News & Features - Archive 2006

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Dec. 8, 2006
Jonathan B. Wiener, Perkins Professor of Law and Professor of Environmental Policy and Public Policy Studies at Duke University, was elected the next president of the international Society for Risk Analysis (SRA). [more]

Dec. 6, 2006
Professor of PPS and Political Science Bruce Jentleson presents December 7 in Washington, D.C., at the Stanley Foundation Conference on National and Global Security as part of the conference panel "Enforcement of International Norms: Bringing and Keeping Dissenters in the Fold."

In his related policy analysis brief, he writes, "While the dust has not yet fully settled, the success achieved in the Libya case ... offers a striking contrast with Iraq, where military force was wielded too quickly with too little diplomacy." Read the policy analysis brief: "Coercive Diplomacy: Scope and Limits in the Contemporary World." (PDF).

Dec. 4, 2006
Professor of the Practice Tony Brown to Take "Entrepreneurial Learning" Methods to Robertson Scholars Program at UNC and Duke
After 12 years, Brown will leave "best job at Duke" for opportunity to encourage great students to act on their biggest ideas.

Nov. 21, 2006
Duke senior Jimmy Soni earns Mitchell Scholarship for year of graduate study in Ireland.

Nov. 20, 2006
Reducing Energy Costs for Durham Families
Saving energy In an effort to help local families reduce home energy use, students in public policy professor Tony Brown’s community leadership course delivered packages of energy-saving light bulbs to the Durham County Department of Social Services for free distribution.

Nov. 20, 2006
MPP Students Seek Policy Solutions in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Master’s students travel to New Orleans to see post-Katrina policy issues firsthand. Their visits forges connections for spring policy consulting projects that will help the Big Easy rebuild. [more]

Nov. 16, 2006
Lobbying for land rights, social services in Uganda
Through ActionAid, second-year master’s students Dave Cohen and Kenzie Strong worked on capacity building projects in Kapchorwa, Uganda with local community-based organizations, including the Benet Lobby Group. Cohen’s and Strong’s Web site -- full of beautiful photographs of the region, the people and their work -- chronicles their experiences during the summer of 2006.

Nov. 15, 2006
Op-Ed: Tough Lessons of Iraq Were Already in the History Books
By Dennis A. Rondinelli, senior research scholar at the Sanford Institute’s Duke Center for International Development and professor emeritus of international management at UNC-Chapel Hill.
The real tragedy of our policy is that if the U.S. president and the British prime minister had simply read the history of the British occupation of Iraq, they would have discovered most of the complexities with which we now struggle. [more]

Nov. 8, 2006
Charles Sanders, chairman of the Sanford Institute Board of Visitors, earns state's highest civilian honor -- the North Carolina Award -- for contributions to science. [more]

Nov. 7, 2006
Research refutes ideas that political orientation is a heritable trait
There is a trend among behavioral scientists to view ever more complex “attitudes” and/or “systems of belief” as in some sense genetically determined, or heritable. Current research by Assistant Professor of Public Policy Evan Charney refutes the idea that political orientations could be genetically transmitted. Read the paper.

Oct. 19, 2006
Senior statesman offers views on Senate
Sen. Thad Cochran delivers 2006 Sanford Lecture [more]

Oct. 16, 2006
MPP Alum Helps to Preserve Costa Rican Forests
Olga Corrales, MPP ’92, has worked at the World Bank [more]

Oct. 9, 2006
News Tip: Duke Experts Examine Possible Motive, Reaction to North Korea's Nuclear Test
North Korea’s actions warrant a swift, firm response from the U.N. Security Council, says public policy professor Bruce Jentleson.

Oct. 6, 2006
Op-Ed: Where Do Killers Get Their Guns?
By Kristin A. Goss, assistant professor of public policy studies and political science
Whenever a school shooting occurs, as in the Pennsylvania Amish country this week, or in Colorado and Wisconsin last month, or in Vermont and North Carolina the month before, we understandably seek answers -- to the wrong question. [more]

Sept. 30, 2006
Where Policies Meet the People
MPP Candidate Elizabeth Sasser’s summer internship in China gave her a chance to see first-hand how education policies affect rural and migrant families. [more]

Sept. 29, 2006
Undergrad Experiences ‘Academic Citizenship’
First Duke senior Jimmy Soni read the books about the dramatic last years of the Soviet Union and its collapse. Then, thanks to an undergraduate research opportunity with Bruce Jentleson, he met the man behind the books. [more]

Sept. 5, 2006
Grad Students Connect with Durham Service Organizations
New orientation program connect students with community, avoids “tunnel vision.” [more]

Aug. 28, 2006
Margaret Rose Knight Sanford Dies at Age 88
The wife of late Duke president, North Carolina governor and U.S. senator Terry Sanford was an avid philanthropist and arts patron.

Aug. 10, 2006
London Arrests Signal Improved Intelligence, Possible Resurgence of Al-Qaeda, Expert Says
Thwarted bomb plot in London reflects strong international cooperation against terrorism, but security gaps still exist that can be exploited by terrorists, says David Schanzer, director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security.

July 19, 2006
PPS Alum Hits the Road with Alternative Fuel Campaign
Mark Pike wanted to take a cross-country road trip, but with gas prices at an all-time high and policymakers bemoaning America’s addiction to oil, Pike’s nostalgic vision collided head on with his sense of right and wrong.

June 30, 2006
An Historic Gift, an Opportunity to Lead
By Joel Fleishman, Professor of PPS and Law; Director, Foundation Impact Research Program
About 100 years after Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller Sr., established foundations and other endowed institutions to be named for themselves, Warren Buffett, in a stroke that caught the attention of much of the world, announced he would give away $31 billion, over a period of years, to a foundation named not for himself but for two other major donors — Bill and Melinda Gates. [more]

June 29, 2006
News Tip: Secondhand Smoke Carries Large Financial Costs
In light of the surgeon general's recent report on secondhand smoke, it's clear that the smokers aren't the only ones who bear the cost of their habit, says assistant professor of public policy studies a health policy professor Donald Taylor.

June 27, 2006
News Tip: Gift to Gates Foundation Underlines Need for Accountability, Professor Says
Foundations need to become “relentlessly and thoroughly transparent” in their operations if they are to avoid government regulation, says Joel Fleishman, professor of public policy and law and the founding director of the Sanford Institute of Public Policy.

June 12, 2006
Surprising Success Among Hispanic Students
In the red-hot debate on immigration policy in the United States, some pundits point to the poor academic performance of Hispanic students as evidence that the melting pot isn’t working… But new research reveals that the school careers of Hispanic students tend to be marked by steady progress, not stagnation.

May 12, 2006
Faculty Give Conditional Approval to Public Policy School
Plans for transforming the Terry Sanford Institute for Public Policy into Duke’s 10th school received conditional approval Thursday from the Academic Council.

May 17, 2006
In Katrina’s Wake
A myriad of post-Katrina investigations have found that the FEMA we have today is not the FEMA that was considered a model agency during much of the 1990s.

May 22, 2006
Beyond Legal and Illegal
Following Jane Addams’ lead, we must encourage immigrants to become responsible members of our political community.

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