Ben
Allen (PhD ‘02) presented his working
paper, “An Overview of the Head
Start and Early Head Start Programs,” at
the International Conference on Worldwide
Start Programs for Children, held at
the Seoul Press Center in Seoul, South
Korea. The Korea National WE (Welfare
Education) Start Association and JoongAng
Ilbo co-hosted the conference, “Start
Programs in the World—Raising Children's
Future.” Its goal was to provide
an opportunity for participants to discuss
issues affecting early intervention programs,
make international contacts, and collaborate
in an effort to alleviate future poverty
through early intervention programs.
Distinguished
Senior Fellow Rex Brown gave a keynote
address, “Designing
Decision Research to Be Useful,” to
a UNESCO-sponsored conference on Creativity
and Innovation in Decision Making and
Decision Support at the London School
of Economics on June 30. The address
is scheduled to be published in the Journal
of Decision Making.
David
Buffaloe (PhD) will present
his Land Warfare Paper, “Defining Asymmetric
Warfare,” on Oct. 17 at The Institute
for Defense and Government Advancement’s
Asymmetric Warfare Conference. On Oct.
23, Buffaloe will present and host a
discussion forum at the Military Communications
Conference. His topic will be Counter-Improvised
Explosive Devices (IED) from an Operational
and Social Science Perspective.
Professor
Desmond Dinan lectured on European
institutions at
the College
of Europe’s Natolin
(Warsaw) campus in Poland
earlier this month. He also lectured
at Radboud
University Nijmegen in the Netherlands,
where he spoke about the challenge of
public discontent facing the European
Union.
Professor
Richard Florida presented
the first lecture in the Vision Series
on
Sept. 25 at George Mason University’s
Center for the Arts. He discussed his
book, The Flight of the Creative
Class: The New Global Competition
for Talent.
Professor
Jerry Mayer spoke at The
Cato Institute on Sept. 20 about
a book forum
concerning negative ad campaigns.
He commented on the book, In
Defense of
Negativity: Attacks Ads in Presidential
Campaigns (University of Chicago
Press, 2006). Mayer’s demonstration
can be viewed by clicking
here. The
event also featured the author,
John G. Geer, professor of political
science
and public policy, Vanderbilt University,
and was moderated by John Samples,
Center for Representative Government,
Cato Institute.
Watch
the Event in Real Video,
Listen
to the Event in Real Audio (Audio
Only),
Download a Podcast of the Event
(MP3)
Associate
Dean Catherine Rudder participated
on a Sept. 18 panel
for the American
Association for the Advancement
of Science. (See
feature story.)
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