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The Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) has named Dartmouth economist and Rockefeller Center Director Andrew Samwick its 2009 New Hampshire Professor of the Year. Read the full press release from Dartmouth College's Office of Public Affairs, and the article in The Dartmouth.Listen to the podcast "Innovation and Impact in Teaching" by Professor Samwick. The announcement of Professor Samwick's award was noted in the following media outlets in New England: The Boston Globe [11/18/09], WBZ-TV, Ch. 38, Boston [11/18/09], WMUR-TV, Ch. 9, Manchester, NH [11/18/09]
Amrita Sankar '12 is one of eight new Rockefeller Center interns for the Winter Term. Read about our new interns and where they will be spending their internships. Learn more about the Rockefeller Center public affairs and public policy internships.
Dr. Timothy Hoff, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, Department of Health Policy, Management and Behavior, University at Albany presented "Practice Under Pressure: Saving Primary Care Medicine in the Age of Health Reform" at the Rockefeller Center’s Health Policy Faculty Workshop on Wednesday, November 11. Professor Hoff’s book Practice Under Pressure: Primary Care Physicians and Their Medicine in the Twenty-first Century (Rutgers, 2009) is soon to be released. Learn more about the Center's faculty workshops.
MLDP participants had the opportunity to discuss some of the most difficult and sensitive situations in the workplace on Wednesday October 28, 2009 during the session Diversity in the Workplace: It’s Personal. Presenters, Gabrielle Lucke of the Institute of Diversity and Equity and Sylvia Spears (shown here), Dartmouth College’s Acting Dean of the College were the presenters. A number of new summaries of MLDP sessions are now available. Find out more about MLDP and how you can participate.
Joshua L. Hurd ‘08 graduated with a minor in public policy along with a major, with high honors, in environmental studies. In addition to his minor in public policy, Josh worked in the Policy Research Shop and co-authored several policy briefs. He also was a recipient of Rockefeller funding for an internship at a nonprofit conservation advocacy group in Montana. Upon graduation Josh returned to that organization as a full-time research associate. This fall he began his graduate work toward a master’s degree in public policy at the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. Josh was awarded a full academic fellowship from the Harris School for the two-year program that includes full tuition remission and a $10,000 annual stipend.
The 2008-09 Rockefeller Center Annual Report is now available online. Read about our new leadership initiatives, public policy classes, faculty grants, and much more. The new Rocky By the Numbers page is also included.
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Our fall term public programs series has ended for the semester.
The Center is a sponsor of the following conference
November 21, 2009 - 3 Rockefeller Hall. Open to the public
For more information see the conference website The Ethics of Patriotism
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On November 6, 2009 the Honorable John Hoeven '79, Governor of North Dakota, received the 2009 Nelson A. Rockefeller Distinguished Service Award. In his remarks the Director of the Rockefeller Center, Andrew Samwick, outlined Governor Hoeven's many accomplishments. Since taking office in 2000, Governor Hoeven has expanded and diversified its economy, adding thousands of new jobs and growing its targeted industry sectors. During the Governor's term, North Dakota's personal income growth has outpaced the national average and the State of North Dakota cut property and income taxes by more than half a billion dollars in the last four years, while continuing to fund priorities like education, health care, law enforcement and other critical areas. Read more.
[photo by Tilman Dette '10]
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"Leadership: Past, Present and Future" [October 23, 2009]
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