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Transportation
Program Honors VDOT for its Support
Jonathan
L. Gifford, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Director
of The Transportation Policy, Operations & Logistics
masters program, and SPP Dean Kingsley E. Haynes presented
a plaque commending the Virginia
Department of Transportation for its support of the distance
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Cathy
Rudder Receives Outstanding Professional Achievement Award
The Midwest Women’s Caucus of the Midwest Political Science Association
honored Cathy Rudder, SPP’s Associate Dean
for Academic Affairs, for her outstanding professional achievement...
Holly
Park Joins SPP as Grants and Research Finance Manager
As the School of Public Policy’s external funding continues to increase,
the school is working to accommodate the growth. Among the changes made to facilitate
this is the addition of Holly Park to the SPP staff
as the finance manager for grants and research...
Fauntroy
Selected to Serve as Vice President of Area Political Science Association
The nominating committee of the National Capital Area Political Science Association
(NCAPSA) recently selected Michael K. Fauntroy as
its first Vice President for the 2004-05 year...
SPP’s
Jim Riggle Testifies Before United Nations
Research Associate Professor Jim Riggle testified
before the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration about
the Global MPA program, an effort that Riggle and SPP are involved in...
POPP
Helps Train Iraqi Defense Ministry Officials
The
U.S. Institute for Peace has asked SPP’s
Peace Operations and Policy program to assist with a training course
for Iraqis and other international organization representatives, which
simulates how a post-war country...
Conference
on Greater Washington Economy Forecasts Area Growth
For
the twelfth consecutive year, scholars from the School of Public Policy
gathered to project regional economic trends...
Desmond Dinan, Professor of Public Policy and Director of SPP’s International Commerce and Policy masters program, spoke to the Annual Conference for the Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, Belgium, February 19. As the keynote speaker on a panel addressing proposals for the European Commission...
Nicole Hannans hopes to one day use her degree in public policy to improve access to quality education and child care; the single mother of a four year-old daughter has experienced dealing with these issues first hand...
W. Homer Carlisle, a student in SPP’s transportation master's program, will be attending the Eno Transportation Foundation’s exclusive 2004 Leadership Development Conference this May...
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