Recent Student Academic Activities:

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Publications
Sat Ananda Hayden	W. Brandon, Lutchmie Narine, and Sat Ananda Hayden, “UNC Charlotte Evaluates Physicians Reach Out,” Mecklenburg Medicine 34 (No. 9, October 2004): 12.
Bobbie Fields	"Demographics of African Americans and Hispanic/Latinos in the Charlotte Region." By Bobbie J. Fields November 2003.
Olga Smirnova	"Migration and Economic Growth", published in the proceedings for the conference "Economic Growth 2004", Baku, Azerbaijan, February 2004.

 

Awards and other outstanding academic achievements:

Olga Smirnova received first prize in graduate category in the Spring 2004 Student Writing Competition on the theme of "Crossing Borders". Galen Smith received the 2003 Best Student Paper Award from the UNCC Health Services Research Academy on March 25, 2004 for his submission titled, "The Use of Reference Drug Pricing as a Possible Strategy to Contain U.S. Prescription Drug Expenditures." This was the second consecutive year that Galen won this award. Junfeng Wang: award 'MPA student of 2003' at Pembroke University in May, 2003. Yoshiko Takahashi: the first place in the World Society of Victimology Paper Competition with the paper 'Balancing Approach: The use of apology in Japanese society' on April 22nd, 2003. Galen Smith: the Health Services Research Academy Student Paper award on April 18th, 2003 for his paper "The Use of Social Science Variables to Describe the Utilization of Prozac (fluoxetine)" Bobbie J. Fields: UNC Charlotte Health Services Research Academy Student Paper Award 2001 "Quality of Care in the Long-Term Care Setting: A Theoretical Framework"

 

Conferences and professional meetings attended
Presenters/ Attendee's name*	Presentation Title/Organization, Place, Date
Gainor Eisenlohr	Urban Affairs Conference in Washington, DC, 2004
Gainor Eisenlohr	Presented: Developing Neighborhood Leadership, City of Charlotte Neighborhood Symposium, 2004
Kimberly Carter Schmittou	Attended a Metropolitan Planning Conference in March funded by the Transportation Policy Studies.
Nicholas Swartz	Conferences attended: -SECOPA 2003 (Southeastern Conference of Public Administrators), Columbia, South Carolina -National ICMA (International City/County Manager's Association), Charlotte, NC -State of North Carolina ICMA Conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Nicholas Swartz	Connecting Knowledge and Policy: The Promise of Community Indicators co-authored with Milan Dluhy, PhD and presented at the national ASPA conference March, 04
Barbara John	Attended Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, March 2004, Philadelphia, PA.
Bobbie Fields	Participated in the conferences: Community College National Center for Community Engagement (CCNCCE) 13th Annual National Conference Phoenix, Arizona, May 26th - May 29th 2004 North Carolina Sociological Association-Raleigh, NC March 13, 2004
Bobbie Fields	The Millennial Generation: Are Higher Education and the Workforce Ready for Them? by Bobbie Fields and Terri Manning, June 2004 Association for Institutional Research National Conference (AIR) Boston, Mass., May 30th - June 2, 2004
Bobbie Fields	Student Assessment of Teaching as a Component of the Assessment Process: The Teacher Evaluation Assessment Survey (TEAS) by Bobbie Fields and Terri Manning, February 2004. Presented at tri-conference of North Carolina Professional Researcher's Organization- South Carolina Professional Researcher's Organization and Community College Professional Researcher's Organization (NCAIR/SCAIR/CCPRO). Sunset Beach, NC February16 -18, 2004
Bobbie Fields	Homeless Shelter Innovation Grant Due to results of a student evaluation of the Uptown Men's Shelter in Spring of 2003, she initiated a proposal for an Innovation Grant through CPCC. The grant funds were needed to establish a GED/ABLE program at the Uptown Men's Shelter and the need for classes was identified through the public policy evaluation conducted by Dr. Godwin's Public Policy Process class of Spring 2003. The proposal was funded and classes were implemented in the shelter in the Spring of 2004.
Bobbie Fields	Involved in a project in collaboration with the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute to develop a civic index outlining public policy issues and proposals to be addressed in the next 10 years for Richmond County in Rockingham, NC. The project involves application of public policy analysis and an evaluation of the recommendations proposed by the town's committee members.
Gainor Eisenlohr	ICPSR Class on the U.S. Census, summer, 2003
Steve Stemkowski	Further Validation of AHRQ's Patient Safety Indicators. Paper accepted for poster presentation at 2004 Academy Health Annual Research Meeting. (co-author) Nashville, TN
Steve Stemkowski	In-hospital Mortality and Beta-Blocker Use among Patient Diagnosed with ST-Elevated Acute Myocardial Infarction. Paper accepted for poster presentation at 2004 Academy Health Annual Research Meeting. (co-author) Nashville, TN
Steve Stemkowski	Composite Quality Scoring and Pay-for-Performance: The Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration Project. Paper accepted for poster presentation at 2004 Academy Health Annual Research Meeting. (co-author) Nashville, TN
Olga Smirnova	Migration and Economic Growth paper presented at the first international student conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, February 2004.
Steve Stemkowski	CMS Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration Project - Composite Scoring Methodology Overview Paper presented to project participants in Web-supported teleconference, January 2004
Steve Stemkowski	National Health Policy Conference, Washington DC Institute for Healthcare Improvement National Conference, New Orleans, LA Academy Health Annual Research Meeting, Nashville, TN
Barbara John	Attended Annual Meeting of the South Eastern Division of the Association of American Geographers, Nov. 2003, Charlotte, NC.
Bobbie Fields, Huiping Li, Olga Smirnova, and Junfeng Wang	Twenty-Fifth Annual APPAM Research Conference 6-8 November, 2003 - Washington DC The "M in APPAM": Taking a Special Look at the Capacity of Government to Implement Public Policies
Galen Smith	AARP International Forum on Long-Term Care: International Approaches to Financing and Delivery; October 22, 2003; Washington, D.C.
Huili Hao, Nicholas Swartz, Yoshiko Takahashi, and Junfeng Wang	SECOPA 2004 Southern Conference of Public Administrators, October 12-14, 2003, Savannah, GA Rediscovering the Administrative State: New Appreciation for the Role of Government
Qianhong Tang	Presentation "Integrated GIS-Water Quality Modeling for Managing Black Vermillion Watershed in Kansas, US" at the International Conference of GIS and Remote Sensing in Hydrology,  Water Resources and Environment was held in Three Gorges Dam, China from Sept. 16-19, 2003T
Galen Smith	20th Annual Research Meeting Academy Health June 27-29, 2003 Gaylord Opryland Hotel Nashville, Tennessee
Olga Smirnova	Pull factors for the international migration in the Russian Far East: Reconfiguring Russian identity” at the panel “History, National Identity, and Geo-Political Disorder in Far Eastern Russia. 8th annual convention of the Association for the Studies of Nationalities “History, National Identity, and Political order in the New Eastern Europe and Euroasia,” Columbia University, New York, the USA, April 2003
Vivian B. Lord, Ph.D and Bobbie J. Fields.	A Process and Outcome Evaluation of Drug Treatment Courts in Mecklenburg County District 26. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences 40th Annual National Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, the USA, March 6th, 2003
Olga Smirnova	Changing of migration patterns in Eastern Europe and Russia after the dissolution of Soviet Union North Carolina Political Science Association conference “America at war: New World, New Challenges, and Old Problems”, Elon University, USA,  March,  2003
Galen Smith	2003 National Health Policy Conference January 22-23, 2003 J.W. Marriott Hotel Washington, D.C.

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