Each year, Professor Mark Robbins awards the highest performing investment portfolio the coveted “Money Bunny” award in his Public Investment Analysis class. The previous year’s awardee attends the award ceremony and talk about how the money bunny changed their lives. This year’s recipient is Master of Public Policy (MPP) 2021 and Public Financial Management (PFM) […]
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Social Equity and Social Policy at UConn
Eric Brunner Receives Grant to Examine Causal Impact of Attending a Career Technical High School: With Steve Ross and Shaun Dougherty, Brunner will look at the causal impact of attendance on student achievement, high school graduation, college enrollment, and adult earnings. This builds upon their 2019 work on technical education in Connecticut. Their grant comes from the Institute of […]
Mental Health Monday: Finals Edition
The Department of Public Policy’s (DPP) faculty and staff would like to wish you good luck on finals! We know that this can be a challenging and stressful time. If you need help managing stress and anxiety, UConn’s Student Health and Wellness Services (SHaWS) will be providing a variety of free online workshops. Here are a […]
Assistant Professor Ruodan Zhang Uses Machine Learning to Improve the Retrievability of IRS 990 Text Data
Department of Public Policy (DPP) Assistant Professor Ruodan Zhang is working with Haohan Chen, a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Social Media and Politics, New York University, to develop a method that helps researchers and practitioners identify nonprofit organizations of interest. This research project takes advantage of the newly available nonprofit mission and program […]
DPP Staff Help to Distribute Food during the Pandemic
Jason Jakubowski ’01 MPA is the President and CEO of Foodshare, a nonprofit network of 250 pantries and 60 mobile sites which has helped to feed more than 200,000 people across the Greater Hartford area since April. Over Thanksgiving Jakubowski and his team helped to distribute more than 20,000 turkeys. Last week members of the […]
DPP Fast-Track Aspires To Be An International Lawyer
Laura Bedoya is a Fast-Track student in the Department of Public Policy (DPP). After completing her Bachelors in Political Science and Latin American Studies this spring, Laura plans to complete her Masters in Public Administration (MPA). She joined the Fast-Track because she is passionate about advocacy and policy. Laura credits the program for gaining stronger […]
Incoming MASR Fast-Track Hopes to Utilize a Media and Communication Campaigns Track to Explore Other Cultures
Incoming Master of Arts in Survey Research (MASR) – Media and Communication Campaigns Fast-Track student Grace Sholtes aspires to be like her Opa. For Grace that means taking risks, stepping outside of her comfort zone, learning about people and cultures, and seeing where life takes her. She sees the Fast-Track as an opportunity to improve […]
Nonprofit Management at UConn
Assistant Professor Ruodan Zhang Uses Machine Learning to Improve the Retrievability of IRS 990 Text Data Zhang is working with New York University’s Haohan Chen to develop a method that helps researchers and practitioners identify nonprofit organizations of interest. This research takes advantage of the newly available nonprofit mission and program service activity description data reported in […]
DPP Welcomes New Social Media Student Assistant
The Department of Public Policy (DPP) would like to welcome Rachel Rattan, MPP ‘21, as the Social Media Student Assistant. Rachel is completing her second year in the Master of Public Policy (MPP) program with a focus area in Public Policy, Diversity, and Inclusion. Rachel is completing an IPP Internship with the Connecticut Department of […]
DPP Team Provides Expertise to US Department of Treasury and United Nations Development Programme
A team led by UConn Department of Public Policy (DPP) Professor Mark Robbins is providing expertise, project assistance and coordination to the US Department of Treasury and the United Nations Development Program. The team also includes DPP Professors Mohamad Alkadry, Bill Simonsen and Lloyd Blanchard. This development came about as a strategy to improve the […]