As Canadian undergraduates watch the federal election unfold today in their home country, they will see one candidate who is a fellow Harvardian—Michael G. Ignatieff, a 1976 graduate of Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and a former professor at the Kennedy School.

Kennedy School Women and Public Policy Program Director Iris Bohnet will serve as the school’s Academic Dean beginning July 1, according to a statement released on Thursday.

As the new director of the Harvard Institute of Politics, C. M. Trey Grayson '94 lives in Kirkland House just like he did as a Harvard undergraduate 20 years ago.

Former Harvard Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. met with Col. Muammar al-Gaddafi of Libya two times during the past four years and helped the colonel’s son with his doctoral thesis.

Reforming election policies across the U.S. and modifying the way leaders are selected in Congress could help reduce polarization in American politics.

A raucous crowd of about 300 students armed with signs and drums rallied outside the Harvard Kennedy School yesterday—where House Majority Leader Eric I. Cantor (R-Va.) was speaking—in protest of proposed budget cuts.

In spite of efforts to raise awareness on the issue of gender imbalance, the percentage of female faculty at the Kennedy School—although improving from year to year—has remained very low over the past decade.