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 […]

Interim Vice President for Finance and Chief Financial Officer and UConn School of Public Policy (SPP) Professor Lloyd Blanchard was promoted to Professor In-Residence earlier this year.  Lloyd continues to serve on the Executive Board of the Preschool through 20 and Workforce Information Network (P20 WIN). He assumed this role in late 2021. According to […]

Earlier this year Professor Mohamad Alkadry was named UConn School of Public Policy’s (SPP) inaugural Director. He began serving as Department Head in 2017. In preparation for a surge in retirements across Connecticut this year, Mohamad and MPA Fellows alum Tara Downes have been studying demographic data for executive branch agencies. Their study of more […]