News & Features - Archive 2007 - Spring/Summer 2007
August 7, 2007
Erosion of foundations at home diminishes US leadership in world
In a three-part series published in the online magazine, The Globalist,
PPS Professor Bruce Jentleson examines how the erosion of core domestic foundations
during the Bush years has undermined the inner strength on which U.S. global leadership
must rest. Read the series.
July 19, 2007
Triangle Center to study how Muslim communities address extremism
Finding out how American Muslims address messages of extremism in their communities
will be the goal of a two-year study being launched by the Triangle Center on
Terrorism and Homeland Security. Center Director David Schanzer leads the study.
May 31, 2007
PPS senior kickstarts "Student U" to
motivate local middle-schoolers
Amanda Dorsey, a Duke senior in Public Policy Studies, is using lessons learned
during Tony Brown's Enterprising Leadership class and a summer spent in Tanzania
to inspire future teachers while giving Durham sixth-graders academic confidence.
May 25, 2007
Six weeks in Chernobyl
Sarah Wallace, a Duke senior in Public Policy Studies, is spending her summer
in Ukraine, involved in research pertaining to "the Ark" a new radiation
containment system at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster.
Read her blog postings at http://chernobyl-summer.blogspot.com/
May 13, 2007
Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy announces 2007 student
awards
May 11, 2007
Student evaluates Bush Doctrine in Duke Journal of Public Affairs
PPS senior Matt Yelovich, '07, analyzes how preemptive war became national policy, and why it may be a
suitable U.S. strategy in the post-September 11th era. His article, "Beyond Iraq: Evaluating the
Bush Doctrine and Its Implications," appears as the cover story in the
Duke Journal of Public Affairs.
May 9, 2007
Triangle Institute for Security Studies informs debate on national security threats posed by climate change
The U.S. military is increasingly focused on the national security threats posed
by climate change, and video from a recent conference co-sponsored by the Triangle
Institute for Security Studies and the U.S. Army War College is helping to move
the national and international dialogue on these threats forward.
April 19, 2007
MPPs publish research
For the third year in a row, papers by Sanford Master of Public Policy Students
are among the 10 selected for publication in the Journal of Public and International
Affairs. The journal is jointly published by Princeton University’s
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Association
of Professional Schools of Public Affairs.
Authors and papers accepted were: Emily Grenzke, “Is the Price of School a Major Determinant of Participation in the Education Market? A Study of the Impact of School Fees in Rural Bangladesh”; and Mattia Landoni, “Justice Delayed is Justice Denied: An Overview of the Options to Speed Up Federal Justice.” The journal is available online.
April 19, 2007
Faculty earn accolades
Christina
Gibson-Davis, assistant professor of public policy
and psychology, was named a W.T. Grant Scholar, while Associate Professor of
Public Policy Studies and History Robert
Korstad was awarded
a Bass Chair.
April 18, 2007
Opinion: Bad public policy contributes to the death count
Focusing on individual traits of school shooters such as Seung-Huimay Cho
tells us nothing about how to construct policies to prevent such shootings
from happening in the future.
April 6, 2007
Project builds community support to improve health of diabetics
A research project led by Sherman James, Susan B. King Professor of Public Policy Studies, has joined forces with African American churches in Durham to tackle the diabetes epidemic from the ground up.
March 22, 2007
Brzezinski to speak March 29 on U.S. foreign policy
March 9, 2007
DCID mourns loss of professor
Dennis A. Rondinelli, 63, a faculty member with the Duke University Center for International
Development at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, died March 7 at his home in
Hillsborough.
Feb. 26, 2007
An analysis of student behavior and performance on end-of-grade exams suggests
that sixth graders with older students in middle school has lasting negative
effects [News release] [Research report
(PDF)]
Feb. 14, 2007
Can sanctions help avert Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons? In “Sanctions against Iran: Key Issues,” a new report for The Century Foundation, Duke Professor of Public Policy Bruce
Jentleson analyzes the merits of incentives and sanctions. [ Read news release (PDF) ] [ Read
Report ]
Feb. 7, 2007
PPS student wins NC Student Photographer of the Year
Q&A with Pete Kiehart, PPS student and 2006 Student Photographer of the Year
Feb. 6, 2007
New index ranks Sanford PhD faculty first in scholarly productivity
The Sanford Institute of Public Policy's PhD faculty rank first among their U.S. public policy peers,
according to a new measure of scholarly productivity.
Feb. 6, 2007
Fleishman urges new era of accountability in philanthropy
In a new book, Professor of Public Policy Joel Fleishman argues that although foundations play a vital role in the country's civic life, they must act quickly to mend their arrogant and secretive ways or risk increased public skepticism and government regulation.
Jan. 31, 2007
Speaker series, new course spark dialogue on civil rights
DURHAM, N.C. – High achieving high school students often are labeled geeks
or nerds -- far from cool. But does this phenomenon have anything to do with
race?
Jan. 29, 2007
General calls for decisive plan of action in Iraq
Speaking to a capacity crowd at the Sanford Institute for Public Policy on Jan.
29, Gen. Anthony Zinni, USMC (Ret.), gave a sharply critical analysis of both
the war in Iraq and the current administration's Middle East policy as a whole.
[video] [audio only] [podcast on iTunesU]
Jan. 24, 2007
Gen. Anthony Zinni to Deliver Terry Sanford Distinguished Lecture Jan. 29.
