Jonathan B. Wiener, Perkins Professor of Law and Professor of Environmental Policy and Public Policy Studies at Duke University, was elected the next president of the international Society for Risk Analysis (SRA).
News - Archive 2006
December 4, 2006
Professor of the Practice Tony Brown to Take "Entrepreneurial Learning" Methods to Robertson Scholars Program at UNC and Duke After 12 years, Brown will leave "best job at Duke" for opportunity to encourage great students to act on their biggest ideas. [article]
November 21, 2006
Duke senior Jimmy Soni earns Mitchell Scholarship for year of graduate study in Ireland. [article]
November 20, 2006
Saving energy In an effort to help local families reduce home energy use, students in public policy professor Tony Brown’s community leadership course delivered packages of energy-saving light bulbs to the Durham County Department of Social Services for free distribution. [article]
November 20, 2006
Master’s students travel to New Orleans to see post-Katrina policy issues firsthand. Their visits forges connections for spring policy consulting projects that will help the Big Easy rebuild.
November 16, 2006
Through ActionAid, second-year master’s students Dave Cohen and Kenzie Strong worked on capacity building projects in Kapchorwa, Uganda with local community-based organizations, including the Benet Lobby Group. Cohen’s and Strong’s Web site -- full of beautiful photographs of the region, the people and their work -- chronicles their experiences during the summer of 2006.
November 8, 2006
Charles Sanders, chairman of the Sanford Institute Board of Visitors, earns state's highest civilian honor -- the North Carolina Award -- for contributions to science.
November 7, 2006
There is a trend among behavioral scientists to view ever more complex “attitudes” and/or “systems of belief” as in some sense genetically determined, or heritable. Current research by Assistant Professor of Public Policy Evan Charney refutes the idea that political orientations could be genetically transmitted. Read the paper.
October 19, 2006
Sen. Thad Cochran delivers 2006 Sanford Lecture
October 16, 2006
Olga Corrales, MPP ’92, has worked at the World Bank
October 9, 2006
North Korea’s actions warrant a swift, firm response from the U.N. Security Council, says public policy professor Bruce Jentleson. [article]
September 30, 2006
MPP Candidate Elizabeth Sasser’s summer internship in China gave her a chance to see first-hand how education policies affect rural and migrant families.
September 29, 2006
First Duke senior Jimmy Soni read the books about the dramatic last years of the Soviet Union and its collapse. Then, thanks to an undergraduate research opportunity with Bruce Jentleson, got to meet the man behind the books.
September 5, 2006
New orientation program connect students with community, avoids “tunnel vision.”
August 28, 2006
The wife of late Duke president, North Carolina governor and U.S. senator Terry Sanford was an avid philanthropist and arts patron. [article]
August 10, 2006
Thwarted bomb plot in London reflects strong international cooperation against terrorism, but security gaps still exist that can be exploited by terrorists, says David Schanzer, director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security. [article]
July 19, 2006
Mark Pike wanted to take a cross-country road trip, but with gas prices at an all-time high and policymakers bemoaning America’s addiction to oil, Pike’s nostalgic vision collided head on with his sense of right and wrong. [article]
June 29, 2006
In light of the surgeon general's recent report on secondhand smoke, it's clear that the smokers aren't the only ones who bear the cost of their habit, says assistant professor of public policy studies a health policy professor Donald Taylor. [article]
June 27, 2006
Foundations need to become “relentlessly and thoroughly transparent” in their operations if they are to avoid government regulation, says Joel Fleishman, professor of public policy and law and the founding director of the Sanford Institute of Public Policy. [article]
May 12, 2006
Plans for transforming the Terry Sanford Institute for Public Policy into Duke’s 10th school received conditional approval Thursday from the Academic Council. [article]