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Current Update.PPOL Update March 30, 2007PPOL Students: Here’s the latest PPOL Update. I am a little pressed for time and getting ready to leave town, so I apologize in advance for any additional lack of polish to this Update. I will be back in the office on Wednesday morning if anyone has any questions or needs to see me. Have a good weekend! In this issue: 5. Deadline for ARNOVA Conference Proposal Submissions Extended 6.Graduate Research Conference 11.Mecklenburg Health Disaster Planning Lecture 14. Iraq Documentary with Director
There’s been an interesting development in the efforts to fill the faculty position in Geography that used to be occupied by Ron Kalafsky. The bottom line is that PPOL might end up with this faculty position as a lead economist and methodologist. This happened quite quickly and the candidate, Debra Strumski, will be on campus on Wednesday, April 4th. I have arranged for a meeting for her with the PPOL students at 10-11am in Colvard 1018A. PLEASE try to take some time to meet with her. She will be playing a *significant* role in the program and will be the closest thing we have a faculty position in the program (though she will still be housed in Geography). This is a wonderful opportunity for the program to pick up an economist trained with her Ph.D. from Cornell in Regional Science who has been a staff research scientist for the past few years at Harvard. I would appreciate the feedback from you all on how she would fit with our PPOL program. Please contact Laura (lmorgan@uncc.edu) if you can come to the student meeting with her.
There have been some changes to the up coming schedules. In the summer, Tiffany Manuel’s class will start 30 minutes earlier in the day to avoid conflict with Beth Bjerregaard’s class. For the fall schedule, I have attached the update details. Not all of these details are on the Banner registration system yet, but are being processed and will be available by the time registration opens.
I have a strange and unexpected opportunity regarding my own teaching for the Spring, 2008 (yes, we are already starting the planning for that schedule now). I will be teaching one class that term but I have several from which to choose. So, I am going to ask you what you would like. Let me know which of the following would be of most use to you. I will include that along with my own perspective on what would be of most use pedagogically. Just email directly and I will take this informal poll. The choices for next spring are: Categorical Data Analysis (3 hrs) LISREL/Structural Equation Modeling (1 hr)—perhaps better as a summer session workshop course Community Development (3 hrs) Poverty and Welfare (3 hrs) Urban Sociology (3 hrs) Institutional Theory and Analysis (3 hrs)
I have been receiving numerous inquiries about the PPOL program from prospective students. As part of my normal conversations with these individuals, I always direct them to our web page for program details and I mention that students have web pages there as well. Some of you, based on your research interests, may be emailed by these individuals for your perspective on the program. I hope you will help us attract the best and brightest as we continue to push the quality of the program (which has the added spillover effect of adding additional value to your degree through increased prestige over time). If you are getting buried in these contacts, please don’t ignore them! Just suggest someone else in the program that they might contact. No response is the worst response when marketing.
5.Deadline for ARNOVA Conference Proposal Submissions Extended ARNOVA has extended the deadline for submission of proposals for presentations—papers, panels and colloquies—for its 2007 Conference until midnight, April 10. The conference will be held from November 15-17, 2007, in Atlanta, Ga.
CLICK
HERE for the "2007 Call for Participation."
6. Graduate Research Conference Graduate Research Forum set for March 31 The Graduate and Professional Student Government will present the “Niner Research Across the Disciplines 7th Annual Graduate Research Forum” on Thursday, March 31, from 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. in the College of Education Building. Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Joan Lorden will deliver the keynote speech. All are welcome to attend; breakfast and lunch to be provided to all attendees. Click here to view an informational flyer.
April 13: Audrey Singer (Brookings Institution, Washington DC) Topic: Latinos in the New South 1:30 pm in McEniry 134
Please mark your calendars for the next Brown Bag Research Presentation on March 30 from 12:00 noon to 12:50. We will meet in the Political Science Conference Room. Beth Whitaker will present information from her research as a Fulbright Scholar in Kenya in 2005-2006. The title is: “Reluctant Partners: Promoting Democracy and Fighting Terrorism in Kenya.”
Dr. Hopcroft's brownbag (originally rescheduled for March 30) has been rescheduled again: Friday, April 20, 12:30-1:30, Conference Room Fretwell 480c Rosemary Hopcroft and Joseph Whitmeyer "A Choice Model of Status and Fertility"
John Gardella, MD “Eugenics and Nazi Medicine” Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2007 Time: 4:00 p.m. Location: Lucas Room in the Cone Center University of North Carolina at Charlotte Dr Gardella is the Vice President for Clinical Improvement for Novant Health, Southern Piedmont Region Eugenics - a social philosophy which advocates the improvement of human hereditary traits through various forms of intervention with the intent to create healthier, more intelligent people, save society's resources, and lessen human suffering.
11. Mecklenburg Health Disaster Planning Lecture
Learn about Mecklenburg County’s disease-outbreak responses April 4
In honor of National Public Health Week, UNC Charlotte’s Department of Health Behavior and Administration will host a special seminar titled, “Responding to Disease Outbreaks in Mecklenburg County,” on Wednesday, April 4, from 3:30-5:30 p.m. in the Health and Human Services Building, Room 161. The seminar is free and open to the public. The focus for National Public Health Week 2007 (April 2-8) is “Preparedness and Public Health Threats – Addressing the Unique Needs of Vulnerable Populations.” The keynote speaker, Dr. E. Winters Mabry, is director of Mecklenburg County Homeland Security and Health Director of the Mecklenburg County Health Department. Mabry will address this theme by presenting the Homeland Security Threat Management System and discussing how a disease outbreak – one resulting from either natural (e.g., pandemic flu) or man-made (e.g., bio-terrorism) origins – would be detected and managed in Mecklenburg County. Two challenges to respond to such widespread threats are informing and transporting vulnerable populations. UNC Charlotte’s Edwin Hauser, professor and director of Transportation Studies, and Alan Freitag, associate professor of Communications Studies with expertise in public relations and crisis management, will comment on Mabry’s presentation. A question and answer session will follow the presentations. Michael Thompson, assistant professor and coordinator of the UNC Charlotte Master of Science in Public Health Program, will moderate. For more information, contact Thompson at methomp1@uncc.edu, call ext. 7-8980, or visit www.health.uncc.edu.
I just wanted to remind you about the upcoming Chapter meeting since it is on a different day than normal. The April meeting will be on Thursday, April 5th (a week earlier than normal) from 11:45 to 1:00. The UNC-Charlotte MPA Student Organization has lined up this month’s speaker: Jeff Michael, Director of the Urban Institute. Jeff is a 2005 American Marshall Memorial Fellow and will be talking the role of the Urban Institute in the community and region as the outreach arm fulfilling the metropolitan mission of UNCC. The Institute is home to five departments: School Services, Community Research and Services, Economic Research and Analysis, Land Use and Environmental Planning, & Technical Services and Training. Jeff will be highlighting their current projects of these departments and their work with governmental units throughout the greater Charlotte MSA. LOCATION: Our meeting will be held at our regular meeting place: the Charlotte Fire Department's Administrative Division located at 228 East 9th Street in uptown Charlotte. TIME: 11:45am-1:00pm LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED SO PLEASE RSVP TO NICK SWARTZ (njswartz@uncc.edu) NO LATER THAN NOON ON TUESDAY, April 3rd. Lunch is free for ASPA members and $5.00 for guests. If you have items or announcements for the agenda, please send them to me (daswinde@uncc.edu).
Hope to see you next
week!
This program is sponsored jointly by International Studies and the World Affairs Council of Charlotte.
WHO: Dr. Ted Galen Carpenter WHAT: “A Grand Bargain with Iran” WHEN: Thursday, April 5 12:30-1:45 PM WHERE: Lucas Room, Cone Center
Dr. Ted Galen Carpenter is Vice President for Defenseand Foreign Policy Studies at the Cato Institute
• Author of seven books and the editor of ten books on international affairs; • Author of more than 350 articles and policy studies, with his work appearing in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Foreign Affairs; and • Received his Ph.D. in U.S. diplomatic history from the University of Texas.
14. Iraq Documentary with Director I had sent out an earlier email about the visit of Laura Poitras on April 10th to screen her film My Country My Country, nominated for an academy award as best documentary of last year. She will introduce the film and stay to answer questions. The film will be in CHHS 281 at 1:00. I have a link to IMDB’s description of the film which will also give you multiple reviews, if you click on external reviews. Thanks for passing this information on to your students and encouraging them to come to the film. Please pass the email on to colleagues you feel would be interested in the topic. Thanks. http://imdb.com/title/tt0810983/.
UNC Charlotte Criminal Justice Department Hosts Dr. Todd Clear Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice John Jay College of Criminal Justice City University of New York Presentations: Imprisonment and Community: Has mass incarceration grown to become yet another problem facing impoverished communities? Wednesday, April 11, 2007 9:30am to 11:30am Cone 112
-AND- Incarceration in Response to Crime: What’s the Impact? 2:00pm to 3:30pm 267 Government Center Downtown Charlotte (with tour of new courthouse building afterwards)
As mentioned in previous Updates, several PPOL students will be presenting conference papers at the upcoming Urban Affairs Association conference in Seattle. In preparation for that, the students will be presenting their papers to peers and faculty at a special PPOL Brown Bag on Wednesday, April 18th from 12-1:30 in the Sociology Conference Room (Fretwell). This is an excellent opportunity to see what research endeavors several of the students are doing and to provide useful developmental feedback for them in terms of their presentation style. This is an important part of doctoral training for research scientists and I strongly encourage all of you to join in for this professional/social event. I will be sending out the abstracts of the papers in a future reminder of this event.
17. SECOPA Proposals Due April 1
Southeast Conference
on Public Administration Proposals are now being invited for the 2007 SECoPA Conference, "Sound Innovations in Public Administration: Setting the Tone for the Future." If you have a panel idea, want to present a scholarly paper, or have professional experience which you want to share, we want to hear from you. For those academics interested in submitting a manuscript, please provide a 150-200 word abstract of your paper electronically by April 1, 2007 to the Program Chair. The full paper will be due by August 1, 2007. The paper will be turned over to the Track Chair who will be in touch regarding your panel. (Most paper presentations will be limited to between 10 and 15 minutes.) Practitioners who have professional experience to share do not have to present a formal paper. However, you must provide an indication of the content of your presentation - a summary of the presentation, a list of outcome goals, a discussion of the learning outcomes, an outline, or some other written documentation of what people will learn or be able to do when they leave the session. By April 1, 2007, you should send an email to the Program Chair, indicating your interest. If additional information is requested, it will be needed by August 1, 2007. An indication of the time needed for your presentation would be helpful. (Most presentations will be limited to between 10 and 15 minutes. However, a limited number may be given significantly longer if warranted.) Proposals for presentations will be given to the Track Chair who will be in touch regarding your session. Individuals who want to develop a panel are encouraged to contact the Program Chair by April 1, 2007, providing as much information about your panel as possible. If the panel is accepted, details will be discussed so that materials are available in a timely manner. Click here to see the Panel Tracks. Send all manuscripts to the SECoPA 2007 Program Chair: Dr. Diane Wilde at dwilde@tnstate.edu or telephone 615-963-7255, fax: 615-963-7245.
Check out http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/org/announce.html#new2007-03-19 to see the newly released public data sets available for researchers that are being housed at the ICPSR. As UNCC students, you have access to the data sets there.
If you have not seen recently, the students in the other doctoral programs that share the graduate lounge down the hall from the main PPOL office have begun decorating the room with pictures. PPOL students are invited to add to the collection. We will be providing new furniture for that room this summer too.
2007 ICPSR Summer Program The web site for the 2007 ICPSR Summer Program is now operational. You can use this path to find out more about the Program, courses, and also apply and register. Courses that have been of interest to political scientists over the years have included: Scaling and Dimensional Analysis (Bill Jacoby); Maximum Likelihood Estimation I (Charles Franklin); Game Theory (Dean Lacy); Advanced Game Theory (Cathy Hafer); Non-Linear/Adaptive Systems (Ken Kollman, Scot Page); Time Series (Genie Baker); Regression Analysis (Sandy Schneider, Brian Pollins); Designing Field Experiments (Don Green); Bayesian Methods (Jeff Gill); Rational Choice (Jim Johnson) New courses of potential interest include: Methodological Issues in Quantitative Research on Race and Ethnicity; Spatial Regression Analysis; There is also a revamped course on Advanced Topics using MLE (Chris Zorn and Brad Jones), which will cover panel data, survival models, and pooled time series cross sectional methods.
PPOL student Stephanie Southworth has had another paper accepted for publication (with Dr. Roz Mickelson) at SOCIAL FORCES. It will be published in December. I neglected to mention in the last Update that Gary Kunkle successfully completed the comprehensive examination process and is currently preparing his dissertation proposal. Congrats to Gary on clearing this hurdle! Finally, Bobbie Cox received the ASPA Rohr Scholarship for Public Administration and Law in Washington DC for her paper with Dr. Christensen last fall. This was a monetary award with an impressive plaque (and a star for her vitae). Also, she was recently traveling with her students at Gardner-Webb and was fortunate to be able to ring the bell to start the day’s training on the New York Stock Exchange. We have a picture of her doing this posted on the PPOL bulletin board (too big to send as an attachment). Congrats to Bobbie!
AIR/NCES Fellowships for Graduate Study
The Association for
Institutional Research (AIR), as part of its contract to improve the
quality of institutional research in U.S. postsecondary education
systems and hence, the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System
(IPEDS), announces a new national graduate fellowship program funded by
the National Center for Education statistics (NCES).
1.
Full time doctoral students:
maximum $30,000 over a three-year period ($10,000 per year). No
full-time awards will be made to first-time graduate students with no IR
work experience. 2. Fellowships will be awarded before June 1, 2007 and will begin Fall 2007 3. Proposals must be submitted electronically as an MSWord or PDF e-mail attachment to air@airweb2.org 4. For further information, please contact Sharon Lynn, the National Manager for Grants and Contracts at (850) 385-4155 All information available at: http://www.airweb.org/?page=1094
Visit Public Service Careers . Org Job Site: Gallop Polling (http://www.gallup.com/Careers/Search/) Here’s one of those positions Rosentraub mentioned when he was here in October:
Research Scientist
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