News

June 2009

June 11th 2009
Lee Sigal testifies before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on a strategy for dealing with North Korea.
June 9th 2009
SSRC interviews Eric Sanderson, the first VAI-SSRC New York Prize Fellow in Sustainable Cities and the Social Sciences, on his work on Manhattan’s past, present, and future.
June 8th 2009
Lee Sigal speaks to Martin Savidge of WorldFocus about North Korea’s harsh sentence for two detained U.S. journalists.
June 5th 2009
Photojournalist who participated in SSRC-funded Harvard program offers audio slideshow as new resource for journalists covering Iraq.
June 4th 2009
Craig Calhoun calls Jim Leach “outstanding choice” for NEH and says SSRC Board will miss him.
June 3rd 2009
Board member Jim Leach is nominated by President Obama to serve as next chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
June 3rd 2009
Hector Dada Hirezi is Minister of the Economy and Alexander Segoviain is Technical Secretary for newly-elected El Salvadorean President Mauricio Funes. Both were active in the SSRC’s Latin American work in the 1990s.
June 3rd 2009
Beyond Television: The Digital Transition of Public Access

May 2009

May 28th 2009
Program directors Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis guest blog on NYT’s Economix about importance of measuring human development within America.
May 28th 2009
In honor of what would have been Hirschman Prize winner Charles Tilly’s 80th birthday, article “Grudging Consent” now available for download.
May 27th 2009
Based on an SSRC-funded workshop, Harvard’s Center on Middle Eastern Studies posts “Resources for Journalists on Islam and Muslim Communities.”
May 27th 2009
Stan Katz recounts Working Group on Cuba’s final meeting with Cuban librarians and archivists who, with foreign specialists, worked to enhance cultural heritage preservation on the island.
May 20th 2009
SSRC congratulates eleven 2009 Guggenheim winners with strong connections to our work.
May 20th 2009
Research fellow Nicolas Guilhot was rapporteur for the METRIS report on trends in socio-economic sciences and humanities in Europe (free PDF download).
May 19th 2009
Board Executive Committee Chair Michael Kennedy is named new director of Brown’s Watson Institute.
May 19th 2009
SSRC awards fellowships to 75 graduate students for conducting international dissertation research in countries from Afghanistan to Venezuela.
May 18th 2009
SSRC Board Member Claude M. Steele has been appointed as provost of Columbia University.
May 18th 2009
“We Can Pay for Education Today–Or Prisons Tomorrow”: the very first Huffington Post blog entry by program directors Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis.
May 14th 2009
Michael Lind of New America Foundation interviews SSRC President Craig Calhoun about real-time social science. Go to YouTube video.
May 13th 2009
Article about the Common Good Forecaster, new tool of the American Human Development Report, appears in USA Today.