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Monthly Archives: September 2025
Harkness@100: From Treasury to Harvard – setting the stage for growth
By Ross Tanner I was awarded a Fellowship in 1980, for 21 months tenure in the US commencing August 1981. At university, I had majored in English literature and language, and then was employed in The Treasury as a policy…
Read MoreHarkness@100: Fellowship reignited my passion for journalism
By Peter Griffin Watching Obama’s second inauguration from the Mall in Washington D.C., sitting in on editorial meetings with the team at the Center for Public integrity, or visiting the fusion reactor at MIT in Boston. It’s hard to pick…
Read MoreHarkness@100: From Boston bagels to 9/11 – reflections of a Harkness Fellow
By John Hobbs I undertook my Harkness scholarship over the 2001/02 period with two other New Zealanders, Rae Lamb, and Frances Hughes. My research was undertaken with the oversight of Professor David Bates of the Harvard Medical School. I arrived…
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