Department of Public Administration & Policy

2012 Levine Lecture to be Delivered by Laurence Lynn

DPAP's 2012 Levine Lecture will be delivered by Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. on Thursday, March 29th at 6PM. The title of Dr. Lynn's talk is: "America's 'Broken Government': What Would Madison Say?" Dr. Lynn is a Sid Richardson Research Professor at the LBJ School, University of Texas-Austin and Sydney Stein, Jr. Professor of Public Management Emeritus at the University of Chicago. He is a past president of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management and a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He is the recipient of the H. George Frederickson Award (PMRA), the John Gauss Award (APSA), and the Dwight Waldo and Paul Van Riper awards (ASPA). The event will be held in the Butler Boardroom at American University.

Durant receives 2012 Dwight Waldo Award

Robert F. Durant has been awarded the prestigious Dwight Waldo Award for 2012. This award is presented by the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) to persons who have made outstanding contributions to the professional literature of public administration over an extended career. The award recognizes an individual with active scholarship that has furthered the discipline of public administration. Past winners include our own David Rosenbloom, and our invited 2010, 2011, and 2012 Levine Lecturers – Kenneth J. Meier, Hal Rainey, and Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. Professor Durant is also the 2011 American University Scholar-Teacher of the Year. Read more

NEWBOLD NAMED U.S. SUPREME COURT FELLOW

Stephanie Newbold has been named a U.S. Supreme Court Fellow for the 2012-2013 term. Professor Newbold will be assigned to the office of the Counselor to the Chief Justice. Established in 1973, the highly prestigious Supreme Court Fellows Program "provides fellows an opportunity to study firsthand both the administrative machinery of the federal judiciary and the dynamics of interbranch relations." Congratulations to Professor Newbold!

DPAP Ph.D. Students Win National Research Awards

Amanda Girth, PhD, DPAP 2010, has been named the 2011 winner of the American Political Science Association’s Leonard White Award for the best dissertation in the field of Public Administration, while Bill Resh has recently received the competitive 2011 Paul A. Volcker Junior Scholar Research Award, also from the APSA. Sarah Pettijohn, third year DPAP Phd Student, has been selected an Emerging Scholar for 2011 by the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organization and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), the leading scholarly association studying nonprofit organizations. Read more

DPAP Professors Awarded Research Grants

Alison Jacknowitz and Taryn Morrissey received grants from the Institute for Research on Poverty and the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research to study food insecurity, obesity, and eating patterns among children ages birth to five. Read more