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Public Policy graduating senior forged her path for success
May 6, 2019Carolina Covenant Scholar Randi Thompson says “If you are willing to work hard and make sacrifices, you can overcome the barriers to coming to college.”
2019 Distinguished Commencement Speaker Announced
May 4, 2019Calyssa Zellars, UNC Public Policy alumna and attorney at Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP in Detroit, named commencement speaker.
Public Policy major Gabby Hubert awarded Burch Fellowship
March 29, 2019Gabby will travel to Yangon, Myanmar for two and a half months to work at the Asia Foundation.
Professors Rebecca Kreitzer and Candis Watts Smith and graduate student Feiya Suo win award from Midwest Political Science Association
March 25, 2019Their work, “The Dynamics of Racial Resentment Across the 50 U.S. States,” was chosen as a co-winner of the award for the best paper on a topic investigating race or ethnicity and politics.
Public Policy alum awarded prestigious Junior Fellows selection
March 22, 2019Sandy Alkoutami has been chosen as a James C. Gaither Junior Fellow in Middle Eastern studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Read more.
Professor Steve Hemelt elected to Association for Education Finance and Policy board
March 18, 2019Professor Hemelt will serve a 3 year term with the organization whose mission is to promote understanding of means by which resources are generated, distributed, and used to enhance human learning.
Professor Jeremy Moulton participates in Brookings panel March 14
March 15, 2019As part of Brookings’ conference Can big data improve economic measurement?—offered simultaneously as a webcast—Professor Moulton’s work on using Zillow microdata to value housing services will be part of the discussion of case studies using big, privately gathered data.
Professor Gutierrez Wins Grant
March 13, 2019The Russell Sage Foundation awarded Professor Carmen Gutierrez a grant for her project “The ACA and the Demography of the U.S. Criminal Justice Population.”
Public Policy graduate shines in State Attorney’s Office
March 11, 2019Sabrina Marcos, a newly hired assistant state attorney, won a mock trial opening statement contest.
Carolina Forum: The Media as Superpower for Public Good
March 8, 2019Stephen Friedman is an Emmy and Peabody award-winning creator of social impact campaigns. Using the power of storytelling and SYP’s experience in large-scale transformation, he partners with CEOs and philanthropists to tackle some of the biggest social challenges we face.
Public Policy major Priya Sridhar gains experience at Oxford
December 20, 2018Priya, whose academic interest is particularly focused on the intersection between criminal justice and mental health, and an Oxford University Professor of Forensic Psychiatry worked on a systematic review examining prison healthcare last summer.
Graduate student Averi Chakrabarti posts on the World Bank’s Development Impact site
December 5, 2018Averi highlights the immediate human health impact of the rapid rates of deforestation in Indonesia due to forest loss-induced spikes in malaria in her guest post.
Professor Cassandra Davis in the Spotlight
December 3, 2018Highlighting her work for the NSF-funded research study “Investigating the Impact of Hurricanes and School Responses on Students in Texas and North Carolina,” Professor Davis is in the UNC Office of Research Development Faculty Spotlight.
Professor Carmen Gutierrez’s work on Patterns of Insurance Coverage is highlighted.
December 1, 2018In addition to publication of her findings on healthcare coverage before and after the Affordable Care Act, Professor Gutierrez discusses the roles of employment, marriage, and other factors in explaining patterns of insurance coverage on “The Measure of Everyday Life.”
Professors Kreitzer and Smith publish “Variation in Title X Leads to Contraception Deserts”
November 29, 2018The recent convergence of abortion and contraceptive politics has led to areas where affordable contraception is difficult to come by.