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ALUMNI
SPOTLIGHT
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TPOL
Grad Receives Alumni Service Award
The School of Public Policy Alumni Association recently awarded an Alumni
Service award to Dione Sharmin, a founding member and the first president
of the organization.
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Graduate
Students Help Organize Conference
A group of SPP graduate students participated in the American Association
for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) annual conference, “Science
and Technology in Context: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference,” April
23-24, in Washington, D.C.
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NEWS
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 More
than 200 SPP Students to Graduate
More than 200 SPP Master’s and Ph.D. students will receive their degrees
during the school’s convocation, which will take place on Friday, May 20,
in the Center for the Arts on the Fairfax campus.
President Merten Shares Life, Learning Lessons
with Ph.D. Students
In a rare visit with SPP doctoral students
and faculty on April 28, GMU
President Alan Merten spoke about learning,
his own ascension to success and life after
graduate school.
Organizational Learning Program Gets New Identity
SPP is changing the name of its Organizational
Learning Master’s program to Organization
Development and Knowledge Management (OD and
KM).
Seminar Named after Prominent SPP Visiting Professor
Jean H.P. Paelinck,
a distinguished visiting professor who has
come to SPP many times since
1996, continues to receive attention for his
innovative work in spatial econometrics, on
which he has worked since the sixties.
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STUDENT
PROFILES
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Doctoral
Student Wins Mid-Continent Regional Science
Association Award
The Mid-Continent Regional Science Association has awarded SPP
Doctoral student David Diamond with a second place award in the 2005
M. Jarvin Emerson Student Paper Competition for his essay about Arlington
County property tax policy.
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PUBLICATIONS
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SPP
Distinguished Senior Fellow Publishes Decision-Making
Book
In his book , “Rational Choice and Judgment:
Decision Analysis for the Decider,” SPP
Distinguished Senior Fellow Rex Brown offers his readers an opportunity
to try out the decision-making methods he has used
after forty years of experience in top-level decision
consulting.
Professor Presents Paper on Prison Torture at
Belgium Conference
Professor James Pfiffner will present his paper, “Torture
and Public Management: The Ethics of Interrogation,” at
the conference on Ethics and Integrity of Governance
in Leuven, Belgium, June 2-5, 2005.
Book Offers Insight on Barriers to Transportation
Development
“Barriers to Sustainable Transport” encourages
public policy makers and scientists to consider
the often overlooked role that institutional
roadblocks play in stalling the development of
transportation systems.
SPP Alumn Examines the Cost of Outsourcing
“Outsourcing America: What’s Behind Our
National Crisis and How Can We Reclaim American
Jobs?” examines the practice and impact
of sending American jobs to other countries.
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