October 2011 DRCLAS Director Merilee Grindle to give Good Governance talk at FGV in So Paulo On Tuesday, October 25,

at 11:00am, Harvard Kennedy School Professor Merilee Grindle will give a public talk on "Good Enough Governance: An Agenda for Public Sector Reform" at the Fundao Getulio Vargas in So Paulo (Rua Itapeva, 474 sala 3002 Prdio de Economia), sponsored by the Instituto Tellus and FGV's Centro de Poltica e Economia do Setor Pblico. She will discuss why the good governance agenda has become ever more daunting, and what might be done to fit the agenda to the realities of specific countries. A specialist on the comparative analysis of policy making, implementation, and public management in Latin America, Grindle is Director of DRCLAS and the Edward S. Mason Professor of International Development at Harvard.

Lemann Fellows Seminar Series starts next week in Cambridge This semester there will be three seminars presented by current and former Lemann Fellows: "Incentives and Learning: A Case Study of a Teacher Performance Pay Reform in Brazil" (Oct. 27), "New Left Party Survival and Failure in Latin America" (Nov. 10), and "Implementation of Urban and Housing Policies in a Brazilian Municipality" (Dec. 1). Lemann Fellowships give Brazilians who work or aspire to work as professionals in education, government, or public health the opportunity for graduate study at Harvard so as to help build a stronger, more effective public sector in Brazil. They also support Ph.D. dissertation research for students of any nationality at Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences whose work focuses significantly on Brazil.

Wide range of Visiting Scholars & Fellows from Brazil currently at

Harvard Current Visiting Scholars and Fellows from Brazil throughout Harvard this semester include leading academics and practitioners of architecture and urban planning, environmental engineering, journalism, social entrepreneurship, history, and sustainable development. Please see the link above for a listing with biographies. Specific projects range from "Eco-Social Governance and Sustainability in Brazil" to "The Enchantment of Activism: A Father-Daughter Collaboration and a Womens Movement in Southern Brazil" to "Portraits of Rio de Janeiro: An Iconography of Social Change and Urban Reform."

January Mentoring and Language Acquisition Program receives 63 College applications The Mentoring and Language Acquisition in Brazil (MLAB) program, which will be held for the first time in So Paulo this January, received 63 applications from Harvard College undergraduates. The two-week program will bring together 15 inspiring Harvard students and 15 exceptional Brazilian high schoolers from low socioeconomic backgrounds for one-on-one college prep mentorship, focused group discussions, and social activities. MLAB was created partly in response to President Dilma Rousseff's recently announced goal of offering 75,000 scholarships to Brazilians seeking to study in foreign universities by 2014.

Collaborative Environmental Engineering Field Course makes U.S. debut this January After two successful J-terms in Brazil, the third edition of this collaborative field course between Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Escola Politcnica da Universidade de So Paulo (Poli-USP) will be held in the United States. Titled "Engineering, the Environment and Extreme Events," the course will spur its 20 participants to examine the challenges of sustainability in natural resource use, the effects of environmental damage on urban areas, and the repercussions of extreme weather events in an increasingly crowded world through hands-on activities in Cambridge as well

as site visits in New Orleans and Vicksburg, Mississippi, led by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Laboratory Research Collaboration expands to 7 Harvard faculty hosts Thirteen top students from the University of So Paulo Medical School (FMUSP) have been selected to spend next year conducting diverse scientific research in seven different laboratories at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS). The exchange, which initially emerged as the result of a collaboration between HSPH Professor John Godleski and FMUSP Professor Paulo Saldiva, will officially welcome Bernardo Lemos (HSPH) and Hiep Nguyen (HMS- Children's Hospital) as receiving professors in 2012.

In the News "All Eyes on Brazil" (Harvard Crimson, Oct. 13, 2011) "Pas tem lies a dar, diz brasilianista" (Valor Econmico, Oct. 3, 2011) "Developing fast, but sustainably" (Harvard Gazette, Sept. 22, 2011) "A City Contrived" (Harvard Crimson, Sept. 8, 2011) "The View from Mass. Hall: On Harvards international presence" (Harvard Magazine, Sept.-Oct. 2011)