July 1, 2008
- Last month Dean Karlan, MPP’97 returned to the Harris School to serve as the alumni speaker at the spring hooding ceremony. Back for the first time since his graduation, Karlan—a professor of economics at Yale University, founder and president of Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), and cofounder and president of StickK.com—took time before his talk to reflect on the unexpected experiences that altered his career path and where he has ended up.
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- As CEO of The Habitat Company and an advisor to Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign, Valerie Jarrett is among Chicago's professional elite. Last month Jarrett was a guest speaker for this year's Leadership in Chicago course, talking to students about her career and lessons learned.
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- As a graduating MPP student, Beth Munnich presented her honors thesis last month to faculty and students. With this discussion, Munnich drew to a close a year-long project which only a few students attempt.
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- The Harris School is pleased to announced that Fay Booker, data resource manager, and Cynthia Cook-Conley, faculty assistant, and have been nominated for the Marlene F. Richman Award for Excellence and Dedication in Service to Students.
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- Of the 80,000 to 100,000 unaccompanied children that come to the United States each year, only a small number are detained. But according to Maria Woltjen, director of the Immigrant Children's Advocacy Project at the University of Chicago, the numbers are rising from 8,000 in 2006 to an expected 10,000 next year. At last week's spring Dean's International Council meeting, Woltjen was one of three experts on immigrant and refugee children who discussed the enormous challenges these children face in the United States-both personally and with the immigration court system.
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- A new U.S. administration must bring change to the war in Iraq. This was the conclusion of a panel of experts examining challenges that will face a new president during the Harris School's spring 2008 Dean's International Council meeting held in Chicago, May 5-7.
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- Harris School students gathered at a downtown bar and grille last week for food, drinks, and an alumni panel discussion-organized by the student group Women in Public Policy-on working in the public policy arena.
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- Speaking at a luncheon with members of the Harris School community, His Royal Highness Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein, Jordanian ambassador to the United States and non-resident ambassador to Mexico, offered insight into the Arab-Israeli conflict and answered audience questions on a range of topics affecting the Middle East.
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- During this year's March spring break, Harris School students traveled to Israel as part of a mini-course with Assistant Professor Ofer Malamud and Associate Dean for Administration Esty Gur.
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- Amar Bakshi, a reporter for the Washington Post and Newsweek, spoke to Harris School students on March 5 about his experience traveling around the world for his blog, "How the World Sees America."
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- Sandeep Ahuja, MPP'06 and Dr. Shelly Batra spent this month in Chicago teaching a mini-course to Harris School students and spreading the word about their battle against tuberculosis in India.
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- In the third discussion of a four-part panel series, leaders at Chicago nonprofits talked about their career paths and experiences in the field of public advocacy.
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- During a visit to the Harris School this week, Ronald Kok, president and founder of the OTB Group, discussed his career as an inventor and environmentalist and his new venture to provide glasses to children in third world countries.
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- Senior Lecturer and alumnus Charles Wheelan, PhD'98 and his students from this year's International Policy Practicum spoke last week about their travels to Jordan and Israel in December and the class's policy recommendations for the region.
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- On January 30th, American Medical Association (AMA) President Ronald M. Davis, AM'81, MD'83, was back at his "old stomping grounds" in the University of Chicago Medical Center's lecture auditorium laying out the AMA's plan to reform the health care system and improve American's health.
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- On Wednesday, January 15, dozens of students gathered for the first in a series of four panel discussions on "Real World Perspectives for Policy Students."
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