In Hubert Humphrey's Name, International Fellows Program Celebrates 40 Years of Impact
The legacy of Hubert H. Humphrey is felt not only in the halls of the School that bears his name on the University of Minnesota campus; it reaches around the world through an international fellowship program that has brought thousands of mid-career professionals from developing nations to the United States for a year of study, professional experience, and cultural exchange....
Humphrey School Expert Examines Why China's Wind Sector is Under-Performing
Assistant Professor Gabriel Chan of the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs examines the paradox of China's wind power investment....
Humphrey School Ranks Among Top 10 Public Affairs Graduate Programs
The Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota ranked ninth in the latest annual survey of graduate and professional schools by US News & World Report. The School’s nonprofit management program was second in the nation, and its international/global program—a new specialty ranking added this year—placed tenth....
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....