Anne-Marie Slaughter to Deliver Keynote at Humphrey School Commencement
Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of New America, is known in part for her passionate support for gender equity and supportive family policies in the workplace....
Realigning America’s Strategy Toward Korea
On April 13, Victor D. Cha, Professor at Georgetown University and former NSC Director for Asian Affairs, shared his thoughts on the North Korean nuclear issue in a special conversation titled “Realigning America’s Strategy toward Korea” at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs....
Johnson Center conference addresses cyberwarfare and artificial intelligence
Most companies are not very well prepared for the weaponizing of cyberspace by foreign governments. That was part of an assessment of the current state of cyberspace by Eric Schmidt, former chairman of Alphabet, Inc. and CEO of Google. Schmidt gave the remarks during his keynote address at the two-day annual conference of the Yale Johnson Center for the Study of American Diplomacy, which kicked off on April 6. This year’s conference, “Understanding Cyberwarfare and Artificial Intelligence,” drew both academics and practitioners....
New evening option for working professionals
GPS launches a new evening option for its Master of Advanced Studies in International Affairs career track in Security of the Asia-Pacific...
Humphrey School Professor Larry Jacobs Awarded McKnight Presidential Chair in Public Affairs
Professor Larry Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs, has been awarded the McKnight Presidential Chair in Public Affairs. The award is one of the University’s highest faculty honors, presented in recognition of scholarly achievements and in anticipation of future contributions to advance the University’s prominence....
IGCC receives coveted UC research grant
Tai Ming Cheung and Susan Shirk take a look at great power competition in the 21st Century with a new $3.7 million grant from the UC National Laboratory Fee Research Program...
Students trade up from a paperclip to a car
Based on the children’s game Bigger and Better, the One Paperclip Challenge took off on the Internet in 2006, when it was the subject of a TED talk by a Canadian blogger who managed over the course of a year to trade his way up for a house. It’s also part of School of Management Professor Zoë Chance’s Mastering Influence and Persuasion course, where it’s intended to help students improve their powers of persuasiveness, while also getting used to rejection....
GSPIA’s Center for Disaster Management and the Hesselbein Leadership Forum Launch Leadership During Crisis Podcast
At the intersection of disaster management and leadership studies, the Leadership During Crisis Podcast explores stories from leaders who have led through a dynamic crisis....
Judith Kelley Named Dean of Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy
DURHAM, N.C. -- Judith Kelley, an expert on human rights, democracy and international elections, has been named dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, President Vincent E. Price and Provost Sally Kornbluth announced Thursday. As the Terry Sanford Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Political Science at Duke, Kelley has also been the school’s senior associate dean since 2014. On July 1, she will succeed Kelly Brownell, who is stepping down after five years as dean to lead the Sanford School’s new World Food Policy Center. “Judith Kelley has distinguished herself as a scholar and a collaborative leader whose vision for education, discovery and service will continue the Sanford School’s momentum,” said Price. “Her detailed knowledge of the Sanford’s great strengths, and even greater opportunities for the future, will position Duke at the forefront of policy schools.”...
GSPIA Professor Receives Grant to Study Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells
The Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation and the Pitt Sustainability Task Force has awarded a grant to GSPIA Associate Professor Jeremy Weber to study the costs associated with abandoned oil and gas wells....
GSPIA Alumnus Randy Brockington Honored with the Lucchino Distinguished Service Award
Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald and County Manager William D. McKain CPA recently presented the Frank J. Lucchino Distinguished Service Award to GSPIA Alumnus Mr. Randolph (Randy) W. Brockington (MPA, '86), Executive Deputy Director of the Office of Administrative and Information Management Services in the Department of Human Services (DHS)....