learning at the School.All fellows,including alumni,partner with at least one HBS faculty member to bring their business experience into the HBS community.The fellows contribute to the School by working with faculty and M.B.A.students on curricular and co-curricular activities.These include,but are not limited to,co-teaching course sessions in the elective curriculum,offering career counseling and development coaching,co-leading Short Intensive Programs(SIPs),and delivering workshop sessions.They also bring their expertise to the School’s HBS Online and Executive Education programs by collaborating with faculty in case development and other research projects.Fellow appointments range from afew months to one year and may be extended.“Since the inception of the Executive Fellows program,we have had the good fortune to engage with an impressive array of experienced practitioners who contribute in many ways to the HBS mission of educating leaders who make adifference in the world,”said Professor Len Schlesinger,chair of the program.“This cohort of Executive Fellows,our largest yet,will provide important,first-hand perspectives on real world challenges and opportunities that will enrich the learning of our entire community.” 查看详细>>

The Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School has announced the appointment of five Hauser Leaders for the fall 2022 semester.Celebrating its eighth year,the Hauser Leaders Program brings distinguished leadership practitioners from across the public,nonprofit,and private sectors to CPL to engage with students,faculty,and the wider Harvard community.“At atime when many challenges stem from leadership shortcomings,these Hauser Leaders bring to campus living examples of principled and effective public leadership,”said Deval Patrick,co-director for the Center for Public Leadership and professor of the practice of public leadership.“Though from different experiences,these leaders share values,values applied in practical ways,that they can now share with the Kennedy School community.”Throughout the semester,the Hauser Leaders meet individually with students,give guest lectures,and lead public events on campus.“The Hauser Leaders Program is core to CPL’s mission,”said Hannah Riley Bowles,co-director for the Center for Public Leadership and Roy E.Larsen Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management.“Our students and faculty are grateful for the opportunity to learn from these distinguished leaders in elected office,grassroots organizations,the media,and public advocacy.”The fall 2022 Hauser Leaders are:Jane Harman,J.D.’69 Distinguished Fellow and President Emerita,Wilson Center;U.S.Representative(CA-36)(1993-1999;2010-2011)David Ignatius,A.B.’72 Foreign Affairs Columnist,The Washington Post;novelist;Fisher Family Fellow,Future of Diplomacy Project(2010);Visiting Professor,HKS(spring 2012)Michael Lomax President&CEO,United Negro College Fund Leni Robredo Vice President of the Philippines(2016-2022)Dov Seidman,J.D.’92 Founder and Executive Chairman,the HOW Institute for Society and LRN Full biographies for fall 2022 Hauser Leaders can be found here,and events featuring the Hauser Leaders will be posted here.The Hauser Leaders Program is made possible by the generous support of Rita E.Hauser and Gustave M.Hauser. 查看详细>>

Thirteen faculty members have been awarded 2022 Walter Channing Cabot Fellowships for their outstanding publications:Dan Carpenter,Allie S.Freed Professor of Government,“Democracy by Petition:Popular Politics in Transformation,1790-1870,”(Cambridge:Harvard University Press,2021).Teju Cole,Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing,“Black Paper:Writing in aDark Time,”(Chicago:University of Chicago Press,2021).David Cutler,Otto Eckstein Professor of Economics,“Survival of the City:Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation,”(New York:Penguin Press,2021).Sam Gershman,Professor of Psychology,“What Makes Us Smart:The Computational Logic of Human Cognition,”(Princeton:Princeton University Press,2021).Ed Glaeser,Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics;Chair of the Department of Economics,“Survival of the City:Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation,”(New York:Penguin Press,2021).Claudia Goldin,Henry Lee Professor of Economics,“Career and Family:Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity,”(Princeton:Princeton University Press,2021).Jeffrey Hamburger,Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture,“Color in Cusanus Stuttgart,”(Germany:Hiersemann Verlag,2021).Jinah Kim,George P.Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art,“Garland of Visions:Color,Tantra,and aMaterial History of Indian Painting,”(Oakland:University of California Press,2021).Tiya Miles,Michael Garvey Professor of History and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor,“All That She Carried:The Journey of Ashley’s Sack,a Black Family Keepsake,”(New York:Random House,2021).Luke Menand,Lee Simpkins Family Professor of Arts and Sciences;Anne T.and Robert M.Bass Professor of English,“The Free World:Art and Thought in the Cold War,”(New York:Farrar,Straus and Giroux,2021).Serhii Plokhii,Mykhailo S.Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History,“Nuclear Folly:A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis,”(New York:Norton,2021).Sarah Richardson,Professor of the History of Science and of Studies of Women,Gender,and Sexuality,“The Maternal Imprint:The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects,”(Chicago:University of Chicago Press,2021).Victor Seow,Assistant Professor of the History of Science,“Carbon Technocracy:Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia,”(Chicago:University of Chicago Press,2021). 查看详细>>

Lisa J.Kewley has been named the director of the Center for Astrophysics|Harvard&Smithsonian(CfA),effective July 1,2022.A world leader in the theoretical modeling and observation of star-forming and active galaxies,Kewley brings 20 years of experience in astrophysics to the role.Kewley currently serves as the director of ASTRO 3D,a$40-million Australian Research Council Center of Excellence that seeks to understand the evolution of matter,light and the elements,from the Big Bang to the present day.She is committed to equity in the workplace,and recently achieved a50:50 gender balance amongst ASTRO 3D staff through asuite of recruitment and retention initiatives.She also is aprofessor of astronomy and astrophysics at the Australian National University and an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow.As director of the Center for Astrophysics,Kewley will oversee about 800 Harvard and Smithsonian staff,in eight scientific divisions across CfA’s nine major scientific facilities and institutes,which include the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Arizona,the Submillimeter Array in Hawaii,and the Chandra X-Ray Center in Massachusetts.“For decades,the Center for Astrophysics has given the world profound insights into the cosmos,”said Lonnie Bunch,secretary of the Smithsonian.“It is exciting to welcome Dr.Kewley back to the site of her first fellowship,where the Smithsonian can once again benefit from her leadership and brilliance as we seek to understand the fundamental nature of the universe.”Kewley’s seminal contributions include understanding the gas physics in star-forming galaxies,investigating galaxies containing actively accreting supermassive black holes and tracing the star-formation and oxygen history of galaxies over the past 12 billion years.“Professor Kewley’s appointment is asource of excitement for the Center for Astrophysics,the Harvard College Observatory,the Department of Astronomy and the broader Smithsonian and Harvard communities,”said Claudine Gay,Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard.“A versatile and visionary scientist,a dedicated and inspiring teacher and mentor and an exemplary colleague,community builder and institutional citizen,Kewley will undoubtedly build Astronomy and Astrophysics at Harvard to further strength and distinction and provide an even more important resource for scientific inquiry.We are truly delighted that she is joining our academic community.”Kewley is aformer NASA Hubble Fellow,an international member of the National Academy of Sciences and afellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences.She also is aformer CfA fellow,a position she held from 2001 to 2004.She is arecipient of the James Craig Watson Medal,the Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy and the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy.“It is an honor to become director of the CfA,said Kewley.“The CfA is atremendously exciting organization with expertise across the entire spectrum from millimeter and radio waves to X-rays.I plan to bring people together from across these different areas to answer some of astronomy’s biggest questions,and at the same time,ensuring apositive and supportive environment for all CfA members.” 查看详细>>

Harvard University’s Advanced Leadership Initiative(ALI)announced the selection of its 2022 fellowship cohort,which is notable for its significant international representation,professional,and gender diversity.Nineteen of the group’s fellows are joining the program from 15 countries outside the United States,both records for ALI,which begins its 14th year this month.These extraordinary leaders will take part in ALI’s multidisciplinary,social impact-focused program during the coming year.This year’s cohort brings together awide array of professional leadership experience from the not-for-profit,public,and private sectors,notably with experts in media,government,diplomacy,and deeply accomplished social entrepreneurs.Included among this year’s program participants are ten leaders from Latin America,the most-ever in an ALI fellowship cohort.These leaders will bring global perspective to the program and to Harvard’s campus.ALI aims to unleash the power of experienced leaders to solve society’s most pressing challenges.The ALI fellowship program encourages its leaders to engage across the entirety of the University’s schools and programs,bringing unique perspectives and experiences to share with both students and the greater Harvard community.Under the leadership of Meredith B.Rosenthal,ALI faculty chair and C.Boyden Gray Professor of Health Economics and Policy at the Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health,ALI provides ayear-long program of social impact leadership learning and practice.Over 500 leaders have completed the program and are driving progress on awide array of social impact issues such as racial justice,climate change,education and health.ALI has continued to operate through the pandemic,and will be starting virtually then welcoming its cohort to the Harvard campus in-person in late January.“The expertise and array of global perspectives this cohort will bring to ALI comes at acritical time as the world grapples with the pandemic,climate change,threats to democracy and other large-scale challenges.We are so fortunate to have these leaders join ALI during this pivotal year,”Rosenthal said. 查看详细>>

The Harvard Innovation Labs,an ecosystem that supports Harvard students and select alumni in exploring innovation and entrepreneurship,is hosting its first annual Launch Lab XStartup Showcase on May 23 at 5:15 p.m.The event will feature five-minute pitches from the startups that participated in the inaugural Launch Lab Xaccelerator program for Harvard alumni-led ventures.More than 260 ventures from 36 countries applied to Launch Lab X.In September 2018,13 startups began the nine-month program,which was divided into three 90-day sprints.Each sprint culminated in apitch and feedback session with investors,prospective customers,and industry leaders,giving teams the time,guidance,and 360-degree view necessary to transform materially into sustainable,disruptive businesses with real-world impact.To push progress,ventures gained access to expert coaching within alike-minded community,and developed roadmaps designed explicitly for their businesses. 查看详细>>

China learned from other nations as it modernized its economy and embraced aspects of capitalism,but knowledge flows in both directions.Now,one Harvard scholar thinks there may be lessons for the rest of the world in agreat Chinese success story:slashing poverty.Between 1990 and 2015,China reduced extreme poverty by 94 percent,a change so dramatic and affecting so many people that it accounts for fully half of the global reduction in extreme poverty(defined as living on less than$1.25 per day)over that time.In fact,according to senior lecturer on government Nara Dillon,the United Nation’s 2015 announcement that it had achieved its Millennium Development Goal of halving global extreme poverty would have been impossible without the gains in China.Dillon said her research on China’s antipoverty programs may have limited value in developed nations where such extreme poverty is uncommon,but it likely has important implications in the developing world,where not only is extreme poverty common,but where the agricultural landscape of many small subsistence farms mirrors China’s.“I think it’s most relevant to other developing countries where farmers are still alarge part of the population,”Dillon said.Dillon’s work is part of Harvard’s broad intellectual engagement with China that dates back to the 1800s,when famed plant collector Ernest H.Wilson began gathering samples of East Asian flora for the Arnold Arboretum and Chinese scholar Ko K’un-hua became the first instructor to teach the Chinese language here.This week,President Larry Bacow becomes the latest Harvard leader to visit China.His trip,scheduled for spring break week,from Sunday through March 23,will take him to Hong Kong,Shanghai,and Beijing,where he’ll deliver aspeech at Peking University.He will visit Japan after leaving China.After Harvard’s initial engagement with China,the ties expanded through the 20th century as early,tenuous connections strengthened and diversified into arobust scholarly and intellectual exchange that led to the founding,more than 60 years ago,of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.Named for John King Fairbank,a founding figure of Chinese studies in the U.S.,the center was the primary home for Chinese study at Harvard.Its director,Michael Szonyi,the Frank Wen-hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History,said the scholarly connections between Harvard and China have overflowed the center’s walls and now encompass all of Harvard’s Schools and awide array of disciplines.The Fairbank Center’s role remains central,said Szonyi—who visited China 10 times last year—but in many cases it is one that coordinates and assists the work of scholars in the University’s disparate Schools. 查看详细>>