Awards
Congratulations to David Meltzer,
associate faculty member, who received funding from the
Centers for Disease Control to start a Chicago Center
of Excellence in Health Promotion Economics. The grant
will provide $3 million over three years to support a
collaboration between the University of Chicago and the
University of Illinois at Chicago to advance the field
of health promotion through training and research in
economic analysis. For more information, contact Carolyn
Rey, Director of Program Development, at crey@uchicago.edu.
In June, the Cultural Policy
Center was awarded a $340,000 grant from the
Wallace Foundation for a national study of effective
practices used by cultural organizations to build participation.
The Center was also awarded $128,634 from the Joyce
Foundation for a study of minority participation in
the arts, led by Harris School Professors Robert
J. LaLonde and Colm O’Muircheartaigh and
Cultural Policy Center Executive Director D.
Carroll Joynes.
Professor Howard Margolis has
signed a contract with Routledge for a book collecting
his work on the NSNX (“neither selfish nor exploited”)
model of social choice, and reporting the application
of these ideas to data from experiments on choice under
his current NSF-sponsored project.
Don L. Coursey, the
Ameritech Professor, and Professor Robert J.
LaLonde were named the 2003_2004 Harris School
Teachers of the Year, Coursey for a core course and LaLonde
for a noncore course. This is the sixth consecutive year
that Coursey has won this award.
Women in Public Policy (WIPP)
announced the 2004 awardees for its Conference Fund. Anne
Dude (PhD student) will present her research
on the interaction between domestic violence and the
likelihood of engaging in risky sexual behaviors at the
American Public Health Association’s “Women’s
Caucus Session on Sexually Transmitted Diseases.” Shakina
Smallwood (MPP’05) will attend “Color
of Violence III: Stopping the War on Women of Color” to
work with community leaders from around the world on
community-based accountability standards for violence
against women.
Congratulations to Carolyn J.
Heinrich (AM’91, PhD’95), who
recently received APPAM’s David N. Kershaw Award,
which honors those under the age of forty who have
made a distinguished contribution to the field of public
policy analysis and management. She received the award
for research that advances the empirical study of public
management and performance evaluation, particularly
as applied to social welfare and labor market policies.
Heinrich is Associate Professor at the LaFollette School
of Public Affairs and Associate Director of Research
and Training in the Institute for Research on Poverty
at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Welcome to five new faculty members!
Christopher Berry ,
Assistant Professor, focuses on the political economy
of American local government, education policy, and economic
development. (See the article on his research in
this issue.)
Jeffrey Grogger , Professor,
specializes in labor economics, applied microeconomics,
applied econometrics, and economics of crime. His recent
work has examined the effects of welfare reform and racial
profiling.
Ofer Malamud , Assistant
Professor, conducts research primarily in the fields
of labor economics and economics of education. In recent
work, he has examined the tradeoff between early specialization
and the gains from delaying the choice of a major field
of study in university.
Bruce D. Meyer , the
McCormick Tribune Professor, studies tax policy, welfare
policy, unemployment insurance, workers’ compensation,
minority entrepreneurship, the health care safety net,
and the determinants of work hours choices. In addition,
Meyer fills the Harris School’s faculty position
for the McCormick Tribune Program for Urban and Community
Leadership. (See the articles on his research and
the leadership program in this issue.)
Marcos Rangel , Assistant
Professor, researches topics on development economics,
population economics, and applied econometrics. His projects
also assess how the effects of policy interventions are
shaped by the behavioral response of individual household
members.
In addition, we’ve welcomed several
new lecturers, visiting faculty members, and research
affiliates. Michael McPherson (President,
Spencer Foundation), Donald Stewart (formerly
of the Chicago Community Trust), Daniel Sullivan,
PhD (Senior Economist and Vice-President, Federal Reserve
Bank of Chicago), Zalman Usiskin, PhD
(Professor and Director of the University of Chicago
School Mathematics Project), Charles Wheelan (PhD’98)
(former Director of Policy and Communications, Chicago
Metropolis 2020), and Paula R. Worthington,
PhD (formerly at Northwestern University).
And we would like to welcome our first
Postdoctoral Scholars: Danielle Crosby (Center
for Human Potential and Public Policy), Ruby
Mendenhall (AM’94) (Center for Human Potential
and Public Policy), and Dorian Warren (
Harris School).
Our staff is expanding too! Since the
last issue, we’ve been joined by Raja Kamal (Associate
Dean for Resource Development), Jason Gorczyca (Center
for Policy Practice), Michael Washburn (
Cultural Policy Center), and Stefanie White (
Cultural Policy Center). In addition, the staff for Associate
Professor C. Cybele Raver’s Chicago School Readiness
Project now includes Elysia Aufmuth, Darlene
Jones-Lewis, Molly
Metzger, Latriese Sardin-Adjei,
and Ta-Tanisha Young.
Students
Twenty Latin-American Harris
School students participated in a round table
on the first presidential debate on September 30, 2004,
which was broadcast by Univision, the largest Spanish-speaking
media network in the US. For more information or to
watch the segment, visit harrisschool.uchicago.edu.
The Public Policy Student Association (PPSA)
hosted an election party on November 2 to watch the results;
more than one hundred attended. Further information on
PPSA’s activities, objectives, and responsibilities
can be found at harrisschool.uchicago.edu/ppsa/.
Women in Public Policy (WIPP)
is focusing its 2004–05 events on the theme “Examining
the Gender Gap.” For more information visit harrisschool.uchicago.edu/wipp/.
Center Events
On May 26, the Center for Policy
Practice (CPP) hosted “Balancing Diversity
and Unity: The Role of the EU and the UN in World Diplomacy.” Moderated
by Jerome McDonnell of WBEZ’s Worldview,
the panel consisted of Laurent Fabius, Former Prime
Minister of France and visiting faculty member at the
Harris School; Wolfgang Ischinger,German Ambassador
to the United States; and David Malone, President of
the International Peace Academy. Much of the discussion
focused on the Iraq War and the effect of the United
States’ unilateral foreign policy on its relationship
with both the EU and the UN.
CPP’s annual
mentor dinner was held on October 18. Former Illinois
Governor James R. Thompson provided the keynote address,
encouraging Harris School students to become public servants.
He also discussed his work in the 9-11 Commission.
Former US Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development Henry Cisneros gave a public address entitled “Latinos
in the US Political Landscape.” The event was cosponsored
by CPP and the University’s Center
for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture.
The first of three health and security
policy briefings cosponsored by CPP and
the University’s Great Lakes Regional Center for
Excellence was held on November 10. The speakers were
Ray Zilinskas, Director of the Chemical and Biological
Weapons Nonproliferation Program at the Monterey Institute
of International Studies and Barry Kellman, Codirector,
International Criminal Justice and Weapons Control Center,
DePaul University College of Law.
On December 2 and 3, the Cultural
Policy Center hosted a two-day conference
(“The Future of Public Television”) to
examine the challenges faced by public broadcasting.
Many of the sessions were moderated by noted Chicago
journalist John Callaway and included discussions on
PBS’s funding structure, ongoing mission, and
programming competition. Keynotes were given by Pat
Mitchell, President of PBS, and Ken Auletta, author
and media columnist for the New Yorker.
Alumni Events
On April 26, the Office of Alumni Relations
hosted a Harris Happy Hour at Govnor’s Pub in downtown
Chicago. Organized by Andrew Joseph (MPP’99), the
event drew more than thirty alumni.
During the University’s Alumni
Weekend 2004, the Harris School hosted two UnCommon Core
lectures: Don L. Coursey, the Ameritech Professor, on “Our
Environmental Values” and University alumnus and
former mentor, Bradley H. Patterson, Jr. (AB’42,
AM’43), on the organization and power of the White
House staff in light of the November election. Patterson’s
public service career spans thirty-two years, including
fourteen as a member of the White House staffs for Presidents
Eisenhower, Nixon, and Ford.
At the June 11 Hooding Ceremony, the
Office of Alumni Relations welcomed 123 new alumni with
graduation gifts.
On July 22, more than fifty Harris School
alumni gathered with Kennedy School alumni at the Art
Institute of Chicago for Seurat and the Making of “La
Grande Jatte” and at Bennigan’s for conversation.
The Office of Alumni Relations hosted
a reception on October 28 at the fall research conference
of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
(APPAM). Forty alumni and their families,
faculty, former faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and Harris School friends
(including those from NORC) attended.
This fall, Don L. Coursey, the Ameritech
Professor, was on the road with the University Alumni
Association’s Harper Lecture Series. He spoke on “Economic
Value, the Value of Economists and the
Meaning of Life” to enthusiastic University and Harris School alumni
in Dallas (October 23), Houston (October 24), and Los Angeles (November
6). Look for him in Tampa in February.
New
Programs
The Harris School has inaugurated a new Custom
Training Program that enables organizations
to partner with the Harris School to create customized,
non-degree training programs for its employees on a
wide variety of topics. On November 1, the first session
was taught by Professor Colm O’Muircheartaigh on “Understanding
and Using Statistics” for employees of the Illinois
Department of Public Aid. Ian Doughty (MPP’01)
and Barry S. Maram (AM’85) helped
facilitate the program. For more information, contact
Susan Popa at 773-702-2028 or spopa@uchicago.edu.
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