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Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead said of Harvard that "at its best, this
university unites the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of
learning." At its best, that is BCSIA, where an exceptional group of
research fellows have the opportunity to engage actively in the Environment
and Natural Resources Program (ENRP), the International Security Program
(ISP), the Strengthening Democratic Institutions (SDI) Project, and the
Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program (STPP). The Center offers
Research Fellows the unique chance to "think" with more than 100 scholars,
faculty and analysts. These fellows, who compete with a large pool of applicants
for positions at the Center, are highly regarded because of their distinguished backgrounds and promising futures. Many have already
received their Ph.D.s, while others are finishing dissertations. They write
books, prepare papers, participate in working groups, and always
try to stay a step ahead of tomorrow''s news. Four of this year''s outstanding fellows provide a snapshot of the quality,diversity, and the commitment of these young scholars.
KATE O''NEILL is a postdoctoral fellow who has worked closely with the
Center''s Managing the Atom project. O''Neill has analyzed the evolution of
an international regime governing the movement and storage of nuclear
wastes that arise from civilian nuclear power programs. She has appreciated
the chance to look beyond the immediate confines of her dissertation work
to other areas studied at the Center. "I''ve developed interest in arms
control, which helps round out my international environment politics
knowledge," she said.
VLADIMIR BOXER pulled himself away from Moscow politics to come to the
Center for a year. He worked for Boris Yeltsin''s presidential campaign as a
senior-level adviser. Prior to Boxer''s political involvement, he led a
different life - as a pediatrician. He hung up his doctor''s coat to
dedicate his time to uncovering the factors that determine the electoral
voting process in his country. Through SDI, he has become involved in a
project dubbed the "Moscow Mortgage Initiative," which is intended to
introduce Moscow to affordable housing through a new mortgage system.
AMY GORDON is on leave from the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
(ACDA) in Washington, D.C. Prior to receiving the first Harvard-Sussex
Fellowship at BCSIA, Gordon served as the senior adviser in ACDA for the
ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). She says she will
return to Washington armed with fresh ideas on strategic dilemmas facing
U.S. nonproliferation policymakers. She has taken the opportunity to study
the profound changes in U.S. arms control and nonproliferation policy since
the end of the Cold War, and is completing a monograph on the implications
of the 1997 CWC ratification for future nonproliferation policy challenges.
TERRY KEATING comes from a science background and is one of several Global
Environmental Assessment fellows who recently traveled to Europe for three
months to study at the International Institute for Applied Systems
Analysis. The GEA project is a collaborative, interdisciplinary effort to
improve the link between science and policy in society''s efforts to deal
with the problems of global environmental change. Keating said the
fellowship program is challenging because the fellows are expected not only
to write about their research, but also to publish it. His paper is about
the development of the science and policy of tropospheric ozone.