Celebrating Our Graduates
It is one of the most exciting times of the year on the Kennedy School campus. Our community is coming together this week to celebrate our graduates’ remarkable achievements before they head back into the world in service of their communities. Harvard ......
Second Acts: It’s Never Too Late to Go Back to School
Second Acts is a feature that tells the stories of student’s personal reinvention as they explore a new passion in… Read More Second Acts: It’s Never Too Late to Go Back to School...
Advice to incoming students: get to know the area
It's time to get to the more fun stuff as we continue to dish out advice to incoming students! Knowing your resources and digging into the curriculum are all well and good, but those sound suspiciously like work. Summer is coming, after all, so let's relax a bit!...
Sailing the Seas of Seats
Blog friends, it is ON. Commencement time!...
#ElliottProud: Emana Shunnom
Emana Shunnom is a Fellow at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Africa Business Center, where she provides programs ideation and policy initiatives to broaden commercial relationships between the U.S. private sector companies and emerging markets in Africa. Emana joined the Chambers after 8 years at the downstream subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC … Continue reading #ElliottProud: Emana Shunnom...
Advice to incoming students: dive into the curriculum
Continuing our series of tips to help incoming students prepare for life at Fletcher, today I'll focus on another topic that might make you think "well duh." A reasonable response to my advice to start digging into the Fletcher curriculum is to point out that any student who applied to Fletcher, much less confirmed their plans to attend, surely has done quite a lot of this already. I sure hope so! However, the lens through which you view curricular offerings as an applicant or even an admitted student can be quite different for enrolled students....
#WeAreElliott: Betsy Goldemen
Betsy Goldemen is pursuing a Master of Arts in International Affairs with a concentration in Technology and International Affairs. She is pursuing her graduate studies as a Wolcott Foundation fellow and will graduate in August 2022. Betsy graduated summa cum laude from the College of William and Mary in 2014 with a B.A. in Government … Continue reading #WeAreElliott: Betsy Goldemen...
Finding Your Focus
Preparing for your studies at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center may seem intimidating - throughout the application process, and even after, you are asked about your research interests, focus, and career path. What if you are interested in many things? How do ......
Advice to incoming students: know your resources
Over the next week or two I'll focus on offering advice to incoming students, which I hope will be useful not just for those arriving this fall but also for future students interested in understanding what comes next after confirming enrollment....
Policy Analysis Exercise Showcase
For MPP students, the Policy Analysis Exercise (PAE) is the culmination of the Harvard Kennedy School experience. In fact, many of our MPP graduates consider it to be one of the highlights of their HKS education.During the PAE, second-year MPP students......
#WeAreElliott: Grant Silverman
Grant Silverman is a master’s student at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs where he studies conflict and conflict resolution, disinformation, and right-wing extremism. His research has paid special attention to the rise of illiberal and extremist movements in the U.S. and E.U. Prior to his studies at the Elliott School, he earned … Continue reading #WeAreElliott: Grant Silverman...
Using nightlights as a measure of economic activity
GPS alumnus and professor use cutting-edge remote sensing technology to help provide an innovative path for monitoring progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)...