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Dr. James Walsh received the First Citizens Scholar Award in November 2019.

In November 2019, The Harshini de Silva Graduate Mentor selection committee named Dr. Suzanne Leland the 2020 recipient.

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; […]

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, Tom Barth (MPA Director) had his essay “Amerians with Disabilities: A Reminder for Public Administrators” published inn the PA Times. (2019)

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.

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.

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)

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)

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.