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Current Update.PPOL Update April 17, 2006:
PPOL Students:
Here's the latest on PPOL-related
events. As some of you know, the Urban Affairs Association meeting begins
in Montreal Wednesday evening. Several PPOL students and faculty are
attending, including me. I will be out of the office for this conference
and then will be in only very briefly throughout next week. However, I
will do my best to stay caught up on email and if anything develops
needing immediate attention, please contact Laura and she will know how to
reach me.
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Tomorrow (Tuesday, April 18) will be the
final PPOL Brown Bag event of the semester. Barbara John will be
presenting her paper co-authored with Thomas Ludden entitled “The
Effect of Charlotte's Changing Public School System on Housing Values”
that they will be delivering later this week at the Urban Affairs
Association conference in Montreal. The session will be in the Political
Science Conference Room (Fretwell 445C) srtarting at noon.
After the presentation, the PPOL
students will be left to elect new officers to the PPOL student
organization and the GPSG body. I cannot stress enough the
under-appreciated value of having PPOL students on the GPSG committee.
Several of the current officers (who have serve PPOL very well this year!)
will be at the meeting and can answer questions about the duties of these
positions. So please come join in the brown bag presentation and stay for
the elections.
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We have some more good news to share
with all the PPOL students. Last week, Olga completed her comprehensive
examination in the urban policy field and has become our 6th student to
advance to ABD status, hot on the heels of Yoshiko. Please join me in
congratulating Olga on passing this milestone. We have three more comps
coming up, so you can see that the dam is busting as you all start heading
into the home stretch.
And I am very excited to announce that
the first PPOL dissertation defense is coming up. Here is the official
public announcement:
Ms. Ashley Dunham, a Ph.D. candidate in
Public Policy,will defend her dissertation on May 3, at 2:00 pm in room
480-C, Fretwell Building. Her dissertation, “Primary Care and Mental
Health: Does the Financing and Organization of Health Care Affect
Treatment of Depression?” is under the direction of Dr. William Brandon.
All are invited.
The way this will work is that the
defense itself is open to the public (a university rule). However, at one
point the dissertation committee will excuse the public and candidate in
order to deliberate. But if you are interested, you are welcome to attend
the first portion. Regardless, please wish Ashley good luck.
And lastly, Ashley has accepted a
post-doctoral position at Chapel Hill. This is an outstanding start for
Ashley and the for the PPOL program as we begin churning out graduates.
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Some more good news: PPOL has an
official home. As many of you know, our current space in Colvard was
meant to be a temporary arrangement pending the work going on over in
McEniry. I received official word last week that we will be able to keep
our current space in Colvard after all. This is fantastic news since
space is such a premium on campus. There were even rumors of moving PPOL
to the new Uptown Center! So I am very pleased that we will get to stay
where are. The Org Science and Psuchology PhD program directors and I are
also working together to do what we can to help foster an even greater
sense of doctoral community since all three programs will be proximate to
one antoher and sharing Laura's services as administrative assistant.
This is a great outcome for PPOL (and means I can finally move over to
Colvard in the next month or so). One of the offices (the one in the
outer hall) will serve as a student lounge and we will make some changes
to that room now that we know we are staying.
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For those of you that have been over to
the PPOL suite in Colvard recently, you might have noticed some new
equipment. Dean Gutierrez was generous to PPOL this year and afforded us
some extra funds to purchase a couple of much-needed computers. I hope to
be able to do the same each year so we keep a regular rotation of
computers available for PPOL students on assistantship.
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The new Center for Visualization will be
celebrating its grand opening here on campus in a couple of weeks.
Students are invited to attend any and all the special symposium they are
hosting as a kick-off event. Here's the blurb they sent out:
Symposium on the Future of
Visualization
On May 1 and 2, 2006, the Charlotte Visualization Center
will host the Symposium on the Future of Visualization. This will be an
event of national importance with leading visionaries in the field of
visualization presenting their views on the next big things in research
and development in this burgeoning field. This is a unique opportunity to
hear all these leaders speak at the same event and to have them address
this topic. In addition, attendees will see demonstrations of the latest
visualization tools, tour the Charlotte Visualization Center, see initial
work from our new DHS Regional Visualization and Analytics Center, and
meet colleagues from business, government, and
academia.
To find out more and to register for the symposium, please go to www.viscenter.uncc.edu/symposium06.htm, or call Remonia Hunter at (704)687-8600. ----------------------------------------------------------- 6--SECOPA
Paper Awards Deadline
7--Post-doctoral Positions
Postdoctoral position: Global Systems
Research New England Complex Systems Institute Cambridge, MA Date Posted: Dec. 19th, 2005
Postdoctoral Position
Population Research Institute Penn State University University Park, PA Date Posted: Nov. 29th, 2005
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I gathered several more job
opportunities illustrative of the range of jobs for which graduates of the
PPOL program would be very well trained to undertake. These are only
meant for illustration.
PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA,
San Francisco
Position: Research Fellow
The Public Policy Institute of
California (PPIC) is a
private, nonprofit research organization conducting policy-related, nonpartisan research with an active outreach program. PPIC offers a strong interdisciplinary research environment in which Fellows concentrate on public policy issues affecting California while continuing to pursue an independent research agenda.
PPIC currently has positions available
for
researchers with a high level of expertise in one of the following areas: education, immigration, political participation, and social policy. Applicants should hold a Ph.D. in Economics, Political Science, Public Policy, Sociology, Urban Planning, or a closely related discipline. Preference will be given to candidates with a track record of policy- related research. Experienced researchers with a demonstrated ability to obtain external research funding are strongly encouraged to apply.
The positions are located in San
Francisco.
Applications will be considered as they are received and the positions will remain open until they are filled.
For detailed position descriptions and
specific
application instructions, visit http://www.ppic.org/main/opportunities.asp. M/F/D/V – EOE/AA.
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THE CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE (CRS) is accepting applications for a policy analyst to provide objective, nonpartisan research, analysis and consultation to the U.S. Congress. The incumbent will focus on congressional procedures and organization. Individuals with knowledge of House and Senate committee and floor procedures and congressional organization are encouraged to apply. This position is being offered at the GS-14 level ($91,407 - $118,828); promotion potential is to the GS-15 level ($107,521-$139,774).
Duties include preparing analytical
studies for
Congress; providing expert public policy analysis and consultation and assistance to congressional committees, Members, and staff; analyzing, appraising, and evaluating legislative proposals; and participating in or leading multidisciplinary team research projects and seminars.
Interested applicants must either apply
online
(preferred) via the CRS Employment <http://www.loc.gov/crsinfo> Opportunities home page (http://www.loc.gov/crsinfo) or call 202/707-5627 to request an applicant job kit. Please refer to vacancy #060082 in all correspondence. Applications must be received by April 27, 2006. CRS is the public policy research arm of the U.S. Congress and is fully committed to workforce diversity.
Dr. David
Swindell, Assoc. Professor & Director
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