International affairs

Reporting on Harvard’s global reach—from student fieldwork and faculty research to alumni impact around the world.

Harvard Kennedy School

Harvard in the Crosshairs |

Harvard Plans Contingencies for International Students

The Kennedy School and School of Public Health are developing online options.

by Jonathan Shaw

President Drew Faust suggested that China’s rapid expansion of higher education offers “unimagined possibilities for understanding and discovery.”

| May-June 2010

President Drew Faust’s Banquet Remarks

The president reflected on Harvard’s educational involvement with China through the years.

Old Beijing and new: traditional homes and encroaching high-rises

Features | March-April 2010

Changing, Challenging China

A Harvard Magazine roundtable

| March-April 2010

China Hands: Meet the Experts

Background on the faculty members and alumni who discuss contemporary China's rising power—and persistent problems—in the magazine's probing roundtable

This image, provided by a member of the Boston University delegation upon his return from Haiti, shows the wall map sheets printed at Harvard being used for damage assessment surveys.

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Update: Help for Haiti

Evidence of Harvard maps in use; updates on the situation on the ground; a benefit concert featuring student performers and a memorial service.

In Nganyahun village, a Red Cross volunteer and a community leader who work with GMin teach residents how to put up bed nets.

| November-December 2009

A Better Bed-Net Strategy

Combating malaria by distributing bed nets in Sierra Leone

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Children from New Hope orphanage in Busia, Uganda, make their nightly walk to get water for drinking and washing. They handle all the chores themselves—an important part of director Ken Mulago’s strategy for running the orphanage. “We want our children to behave as responsible adults,” he says. “We don’t want to raise them up just to think about themselves.”

Features | November-December 2009

Immersed in Africa

Students and service at a new frontier

by Elizabeth Gudrais

The University of Ghana campus

| November-December 2009

"Africa for Beginners"

At "slave castles" and the University of Ghana, Audrey White ’10 researches the slave trade.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

McElroy's article is the cover story in the September 11 issue of <em>Science</em>

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Powering China with Wind Alone

China could produce seven times its current electricity needs using wind alone.

Scenes from Havana, taken in March 2007

Features | July-August 2009

Hello from Havana

Raúl Castro is changing Cuba. Will the United States respond?

This map shows soil types for all of Africa. A researcher might use it with other map layers to study agricultural productivity among countries with similar soils, comparing, for example, the agrarian practices of Francophone and Anglophone countries.

John Harvard's Journal | March-April 2009

Mapping Africa

Africa Map, a project of Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis, brings GIS capabilities to research on the entire continent.