79 JFK AND BEYOND

Newsmakers

Jendayi Frazer, former assistant professor of public policy, has been nominated as U.S. ambassador to South Africa by President George W. Bush.

Stephen Goldsmith, professor of the practice of public management, was named chair of the Corporation for National and Community Service.

Michael Ignatieff, professor of human rights practice and director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, was identified as one of the 500 most influential people in the United States in the field of foreign policy by the World Affairs Councils of America.

David Luberoff MPA 1989 was named executive director of the Kennedy School’s Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston.

Paul Peterson, professor of government, received the 2003 Fordham Prize for Distinguished Scholarship from the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation.

Samantha Power, lecturer in public policy, was included in Time magazine’s “Time 100,” an annual listing of the people who shape our world.

Former U.S. Senator David Pryor IOP 1999, director of the Institute of Politics from 2000 to 2002, will lead the Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock, Arkansas, which plans to open at the University of Arkansas in the fall of 2004.

Robert Putnam, professor of public policy and director of the Saguaro Seminar, received the 2003 Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal for outstanding career achievement from Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and an honorary degree from University of Edinburgh.

Nicolas Retsinas, director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies, was named one of the most influential people in housing by the National Association of Realtors. He was also made chair of the board of directors of Habitat for Humanity International.