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 […]
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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 […]
DPP Faculty Search – Environmental Policy and Sustainability
The Department of Public Policy, along with other departments within the University of Connecticut College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, invite applications for four positions at the level of Assistant Professor and two appointments at the Associate or Full Professor level as part of a cluster hire in the Environment and Human Interactions. For more […]
A Week In The Life of Professor Mark D. Robbins
View from a professor’s desk, week of September 21, 2020. With added notes by our Outreach Coordinator Lian. For many faculty fall is conference season. Early in the spring many of our regular conferences were cancelled or postponed, only to be resurrected later in various forms, in some cases cascading on top of each other […]
Addressing Public Sector Imbalances with Associate Professor Deneen Hatmaker
This summer Department of Public Policy (DPP) Associate Professor Deneen Hatmaker co-authored a book entitled “Gender Imbalance in Public Sector Leadership”. Hatmaker’s co-authors include: Leisha DeHart-Davis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Kimberly L. Nelson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Sanjay K. Pandey, George Washington University, Washington DC Sheela Pandey, Penn State Harrisburg Amy […]
DPP Professors Awarded 2020 InCHIP Seed Grant
UConn’s Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP) awards yearly Seed Grants to fund innovative research on a wide range of health topics. Each year the Seed Grants are used to fund pilot projects and examine significant health-related research questions. Department of Public Policy (DPP) Associate Professor In-Residence Jennifer Dineen and Associate Professor […]
Recapping Summer Short Courses with the DPP
Throughout the month of August, the Department of Public Policy (DPP) offered two short courses in Survey Analysis in Stata and R. These courses were taught by DPP Associate Professor Thomas Craemer. About 30 students took advantage of these online summer opportunities to strengthen their capacity to manage data sets, define missing values, and create […]
Recapping “Beyond Thoughts and Prayers” Panel Discussion
On Thursday, June 25, 2020, the UConn Department of Public Policy partnered with Professor Brandi Blessett of the University of Cincinnati, to present a conversation discussing solutions to the police violence against black people in our country.
Addressing Child Neglect and Policy-making with UConn DPP and SSW
April was Child Abuse Awareness month, and Department of Public Policy (DPP) Associate Professor Kerri Raissian and School of Social Work (SSW) Assistant Professor Megan Feely with their collaborators published both a brief and alert with UConn’s Collaboratory on School and Child Health (CSCH) on preventing child neglect. Their briefing argued that researchers and policymakers […]
DPP Ranked 9th in Public Finance & Budgeting and 38th in Public Affairs
UConn’s Department of Public Policy (DPP) is proud to announce that the U.S. News & World Report continued to rank the Department’s public finance and budgeting offerings 9th in the nation. The DPP’s public affairs program was also ranked 38th. This public affairs ranking represents a jump of nine spots up from last year. A […]