Events

Beyond Thoughts and Prayers: Strategies to Eradicate Anti-Black Police Violence

On June 25th, the Department of Public Policy (DPP) and the University of Cincinnati will be hosting a webinar from 5pm – 7pm entitled “Beyond Thoughts and Prayers: Strategies to Eradicate Anti-Black Police Violence”.  Modern anti-Black police violence predates the cold-blooded murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers. This present-day abuse […]

Rising Up and Celebrating the DPP Class of 2020

On the evening of Friday, May 22nd the Department of Public Policy (DPP) celebrated it’s 2020 graduates with a global online contingency to celebrate the 68 graduates. Our graduates included students from the Master of Arts in Survey Research (MASR), MPA Fellows, Master of Public Administration (MPA), and Master of Public Policy (MPP) programs. The […]

What’s Ahead with UConn DPP: March 10 – March 27

Here’s the next two weeks with DPP: Monday, March 9 College of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources Career Night (3:30pm – 7pm, Student Union Ballroom) Tuesday, March 10 Professional Development: Microaggressions  UConn Hartford Fast-Track (FT), MPA, & MPP Info Session  (12:30pm – 1:30pm in HTB, Room 209) Information Table (11am – 12pm in Hartford Campus […]

Weekly Recap: Good Luck On Finals!

Last Week: Associate Professor Kerri Raissian kicked off our week on Monday with a research feature on UConn Today’s newsletter. Her research, completed in collaboration with Megan Feely of UConn Social Work, Lindsey Bullinger of Georgia Tech, William Schneider of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, focuses on macro-level factors of child neglect. Read more on this […]

Weekly Recap: The Final Stretch

Finals are next week, but we still have one more week of classes. Last week was Fall Recess for the Huskies We rounded out the final days of classes with with Professor Yusun Kim attending the National Tax Association Conference in Tampa, Florida from November 21-23, 2019. Professor Kim presented on “Estimating Returns to Scale […]