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November 13 , 2009
Abortion wars versus reform
Assistant Professor of PPS Donald H. Taylor, Jr. comments on Health Care Reform: Latest in a Series
November 6 , 2009
Insurance across state lines
Assistant Professor of PPS Donald H. Taylor, Jr. comments on Health Care Reform: Latest in a Series
November 2, 2009
Report Recommends Ways to Rescue Watchdog Journalism
The emerging field of computational journalism offers hope for preserving the “watchdog” function of journalism, an essential element in the healthy functioning of democracy, says a report released today by the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy. The report, “Accountability through Algorithm: Developing the Field of Computational Journalism,” identifies four target areas for innovation.
October 30, 2009
The option has limits
Assistant Professor of PPS Donald H. Taylor, Jr. comments on Health Care Reform: Latest in a Series
October 23, 2009
Taxing high-cost insurance policies
Assistant Professor of PPS Donald H. Taylor, Jr. comments on Health Care Reform: Latest in a Series
October 22, 2009
Hold that line? For 80 years, universities haven't
Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy Charles Clotfelter discusses the role of college sports in American education
October 22, 2009
Sarah Cohen: Master of Information
Profile of Sarah Cohen, recently appointed Knight Professor of the Practice in Journalism and Public Policy at Sanford's DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy
October 20, 2009
Sanford School of Public Policy Receives $5.75 Million Gift
David Rubenstein’s $5.75 million gift to the Sanford School of Public Policy will provide endowment for the Program in Environmental and Energy Policy, a speaker series, and student internship support.
October 16, 2009
Sticking Points for a Final Plan
Assistant Professor of PPS Donald H. Taylor, Jr. comments on Health Care Reform: Latest in a Series
October 13, 2009
Three Ideas for Improving Health Care
Assistant Professor of PPS Donald H. Taylor, Jr. and Frank Hill, Chief of Staff to former North Carolina Congressman Alex McMillan and former U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole.
October 10, 2009
Bascus Plan’s Middle Road
Assistant Professor of PPS Donald H. Taylor, Jr. comments on Health Care Reform: Latest in a Series
October 8, 2009
Sanford Professors Scrutinize Immigration Policy, Recession’s Effects on Immigrants
October 7, 2009
What should immigrants do when they get here?
October 2, 2009
Medicare + Choice = Insurance Boon
Assistant Professor of PPS Donald H. Taylor, Jr. comments on Health Care Reform: Latest in a Series
September 28, 2009
School Installs Permanent Exhibit: “Terry Sanford: An American Original”
September 28, 2009
Public Policy Class Creates Website to Question Duke Social Norms
September 25, 2009
Opening Up to Choice
Assistant Professor of PPS Donald H. Taylor, Jr. comments on Health Care Reform: Latest in a Series
September 25, 2009
Celebrating Sanford’s Inaugural Year
The former institute founded by Terry Sanford celebrates its new status as a school
September 18, 2009
Inside the Senate Panel’s Plan
Assistant Professor of PPS Donald H. Taylor, Jr. comments on Health Care Reform: Latest in a Series
September 11, 2009
How to Broaden Consensus
Assistant Professor of PPS Donald H. Taylor, Jr. comments on Health Care Reform: Latest in a Series
August 31, 2009
Fleishman to be Honored at Founders’ Day Convocation Oct. 1
Joel Fleishman, the first director of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, will deliver the keynote address at Duke University’s Founder’s Day Convocation ceremony on Oct. 1. Fleishman will also receive the University Medal for Distinguished Service.
August 30, 2009
The Breathalyzer Behind the Wheel
Professor Phil Cook and doctoral student Maeve Gearing write in a New York Times op-ed that ignition-interlock devices can reduce repeat drunk-driving offenses by 65 percent. If they were widely installed, the devices would save up to 750 lives a year, a recent National Highway Transportation Safety Administration report estimated.
August 21, 2009
We Simply Must Spend Less
Assistant Professor of PPS Donald H. Taylor, Jr. comments on Health Care Reform: Latest in a Series
August 14, 2009
A Bipartisan Way to Cut Medicare Costs
Assistant Professor of PPS Donald H. Taylor, Jr. comments on Health Care Reform: Latest in a Series
August 7, 2009
First, Physicians Must Be on Board
Assistant Professor of PPS Donald H. Taylor, Jr. comments on Health Care Reform: Latest in a Series
July 31, 2009
Diagnosing Health Care’s Cost
Assistant Professor of PPS Donald H. Taylor, Jr. comments on Health Care Reform: Latest in a Series
July 24, 2009
An Alternative Plan from GOP’S Burr
Assistant Professor of PPS Donald H. Taylor, Jr. comments on Health Care Reform: Latest in a Series
July 17, 2009
Government Insurance and Useful Innovation
Assistant Professor of PPS Donald H. Taylor, Jr. comments on Health Care Reform: Latest in a Series
July 16, 2009
Duke Public Policy Professor Named U.S. State Department Advisor
Bruce Jentleson, a professor of public policy at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, was sworn in last week as Senior Advisor to the U.S. State Department Policy Planning Director. He will continue active teaching and advising at Duke.
July 10, 2009
Deleting a Tax Subsidy from the Equation
Assistant Professor of PPS Donald H. Taylor, Jr. comments on Health Care Reform: First in a Series
June 18, 2009
Sanford Students Blog from Around the World
June 7, 2009
At the Heart of Health Insurance
One of the basic laws of health insurance is that the healthy subsidize the sick, says Assistant Professor of PPS Donald H. Taylor, Jr.
May 9, 2009
Duke Trustees Approve Creation of Sanford School
In recognition of the Sanford Institute’s growth and success over the last 38 years, Duke Board of Trustees approve its transition to school status as of July 1, 2009. Duke President Richard H. Brodhead says the new school is “crucial to our mission of bringing knowledge to the service of society.”
May 7, 2009
Dorsey Earns Sanford Leadership Award
Alison Dorsey, a senior from Woodside, Calif., graduating with a degree in public policy studies, is the winner of this year’s Terry Sanford Leadership Award for her contributions to Duke and the Durham Community.
April 22, 2009
Conference to Explore Nonprofit Media Ownership
A small group of leaders from nonprofit and commercial media, foundations and academia will gather May 4-5 at Duke University’s Sanford Institute of Public Policy for a series of working sessions to explore new models for nonprofit ownership of media. One conference paper has been made available in advance: “A Nonprofit Model for The New York Times?” by Penelope Muse Abernathy.
April 9, 2009
Washington Post Editor Named To Knight Chair At Duke,
Will Focus On ‘Computational Journalism’
Sarah Cohen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and expert on computer-assisted investigative journalism, has been named to the Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University. Cohen, database editor at The Washington Post since 1999, will lead a computational journalism initiative spearheaded by Duke's DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy (DWC).
April 9, 2009
Cheney’s misfiring security critique
April 8, 2009
Undergraduate Teaching Award Named in Honor of Tifft
The Sanford Institute of Public Policy has established the Susan Tifft Undergraduate
Teaching/Mentoring Award in honor of the longtime Eugene C. Patterson Professor
of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy. Tifft, who has taught at
Duke since 1998, will step down in July.
March 31, 2009
Washington Post’s Philip Bennett to Join Sanford Faculty
Philip Bennett, who in four years as managing editor of The Washington Post helped lead the newspaper to 10 Pulitzer Prizes, has been named the new Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University, university officials announced today.
March 25, 2009
Patenting and Licensing Monopolies Create Problems in U.S. Clinical Genetic Testing
DURHAM, N.C.-- Patenting of genes has not resulted in a pattern of exorbitant pricing or restricted access to tests for diseases such as Alzheimer’s and breast cancer, Duke University researchers report in Wednesday’s Nature magazine. However, genetic testing monopolies are creating significant problems, say authors Robert Cook-Deegan, Subhashini Chandrasekharan and Misha Angrist.
March 20, 2009
Council Hears Plans to Move Forward on New Sanford School
The Sanford Institute for Public Policy is moving forward with its plans for becoming a school at the end of the current fiscal year, despite having fallen short of its fund-raising goal, Provost Peter Lange and Institute Director Bruce Kuniholm told the Academic Council Friday.
March 20, 2009
“Lost Boys of Sudan” Talk About Rebuilding Their Country
March 18, 2009
Panel to Feature National Leader on Teen Pregnancy
March 11, 2009
Financial Crises Past and Present
Giovanni Zanalda, a visiting assistant professor of public policy and history, teaches a timely course on the history and patterns of economic meltdowns.
March 5, 2009
Johnson Wins Two Emmys for Digital TV Special
March 4, 2009
Jentleson Discusses Meeting with Syrian President
Professor of Public Policy and Political Science Bruce Jentleson examines prospects for improved U.S.-Syrian relations. Jentleson and colleagues from the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Stimson Center met with Syrian President Bashar Assad in January for substantive talks on shared interests in the Middle East.
March 2, 2009
Labor Reform Key to Economic Recovery, Again
Lessons of history show that the economic recovery needs the worker rights reforms in the proposed Employee Free Choice Act in order to succeed, say Professor of PPS and History Robert Korstad and doctoral candidate Max Krochmal.
February 27, 2009
Cold War Historian Discusses Grand Strategy
February 18, 2009
Op-Ed: Slumdog Captures Need for Anti-Poverty Policies
February 10, 2009
Former LA Times Editor Speaks on Future of Journalism
Journalism legend John Carroll, who served as editor-in-chief of the LA Times from 2000 to 2005, spoke about the problems with corporate ownership of newspapers and the difficulties the Internet has created for the industry.
February 5, 2009
Newark Mayor Calls for ‘Moral Imagination’
Newark Mayor Cory Booker appealed to Duke students to commit themselves to political engagement and social justice.
February 3, 2009
Students Research Honors Projects Examine Issues of Gender and Faith
Each fall, PPS students in the undergraduate honor seminar taught by Assistant Professor of PPS Judith Kelley conduct original research and write a thesis. Two projects of special relevance during an election year are described here: Gender and Framing In Political Campaign Ads by Samantha Fahrbach and Citizens of Faith and The Theory of Public Reason by Kylie Harrell.
February 2, 2009
In the Wake of the Tsumani
The STAR study by Associate Professor of PPS Elizabeth Frankenberg is long range study of the impact of the tsumani in Indonesia based on interviews with more than 20,500 adult survivors. It will be the largest ever studies of groups affected by disasters.
February 2, 2009
Rogerson Explores Nations' Varied Technology Policies
The "digital divide" is the gap between people who have easy access to digital technology and those who don't. Like technology itself, the digital divide is changing rapidly, and countries differ widely in the their approach to the problem.
January 23, 2009
Israeli Think Tank Leader Addresses Ethics in Government
Photo Exhibit Displays ‘Disparate Worlds’
Arye Carmon, president of the Jerusalem-based think tank
Israel Democracy Institute (IDI), will present a lecture and exhibition of
his photographs at Duke University’s Terry Sanford Institute of Public
Policy on Monday, Jan. 26.
“A Struggling Democracy Confronts Political and Governmental Ethics: The Case of Israel” begins at 4:30 p.m. in the Rhodes Conference Room. The event, which is free and open to the public, will include a reception and exhibit opening immediately following the lecture in the Sanford Building lobby.
January 22, 2009
GITMO Detainees: What Are the Options?
In one of his first acts in office, President Obama ordered the closing of
the Guantanamo Bay detention camp within a year and the immediate halting
the military trials of detainees. The order did not resolve the question of
what is to be done with the detainees, which was the topic of a Jan. 22 panel
discussion at Duke University.
January 8, 2009
Can News be Saved? DeWitt Wallace Center Plans to Try
As part of his search to fill a newly endowed professorship,
Jay Hamilton discusses the emerging field of "computational journalism",
a technology-assisted method intended to improve the quality of investigative
reporting. Through a process known as data mining, which involves complex
mathematical algorithms sorting through immense quantities of data, Hamilton
and others hope to make investigative reporting more efficient, and also
more economically viable in a difficult time for the newspaper industry.
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