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HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES Newsmakers
Business School’s Kanter Speaks at White HouseRosabeth Moss Kanter, the Class of 1960 Professor of Business Administration at the Business School, last month spoke at the White House Conference on Philanthropy, an event chaired by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton with commentary from President Clinton. The ceremonies at the East Room of the White House were accompanied by discussions throughout the United States that were linked to the White House by satellite.On Nov. 4, Kanter was honored in New York at the annual dinner of the National Academy of Human Resources, to which she was named a fellow for her contributions on a variety of workplace issues.HST Student Wins Nanotechnology AwardAnita Goel, an M.D./Ph.D. candidate at the Harvard-M.I.T. Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), was awarded this year’s Distinguished Student Award at the Seventh Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology, recently held in Santa Clara, Calif. She received the award for her ongoing research using "optical tweezers" to probe the real-time single molecule dynamics of motor enzymes "dancing on DNA." Goel entered the HST program in 1995 and has been simultaneously completing an M.D. from HST and a Ph.D. from the Department of Physics at Harvard.Caballero To Get International Press Freedom AwardMaria Cristina Caballero, research fellow at the Kennedy School's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, is one of five journalists selected to receive an International Press Freedom Award on Tuesday, Nov. 23, in New York City. Caballero, director of investigations for the Colombian newsmagazine Semana, received death threats as a result of her work covering the country's escalating civil strife, in which she interviewed leaders from all factions.The Press Freedom Awards are sponsored by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), and are awarded annually to journalists for their coura ge and independence. Clarence Page, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington columnist for the Chicago Tribune, and former CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite will be presenting the award to Caballero. Speakers at the ceremony this year will include NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw and Maureen Dowd of the New York Times.
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