NEWS
SPP Named as Founding Member of SAP -IDS Scheer Business Process Innovation Institute
SPP’s Enterprise Engineering and Policy (EEP) program recently accepted an invitation to become a founding member of the Business Process Innovation Institute...

Award Inspires Doctoral Student to Dig Deeper into Research
Adam Yang is not the kind of guy who pats himself on the back. He has been working on his dissertation for two years now, juggling consulting jobs at the World Bank...

SPP Reorganizes Administration : Rudder Named Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Dean Kingsley Haynes recently announced that Catherine Rudder, director of the Masters in Public Policy program, will now become associate dean for academic affairs for the School of Public Policy...

Early SPP Student, Recent Alumnus, Bruce Borthwick, Dies
School of Public Policy alumnus Dr. R. Bruce Borthwick passed away December 18, 2003 due to complications from cancer and other blood disorders. Borthwick enrolled in the doctoral program when...

STUDENT PROFILES
Doctoral Student Combines Studies in Public Policy and Gerontology to Help the Elderly
After nearly 20 years working in management and sales in the information technology field, 47-year-old Mary Leary decided she wanted to make a bigger difference...

EVENTS
SPP Professor Sesno, WETA Launch New Television Show
The first episode in a new public affairs series, Sesno Reports, debuted February 24 on WETA TV 26 with a discussion on terrorism featuring U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge...

SPP Alumni Chapter Members Gather for Patriot Paradise Homecoming
A break in the cold winter weather came at the right time for GMU’s homecoming activities Saturday, February 21, and alumni, faculty, staff and students of the School of Public Policy gathered to celebrate...

PUBLICATIONS
Reinert’s New Book Has Broad Appeal
Kenneth A. Reinert, Associate Professor of public policy, hoped to create an international economics textbook which appealed to more than only economists. The result of his work...

Public Policy PhD Alumni Edit and Contribute to Recent Book
Serdar Yilmaz and Mustafa Dinc, both graduates of the School of Public Policy’s doctoral program, recently collaborated on a book published by the World Bank...

Professor Jack High Authors Paper on Software Protection from Malicious Code
Computer viruses and worms are big news these days, passing through hard drives, wreaking havoc on networks and costing companies and governments millions of dollars...