UConn School of Public Policy (SPP) Professor Ruodan Zhang  became a faculty affiliate for the Sustainable Global Cities Initiative (SGCI) in 2022. In this capacity, Ruodan plays an active role in building and expanding city research at UConn. She is currently working on forthcoming research with Professor Haohan Chen (The University of Hong Kong) and […]

Recently we caught up with UConn School of Public Policy (SPP) Professor Bill Simonsen regarding his research. He had the following updates for our newsletter! Over the past few years, one focus of my research has been with colleagues Mark Robbins and Eric Brunner in the broad area of citizen’ willingness to pay for public […]

UConn School of Public Policy (SPP) Professor Yusun Kim has a forthcoming book chapter entitled ”The Role of Cities and Public Health Expenditures in the COVID-19 Era.” Her contribution will be in Craig Johnson, Tima Moldogaziev and Justin Ross’s “Research Handbook on City and Municipal Finance”. She also has a forthcoming publication in the National […]

UConn School of Public Policy (SPP) Professor Kerri Raissian was appointed earlier this year to the Governor’s Commission on Community Gun Violence Intervention and Prevention. A fews ago she accepted an additional responsibility of chairing the subcommittee on Data Evaluation and Analysis of Grant funded programs. The charge of the committee is not just about […]

UConn School of Public Policy (SPP) Professor Jennifer Dineen will be presenting at the Center for Ethics in Society at Saint Anselm College later this month. She will be discussing joint work with Professor Kerri Raissian at the Ethics, Law, and Social Science of Self-Defense and Firearms workshop. The two co-direct the Gun Violence Prevention […]

School of Public Policy (SPP) Professor Renzo de la Riva Agüero joined our faculty this fall with a focus on public management, comparative politics and public policy. This summer Renzo completed his Ph.D. in Public Policy at Indiana University – Bloomington. Renzo’s dissertation entitled “Too Complex to Deliver? Administrative Capacity, Governance, and Waste Management in […]

UConn School of Public Policy (SPP) Professor Thomas Craemer was featured by non-profit media outlet KQED earlier this year to discuss reparations in California. The feature, “‘It Means to Repair’: What You Should Know About Reparations for Black Californians” was part of a KQED series on Reparations in California that hopes to explore racial equity. His […]

Dr. Vaughn Crichlow is the incoming Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy’s (IMRP) Research Director. He will also be joining the School of Public Policy (SPP) as an Associate Research Professor. Vaughn comes to SPP from Florida Atlantic University (FAU) where he served as an Associate Dean and Associate Professor in the College of Social […]

UConn School of Public Policy (SPP) Professor Eric Brunner published research on wind energy and education finance this year. In June, Eric published “Commercial Wind Energy Installations and Local Economic Development:  Evidence from U.S. Counties” in Volume 165 of Energy Policy with Master of Public Administration (MPA) alum David Schwegman. They examined the impact of wind […]

UConn School of Public Policy (SPP) Professor Nina Brooks is currently a Co-Investigator on a project entitled “Improving Brick Manufacturing in Bangladesh to Promote Clean Air and Better Health.” This ongoing collaborative study is led by Stanford University with partners in Bangladesh (icddr,b and the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology) and India (Greentech Knowledge Solutions). The […]