Faculty & Staff
Welcome to Hannah Levine (Development Coordinator), who joined the staff in December.

Awards & Recognition
Associate Professor C. Cybele Raver was recently appointed a member of the Psychosocial Development, Risk, and Prevention Study Section of the National Institute of Health’s Center for Scientific Review.

Laurence Chalip (AM’83, PhD’88) recently received the 2005 Dr. Earle F. Zeigler Award from the North American Society for Sport Management (NASSM). Professor of Kinesiology & Health Education and Coordinator of the Sport Management Program at the University of Texas at Austin, Chalip is being recognized for his research on sports policy and his service to international sports organizations.

Women in Public Policy (WIPP) has announced two more 2004 Conference Fund awardees: Lindsey Leininger (PhD student) will be presenting on insurance status and health care utilization of low-income children at Georgetown University’s “Youth and Public Policy” student conference. Michelle Pannor (PhD student) will be presenting a paper on poverty-related risks and child behavior problems at the 2005 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting.

Nandu Machiraju (MPP’06) recently received the Harold W. Rosenthal Fellowship, annually awarded to qualified students pursuing a career in international relations. As a 2005 fellow, Machiraju will spend the summer in Washington, D.C., working in the Office of the United States Trade Representative on the development and coordination of US trade policy.

Events
Since the last issue of HarrisView, the Center for Policy Practice (CPP) has been busy:

• “Clash of Globalizations? The Politics of International Labor Rights”— a talk by Thomas Greven, Assistant Professor, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
• “National Security in the Age of Terror”—a public address by former US Senator Gary Hart (a cosponsored event)
• Student lunch discussions with Harris School Visiting Committee members, including John R. Schmidt, a partner with Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw; Corinne Wood, former Lieutenant Governor of Illinois; and MarySue Barrett, President of the Metropolitan Planning Council
• Christina Hoff Sommers of the American Enterprise Institute gave a public address on her book, The War against Boys
• “The Prospects for Transatlantic Relations at the Beginning of the President’s Second Term”—a public address by the British Ambassador to the United States, Sir David Manning (a cosponsored event)
• “The Last Wilderness: Why the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Matters”—a public event with talks by acclaimed Arctic photographer Subhankar Banerjee; noted ornithologist, bird illustrator, and author David Allen Sibley; and the Annie Clark Tanner Fellow in Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah, Terry Tempest Williams (a cosponsored event)

For more information on any of these events and others, visit the CPP online at harrisschool.uchicago.edu/centers/cpp.

In May, the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy is hosting the second of its three-part conference series on child education, health, and welfare: “Developmental, Economic, and Policy Perspectives on Meeting the Needs of ‘Hard to Serve’ Families.” (See the article on this series in this issue.)

Newly admitted students recently visited the Harris School for the PhD Visit Day and On the MaPP. They met with staff, talked to current students, sat in on lectures by faculty, and listened to an alumni panel on careers in public policy. The Admissions Office notes that they received a total of 611 applications (including 143 PhD) and are expecting an entering class of 115–120 master’s students and 5–8 PhD students.

A complete transcript of the Cultural Policy Center’s 2004 Arts and Humanities in Public Life Conference: “The Future of Public Television” is now available online.Visit culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/PBS for more information.

In March, the Cultural Policy Center and the DuSable Museum of African American History hosted “Urban Humanities,” a town-hall discussion on community-university connections. The capacity audience included representatives from the University of Chicago, the Department of Cultural Affairs, and leaders of several south-side community arts and service organizations.

The Cultural Policy Workshop Series session this spring will include discussions on the role of the arts in regional development, organization and change in TV broadcasting, and a case study of the impact of cultural activity on its community. For more information, visit the Center online at culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu.

The Office of Alumni Affairs has been busy with lots of events, gathering alumni together from Chicago to Washington, D.C., to Mexico City and everywhere in between. (See the column by Nancy Goldstucker, Office of Alumni Relations, in this issue.)

A group of policy students and faculty members from Tel Aviv University (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Paris, France) recently visited the Harris School as part of an international academic exchange program. The trip focused on education policy and included talks by both Israeli and Harris School faculty members, breakfast with students concentrating on education policy, and site visits to a Chicago public school and the Namaste Charter School, which was cofounded by Allison Slade (MPP’02). (See profile of Allison Slade in this issue.)

Development News
Development efforts have become increasingly international with the new Dean’s International Council (DIC). A group of men and women from all over the country and the world, the members have a range of backgrounds and experience and will provide the Dean with input from their unique perspectives. Their first meeting will be in Chicago in May.

Inaugurating a new invitation-only luncheon series for DIC and Visiting Committee members, Professor Jeffery Grogger led a discussion on American Welfare Reform during the past decade. Additional faculty members speaking this spring include Assistant Professor Christopher Berry on taxation by local government and Professor and Deputy Dean Charles Glaser on confronting weapons proliferation.

In June, King Abdullah II of Jordan will give a foreign policy address to the Harris School community, launching a newly established lectureship bearing his name—the King Abdullah II Annual Leadership Lecture.

New & Improved
The Harris School recently unveiled our redesigned and restructured Web site. There is something for everyone and we’re constantly making further improvements. Check us out at harrisschool.uchicago.edu.

The Harris School is pleased to announce a partnership with the Universidad de Chile. One component of the collaboration is a non-degree certificate program for the Chilean students, consisting of several seminars and completion of a term paper. The seminars—short courses on various policy topics determined in collaboration with Universidad de Chile faculty—will be taught by Harris School faculty mostly via teleconference although some will be taught in Chile. In addition, the Harris School and Universidad de Chile have agreed to offer a joint degree program by which students who successfully complete part of the program in one university will have an opportunity to gain a degree from the partner institution in addition to the degree from their home institution. Qualifying Chilean students in the Magister en Politicas Publicas (MPP) program can complete their second year at the Harris School and receive a Harris AM degree. Qualifying Harris students can complete their second year through the Chilean MPP program and receive two MPP degrees at graduation. Students will also have an opportunity to participate in group internships organized by the partner institution.

The Office of Career Services has overhauled their student resume database. Accessible online, the new database allows users to target searches by area of interest, location, work experience, or degree; to download and save resumes; and to e-mail candidates. Check it out at harrisschool.uchicago.edu/bestminds.

If you visit the Harris School, you’ll notice something has changed—signage! Installed in March at both the front and rear entrances, the two new signs are a clear marker of the Harris School’s presence in the 1155 building.

Students
In February, Women in Public Policy (WIPP) hosted the wildly successful second annual Harris School Follies, a sketch comedy and talent show featuring students, staff, and faculty that is the social highlight of the year. Proceeds go to the WIPP Conference Fund, and the 2005 awardees will be announced this spring.

In April, the Public Policy Students Association (PPSA) hosted the Sixth Annual Student Auction, the proceeds of which go to the Amy Marie Bosman Memorial Fellowship, awarded to a student dedicated to enhancing social justice, political and economic conditions, and/or environmental resources in the local or global community.

Several students have been published—Christian Deitch (MPP’05) had an article about democracy in the Kyrgyz Republic of Central Asia included in the Jan–Feb 2005 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Sheri Frost (MPP’06) authored a report for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) on the high rate of teacher turnover in inner-city Chicago.

Sheri Frost also put together a book drive to donate 250 books for young children to the Ounce of Prevention Fund’s Educare Center, in honor of Irving Harris. The books will be presented to the children and parents at the Educare Center’s quarterly literacy event this spring.