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Student News

Recent Successfully Defended Dissertations:
(To retrieve details about these dissertations, see the "Dissertation Abstracts International" database - accessible from ALADIN.)

• Carolyn Alkire
  "Supplemental Funding for National Land Stewardship."
  Chair: Joseph J. Cordes.
• Alessandro Arbore
  "Unbundling Policies and Incumbent's Investments in Local Telecommunications."
  Chair: Gerald Brock.
• Amarnath Bhat
  "Measuring the Economic Impact of Diabetes Research."
  Chair: Joseph J. Cordes.
• Andrew Donlan
  "The Independent Relationship between Type of High School Attended and Student Behavior in School."
  Chair: Jeffrey Henig.
• Amy Hall
  "Juvenile Waiver to Criminal Court: Experiences and Perceptions of Maryland Youths."
  Chair: Jeffrey Henig.
• Mita Marra
  "Dynamics of Organizational Knowledge Creation. Implications of Evaluation Use as a Tool for Public Management. The Case of the World Bank."
  Chair: Kathryn E. Newcomer.
• Scott Palmer
  "A Study of Toxics Use Reductions by Manufacturers from Two Sectors in Massachusetts (Between 1991 and 1998)."
  Chair: Arun Malik.
• Lynette Rawlings
  "The Determinants of Cooperation among Local Government in Metropolitan Areas."
  Chair: Hal Wolman.
• Travis Wagner
  "How Clean is Clean? A Comparative Analysis of EPA's Reliance on Risk Assessment in its Contaminated Site Remediation Programs."
  Chair: Arun Malik.
• Joseph Webster
  "Military Spending in Developing Countries: Changing Contexts, Burdens, Economies and Data Sets."
  Chair: James Lebovic.

Other Student News (updated December 2003):

• Susanne Beechey (Ph.D., Gender & Social Policy) presented: "The Gender Gap in Pension Coverage: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation." Paper prepared for the APPAM Annual Research Conference, Washington, DC, November 2003. (authors: Catherine Hill and Susanne Beechey).
• Heath Brown (Ph.D. Candidate, Education Policy) and Natalie Lacireno-Paquet (Ph.D. Candidate, Gender & Social Policy) presented a poster: "Scale of Operations and Locus of Control in Market- vs. Mission-Oriented Charter Schools," prepared for the APPAM Annual Research Conference, Washington, DC, November 2003. (authors: Heath Brown, Jeffrey Henig, Natalie Lacireno-Paquet, and Thomas Holyoke).
• Lawrence Cooper (Ph.D. Candidate, National Security Policy) published: "The Strategy of Responsive Space," Astropolitics, vol 1(3), in press; "Encouraging Space Exploration Through a New Application of Space Property Rights," Space Policy, vol. 19(2), pp. 111 – 118; and "The Strategy of Responsive Space: Assured Access to Space Revisited," presented to the AIAA Responsive Space Conference and published in the proceedings, 1-3 April 2003.
• Nancy Gardner (Ph.D. Candidate, Urban Policy) presented: "The Impact of Family Homeownership on Children’s Educational Attainment and Earnings During Early Adulthood." Paper prepared for the APPAM Annual Research Conference, Washington, DC, November 2003. (authors: George Galster, Nancy Gardner, Marvin Mandell, Dave Marcotte, and Hal Wolman).
• Megan McHugh (Ph.D., Health Policy) presented: "Progress toward Improving Public Health Preparedness: A Perspective from 12 Communities." Paper prepared for the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 2003. (authors: Megan McHugh, Laurie Felland, and Andrea Staiti).
• Nancy Potok (Ph.D., Public Administration) was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA). Nancy is the Principal Associate Director of the U.S. Census Bureau on executive loan to the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) of the University of Chicago.
• Ashley Simons-Rudolph (Ph.D., Gender & Social Policy) published: "Who’s Calling the Shots? Decision-Makers and the adoption of effective school-based substance use prevention curricula." Journal of Drug Education, in press. (authors: C. Ringwalt, S. Ennett, A. Vincus, L.A. Rohrbach, and A. Simons-Rudolph.)
• Cynthia Vinson (Ph.D., Health Policy) presented: "Delivering the gold standard of evidence-based practice," at the Society for Public Health Education Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 2003. (authors: J. Kerner, C. Vinson, L. Johnson.) Cynthia also presented: "Research-tested Intervention Programs (RTIPS): Moving science into programs for people," at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 2003. (authors: L. Cynkin, C. Vinson, J. Kerner.).

To post your news, contact Andrea Sarzynski (apsarzyn@gwu.edu).