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.
David Pierce - NH State Representative (Grafton- District 09) visited Professor Ron Shaiko’s PBPL 45: Introduction to Public Policy Research class on October 21 to discuss with students the NH legislative policy making process. He will be sponsoring a student project on third party ballot access. Students will be analyzing the varying levels of difficulty in granting third parties access to ballot positions across all of the states and assessing the current New Hampshire ballot access laws in comparison to the standards set in other states. Last year Rep. Pierce sponsored a Policy Research Shop (PRS) project on voter suppression [policy brief 0809-02]; three PRS students testified on the issue before the Election Law Committee in the New Hampshire House of Representatives in March of 2009. Learn more about the Center's Policy Research Shop.
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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The Honorable John Hoeven ’79, Governor of North Dakota, 2009 recipient of the Nelson A. Rockefeller public service award
The Honorable John H. Lynch, Governor of New Hampshire
“Governing a State During a National Recession”
Panel Discussion
Friday, November 6
4:30 PM • 3 Rockefeller Hall
Dr. David S. C. Chu, President and CEO of the Institute for Defense Analyses, former Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, Department of Defense .
"The Challenge of Managing Defense"
Tuesday, November 10
4:30 PM • 3 Rockefeller Hall
THE BROOKS FAMILY LECTURE
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Receiving a Rockefeller Center Faculty Research grant, Sienna Craig, Assistant Professor of Anthropology attended the VIIth Congress of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine (IASTAM) in Bhutan this September 7-11, 2009. She received support toward travel and lodging expenses for participants convening in a large, diverse panel entitled: Cultivating the Wilds: Considering Potency, Protection, and Profit in the Use of Materia Medica in Transnational Asian Medicines. This conference represented an unprecedented opportunity for communication between academics, field scientists, and practitioners concerned with the scholarship and practice traditional Asian medicines. This specific panel in which Professor Craig participated focused on the source materials that literally and figuratively undergird Asian medical systems. Learn more
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Dr. William Fischel- "Making the Grade" [October 15, 2009]
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