Professor Christopher T. Hill was a keynote speaker at the "International Workshop on Secure Materials for Safety and Security" on March 22 at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. The event was organized by the Integrated Research Institute. The title of Hill’s talk was "Social Management of the Risks of New Technology in the United States." To view his PowerPoint presentation, click here. To view the workshop program, click here.

Professor Narou Koizumi presented her paper, “Minimizing Welfare Loss Due to Congestion in A Mental Health System: Queueing and Simulation Analyses,” at the Fifth International Conference on Quantitative Modelling in the Management of Health Care, April 2–4 in London. The conference was hosted by the Institute of Mathematics and ITS Applications.

Adjunct Professor Frank T. Manheim spoke at a D.C. Sigma Xi meeting featuring science policy on March 20 in Chevy Chase, Md. Manheim spoke about environmental regulatory conflict.

Michelle R. Ranville (current PhD student) presented her paper, "Professional Standards as Public Policy: A Case Study," at the 65th annual national conference of the Midwest Political Science Association on April 13 in Chicago.

Professor Mark Rozell and Professor Susan Tolchin participated in the SPP Alumni Chapter Signature Event on March 30 at Mason’s Arlington Campus. Rozell was the moderator and Tolchin a panelist. The topic was Faith Factor: America, Religion, and the 2008 Election. Please see the feature story for more information.

 

Professor and Dean Catherine Rudder was a featured speaker at the annual meeting of the Southern University Conference in Ashville, N.C., on March 31. The theme of the conference was “What Is Higher Education’s Responsibility to America?” The members of the conference are the presidents and chancellors of the best private and public universities of the South.

Kelly Schrader (SPP Assistant Director of Student Services) presented “Effective Transitions: Training and Orientation Practices for New Employment Relationships” at the joint meeting of the American College Personnel Association and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators in Orlando, Fla., on April 3.

Kadri Kallas and Caterina Au (current PhD students) were on the Organizing Committee for Science and Technology in Society: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, an annual research symposium that took place in Washington, D.C., at the American Association for the Advancement of Science from March 31 to April 1. SPP PhD students who presented were Juan Julio Guetierrez (“Innovation in Low Technology Manufacturing: the Role of Networking and Input Acquisition”), Fangmeng Tian (“Distribution of Foreign-Born S&E Talent in American Cities and Its Effects”), and Ryan Zelnio (“Determining the Effects of ITAR Regulation on Commercial Space Manufacturing”). Professor David Hart, faculty advisor to the conference, moderated the panels, Collaboration for Science and Technology, and (Potential) Impact of Information Communication Technology on Society. Professor Christopher Hill served on the Career Panel. Adjunct Professor and PhD alumna Bonnie Stabile moderated the panel, Women in Science. More than 100 participants from eight countries attended the conference.