Harvard University Global Engagement: an Overview

HARVARD UNIVERSITY GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT: AN OVERVIEW

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2020 WHOEVER YOU ARE, WHEREVER YOU ARE FROM, HARVARD WELCOMES YOU.

Harvard’s global work is a dazzling kaleidoscope, the result of a simple strategy for engagement with the world: to attract talented students and faculty, wherever they might come from, and to empower them to pursue their studies, research and teaching, wherever around the world they might lead.

Dozens of Harvard research centers cross Meanwhile, scholars and students from all over disciplinary boundaries in the search for broad the world come to Harvard by the thousands, knowledge that is firmly grounded in local contexts, vastly enriching the University’s teaching and from the University’s Center for African Studies, research. From the Law School to the Graduate to the Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic School of Education to the Dental School, no part Governance and Innovation, to the Center for the of Harvard lacks global exposure: Nearly one quarter Study of World Religions at the Harvard Divinity of Harvard’s students hail from outside the School. Many academic departments have an United States, and Harvard consistently hosts inherently international mission, including Global more international scholars than any other American Health and Population in the Harvard T.H. Chan university. The Harvard Summer School offers study School of Public Health, and East Asian Languages abroad courses in more than twenty locations, and Civilizations in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. from Santo Domingo to Seoul, and the Radcliffe Scientists and engineers from the Harvard Paulson Institute routinely counts visitors from every School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, as well continent among its fellows. as researchers at the Harvard Medical School, the Harvard Business School, and the Graduate School Harvard faculty and students drive our global of Design, carry out work that is global by its very activity. Working through schools, centers, nature, and enhanced by numerous collaborations and a growing network of regional offices, and with international partners from Tokyo to Dubai and collaborating with peers across the University Santiago to Mumbai. Small wonder that every year, and around the world, Harvard scholars are Harvard students, faculty, and staff travel to nearly advancing the frontiers of knowledge in service every country in the world. to humanity: One Harvard, One World.

This brochure provides just a sample of Harvard’s activity worldwide. We invite you to explore, learn, and find inspiration. Find more at worldwide.harvard.edu. STUDENTS 85 STUDENTS HARVARD AROUND THE WORLD 50% of Harvard’s ALUMNI More than 694 603 Nobel Prize ALUMNI 50 international 6,043 STUDENTS research centers winners in the last Harvard Business The Archaeological STUDENTS Richard Rogers House at Wimbledon– 1,039 School Middle East Exploration of Sardis and North Africa Harvard Graduate School of Design Sart, Turkey ALUMNI Research Center 1,924 and programs 10 years were born Wimbledon, UK Est. 1958 Istanbul, Turkey ALUMNI Est. 2016 21,296 Est. 2013 can be found outside the U.S. 15,267 Harvard Business School Europe STUDENTS on campus. Research Center Paris, France 409 Est. 2003 ALUMNI Harvard offers Villa I Tatti Harvard University 3,090 Harvard Business School Japan Center for Italian STUDENTS Research Center Harvard hosts Renaissance Studies instruction in Harvard Tokyo, Japan Florence, Italy 374 Center Shanghai Est. 2002 Est. 1959 Center for Middle 5,000+ ALUMNI over 80 Eastern Studies Shanghai, China Tunisia Office 4,499 Est. 2010 international languages Tunis, Tunisia Est. 2016 Center for Hellenic Harvard Business School Asia–Pacific Studies in Greece scholars, including Uyghur, Gullah, Lingala … Research Center Nafplion, Greece Hong Kong SPOTLIGHT: Est. 2008 Est. 1999 more than any other BUILDING ORAL HEALTH Harvard Business STUDENTS School India David Rockefeller university in the TRAINING, RESEARCH, Research Center Center for Latin 282 Mumbai, India Over 6 million American Studies AND SERVICE DELIVERY Source: Institute of International Education ALUMNI Est. 2006 SPOTLIGHT: United States. Mexico Office CAPACITY IN RWANDA learners from Mexico City, Mexico STUDENTS ADVANCING HUMAN RIGHTS IN MYANMAR Since 2011, Harvard School of Dental 3,650 Harvard T.H. Chan Est. 2013 568 Medicine has been a leading partner in School of Public Health Tyler Giannini and Yee Htun, International Human Rights Clinic, 193 countries the launch of the new School of Dentistry India Research Center Harvard Law School Mumbai, India ALUMNI and bachelor of dental surgery degree Harvard’s 20+ Est. 2016 The International Human Rights Clinic advances the rights of communities take courses through program at the University of Rwanda, in Myanmar, focusing on gender justice and international accountability 6,588 the country’s first-ever dental school. for those who have persecuted ethnic nationalities and religious minorities. locations abroad The Lakshmi Mittal Through the Rwanda Human Resources The Clinic and its students have supported women leaders, law reform, Harvard’s online Africa Academy and Family for Health Program, HSDM faculty spend and conducted workshops to counter Buddhist ultra-nationalism and hate for Public Health South Asia Institute span the globe. several months each year in Kigali to speech with the goal of advancing peace and accountability in the country. learning platform, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania India Office advance local dental education, research, Est. 2009 and service delivery via capacity and Delhi, India HarvardX. infrastructure development to improve Est. 2017 the oral health experience of all Rwandans. Botswana–Harvard Partnership David Rockefeller Center Gaborone, Botswana for Latin American Studies Est. 1996 STUDENTS David Rockefeller Center Harvard’s Research: Publications Regional Office for Latin American Studies Santiago, Chile 181 International Students at Harvard Brazil Office with International Coauthors Est. 2002 ALUMNI São Paulo, Brazil SPOTLIGHT: Est. 2006 RELIGION, CONFLICT, 3,109 Each year, more and more Harvard scholars collaborate with colleagues in different countries. 6,000 International Enrollment 24% Harvard Business School Harvard Business School AND PEACE INITIATIVE Latin America Latin America % International SPOTLIGHT: Research Center Research Center IN THE MIDDLE EAST 50% Harvard University SEEKING THE ORIGINS OF THE Buenos Aires, Argentina São Paulo, Brazil Center for African Studies The Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative Est. 2000 Est. 2015 Africa Office is a collaboration between Harvard Divinity United States 4,500 18% BIG BANG IN ANTARCTICA Johannesburg, South Africa School and Harvard Kennedy School to explore John Kovac, Professor of Astronomy and Est. 2016 the interplay between religions and political 40% Physics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences culture, public policy, and international Harvard Business School affairs in the Middle East. Programming At the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Africa Research Center 3,000 12% includes coursework, practitioner fellowships, scientists from the Kovac Cosmic Microwave Johannesburg, South Africa 30% internships, experiential learning, and Background Group at the Center for Est. 2019 Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian use research open to all Harvard graduate students complex microwave telescopes to search the building towards a more sophisticated 1,500 6% sky for the earliest traces of the Big Bang. understanding of religion and yielding fresh 20% The uniquely cold, dry environment at the insights into challenges and opportunities South Pole provides the best view on earth for just peacebuilding. NUMBER OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS INTERNATIONAL NUMBER OF of microwaves from outer space, making it COAUTHORS % WITH INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL % OF TOTAL ENROLLMENT TOTAL % OF INTERNATIONAL 10% 0 0% the ideal place to look for the tiny signals ’00 ’01 ’02 ’03 ’04 ’05 ’06 ’07 ’08 ’09 ’10 ’11 ’12 ’13 ’14 ’15 ’16 ’17 ’18 ’19 ’06 ’07 ’08 ’09 ’10 ’11 ’12 ’13 ’14 ’15 ’16 ’17 ’18 ’19 ’20 from primordial gravitational waves generated ACADEMIC YEAR END fractions of a second after the universe began. Notes: ACADEMIC YEAR • 152 additional international students were enrolled whose country of origin was not available. • Student enrollment as of fall 2019 Source: School Registrars. International refers to students who are neither U.S. citizens nor permanent • International alumni source: Harvard Alumni Association residents. Degree and certificate-seeking students only. Enrollment as of October 15th of each academic year. Source: Elsevier – SciVal Photo Credits Front Cover Photo Credits Back Cover Thomas Bernhardt-Lanier, class of 2019: Student Statistics Ameerah Ahmad, class of 2019: Morocco Natali Gale, class of 2021: India Uganda Source: School Registrars Maya AlMoussa, class of 2021: Italy Dianne Lee, class of 2020: Japan Emma Orcutt, class of 2019: France Prepared by Office of Institutional Research and Anastasia Lamothe, class of 2021: Republic of Korea Zoe Hughes, class of 2020: Chile Katharine Schluntz, class of 2019: China Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs. Heide Rogers, class of 2021: Morocco Jenny Liu, class of 2021: Ecuador “International” refers to students who are neither U.S. citizens nor permanent residents. Julia Canick, class of 2019: Israel Taejung Song, class of 2020: France Degree and certificate-seeking students only. Griffin Andres, class of 2021: Dominican Republic Jeffrey Cott, class of 2019: Japan Enrollment as of October 15th of academic year.

Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs Harvard University Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center, Suite 850 1350 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 617.495.0568 [email protected] worldwide.harvard.edu