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Tom Barth – questions for PA Times from COVID-19
Tom Barth published an essay in the PA Times, “Key Public Admiistration Questions from COID-19” aspatimes.org/key-public-administration-questions-from-covid-19/
J. Piatak’s article wins Mary Parker Follett Award
Jaclyn Piatak’s co-authored article, “Informal Accountability in Children’s Service Networks: The Role of Frontline Workers,” was selected by the journal Awards Committee to win the Mary Parker Follett Award for best theory-informed research article in 2019, Volume 43, of Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance.
Dr. Beth Whitaker Article
Beth Whitaker co-authored with Roos van der Haer and Christopher Faulkner and entitled “Rebel Funding and Child Soldiers: Exploring the Relationship between Natural Resources and Forcible Recruitment” has been accepted for publication in the European Journal of International Relations.
Dr. Mel Atkinson presentation
Mel Atkinson presented “Women at War: Debating Defense in the U.S. House of Representatives” (coauthored with Jasonn Windett and Reza Mousavi) at the annual MPSA conference in Chicago, (April 2019)
Dr. Jason Giersch’s paper was accepted for publication
Jason Giersch, Martha Bottia, Elizabeth Stearns, Roz Michelson and Stephanie Moller had their paper “The Predictive Role of School Performance Indicators on Students’ College Achievement” accepted for publication in Educational Policy. (May 2019)
Drs. Piatak and Mohr article
Piatak, J. and Mohr, Z., More Gender Bias in Academia? Examining the Influence of Gender and Formalization on Student Worker Rule Following. Journal of Behavioral Public Admimistration.
Dr. Jaclyn Piatak – Informal Accountability
LeRoux, K., Piatak, J., Romzek, B., and Johnston, J. (2019) . Informal Accountability in Children’s Service Networks: The Role of Frontline Workers, Human Service Organizations: Management Leadership & Governance, 1-17.
Dr. Tom Barth – Americans with Disabilities
Dr, Tom Barth (MPA Director) had his essay “Amerians with Disabilities: A Reminder for Public Administrators” published inn the PA Times. (2019)
Dr. Leland- NC Dept of Transportation
Suzanne Leland received a grant from the North Carolina Department of Transportation for $194,000 for FY2019-2020 titled “Bench-Marking Non-Motorized Policies and Project Delivery.”
Dr. Cheryl Brown – Machine Learning for Mosquito Abundance
Cheryl Brown’s work with a team of scholars at UNC Charlotte and the prestigious Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing (S. Chen, HLTH & DSI; A. Whiteman, GEOL & ESCI; A. Li, CAS; T. Rapp., E. Delmelle, and G. Chen, GEOL & ESCI; C. Brown, POLS; P. Robinson and M. Coffman, CHHS; D. Janies, BINF; […]