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...declaring endorsements for this year’s Undergraduate Council (UC) presidential election, the major political organizations have crossed partisan divides. The Harvard College Democrats chose to back Matthew L. Sundquist ’09, a former member of the Harvard Republican Club (HRC), while the HRC itself endorsed Democrat Roy T. Willey IV ’09 over active HRC member Frances I. Martel...
...approach to regulating the problem. For example, the cap-and-trade system, which consists of an overall cap on emissions and the buying and selling of emission permits, has been very successful, especially in the sulfur allowance market, he said. Kolstad expects to see “major progress” in carbon emissions in the U.S. over the next two years. The event, which attracted approximately 100 faculty members, graduate students, and undergraduates, was organized by the Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP). Kolstad is the second visiting scholar in this seminar series. Director of HEEP Robert N. Stavins...
...environment will play a major role in international relations in the coming decades, two experts on international ethics and development said at an event hosted by the International Relations on Campus group on Saturday morning. Adil Najam, the director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center at Boston University, and Martin Calkins, an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts at Boston College of Management, presented to about 30 students at the workshop. It was the first such event organized by the international relations student group this year. Najam, who will represent the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change when the organization...
Graduate schools across the country experienced a significant increase in the enrollment of minority students during the last academic school year, according to a annual report released last week by a major graduate school advocacy group...
...they remained skeptical about the country’s long-term democratic prospects. Sunday night marked the defeat of proposed constitutional amendments that would have granted socialist President Hugo Chavez greater control, including the constitutional power to remain president for life. This is the opposition’s first major electoral victory since Chavez came to power. Federico Andrés Ortega Sosa, a second-year student at the Kennedy School of Government from Caracas, Venezuela, said the election results might signal “a momentum shift,” since the Venezuelan president has been enjoying...