Centerpiece: Newsletter of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University

Vol 18 Num 1 | WINTER 2004

In the fall of 2003, the Weatherhead Foundation Board authorized a new $3 million endowment grant pledge to enable Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs to support the research of its faculty associates more effectively. The Foundation’s splendid generosity during the past seven years has transformed this Center’s capacity to support research on key issues and problems in the world....

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Jim Cooney

Steven Bloomfield

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Fellows' Alumni Conference & Reunion: America's Role in the World Today

Nearly 100 alumni of the Fellows Program, spanning several generations of Fellows and representing approximately thirty countries, returned to Harvard University in late November to participate in a conference and reunion. It was among the largest gatherings of alumni since the program’s founding in 1958. Over the course of three days, Fellows convened in familiar venues on the Harvard campus and at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences where they considered “America’s Role in the World Today.” In addition to the academic component of the program, Fellows also spent time catching up with classmates, renewing ties with faculty, connecting with those from other classes with whom they shared a sense of affiliation, and forming new relationships....