By Cristina Garmendia, News Writer, MPP ‘13 This is the first part of a new Harvard Citizen series: Politics in Practice. This week, Cristina Garmendia interviewed Boston-area alumni of the Rappaport Fellowship, which matches students from area graduate programs to state and local government positions for a summer. She asks four graduates who continued […]

By Imran Sarwar, News Writer, MPP ‘13 Preliminary tests of a new malaria vaccine, RTS,S, have raised hopes about widespread prevention of the disease, especially in infants and young children in Sub-Saharan Africa. On 18th October, the results of the vaccine’s phase 3 trial were released to the public, establishing that the vaccination gave protection […]

By Ryoji Watanabe, News Writer, MC/MPA ‘12 Distant trumpets and drums accompanied the Harvard Kennedy School parade as it marched across Harvard Yard, alongside cheering crowds drenched in the rain. Jubilant students arrived in front of Widener Library and were greeted by cameras flashing from all directions, bright lights shining from above, and a huge […]

 By Khaleel Seecharan Charles Seigel, an MC/MPA ’12 candidate student, noticed  that the numbers for the Mid-Career class did not add up on September 13th, 2011 when the Kennedy School student election results were announced. While there are approximately 196 students in this year’s Mid-Career cohort, the results indicated 212 votes were cast for the […]

 By Dharana Rijal, News Writer, MPP ‘13 Hundreds of students marched from Boston Common to Dewey Square on Monday October 10th to show solidarity with the “Occupy Boston” movement, which has seen demonstrations against a range of issues in the past few days — including unemployment, economic inequality, and the relationship between government and financial […]

By Imran Sarwar, News Writer, MPP ‘13 On October 1st, Pakistan’s anti-terrorism court sentenced Malik Mumtaz Qadri to death for his self-confessed murderer of former governor of Punjab province, Salman Taseer. The case has become a political flashpoint for the country, where fundamental clashes between secular and religious ideologies have seeped gradually into nearly every […]

By Khaleel Seecharan, Culture Editor, MPP ‘13 Timothy Roemer, former U.S. Ambassador to India and member of the U.S. House of Representatives, visited the Harvard Kennedy School for the week of 10/7. Between speaking events, he sat down with the Citizen to answer a few questions: HC: What was the most challenging part of your […]

By Matt Bieber, News Features Writer, MPP ‘11 Peter Singer is perhaps the world’s most influential philosopher. He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. At the outset of your recent book, The Life You Can Save, you lay out two goals: to challenge readers to think about their obligations to […]

By Shloka Nath, News Editor, MPP ‘13 In May this year, Malcom Gladwell wrote a piece for the New Yorker on what it means to innovate. He painted the picture of a 24-year-old entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who, in 1979, visited the legendary headquarters of Xerox in Silicon Valley, staffed at the time with the […]

By Alexander Remington, Sports Writer, MPP ‘13 MPP2 Tim Marlowe is a man on a mission to get Kennedy School students to relax. “I find that in the outlay of student activities, there’s a lot of seriousness, things I want to put on my resume.” Marlowe told me. “Even when people drink, they’re serious about […]

  By Cristina Garmendia, Culture and News Writer, MPP ‘13 As Kennedy students toil over problem sets and cringe at political discourse, many of us may idly daydream of alternate careers. Writer Cristina Garmendia interviews baker-extraordinaire and business owner Renee McLeod of Petsi Pies for a reality check. Renee McLeod has been baking since she […]

By Alexander Remington, Culture Writer, MPP ‘13 When I was growing up, I loved Apple and idolized Steve Jobs. To a large extent, loving Steve Jobs means accepting his reality and denying all evidence to the contrary. This is why journalists often spoke of the “reality distortion zone” that emanated from him. This is why […]