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January 2014

In This IssueGenerous Gift SupportsStudent Scholarships

Faculty Colloquium SeriesStarts Jan. 27 at New Time

Social Enterprise CourseAdvances Five CollegeBridging Project

Cordero Helps FoundSpringfield Nonprofit

Students Make ProfessionalContacts in D.C.

Ash's Austerity Report CitedAmong 2013's Most InfluentialWorks

Bushouse to Lead New FiveCollege Faculty Seminar

Schweik Helps StartDiscussion about LocalMakerspace

Alumni Updates

Events

Monday, Jan. 27, 12:15 p.m.International Partnershipand the Unexpected U.S.­Brazilian Rapprochement Amherst College ProfessorJavier Corrales (politicalscience) talks about his recentresearch in the first CPPAFaculty Colloquium of thespring semester.Thompson 620 Monday, Feb. 3, 12:15 p.m.Bearing Witness to Mothers'Lives in AcademiaAssociate Professor MariCastañeda (communication)talks about her recentresearch as part of the CPPAFaculty Colloquium Series.Thompson 620

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News & Updates

Generous Gift to Support Student Scholarships andInternshipsThe Center for Public Policy andAdministration (CPPA) is pleased toannounce a generous donation fromRichard Barnard (BS '76, MPA '86) forsupport of students pursuing master'sdegrees in public policy. This donation willhelp fund scholarships and summer internships over the next two years andlead to the establishment of the Barnard Family Fund, a permanentendowment that will eventually provide annual support for students pursuingcareers in public policy. "Mr. Barnard is an advocate for social justice, acause shared by so many of our students at CPPA," says KathrynMcDermott, acting CPPA director. "This donation will allow a greater numberof them to pursue that passion." Read more.

Faculty Colloquium Series Begins Jan. 27, at New TimeTo better accommodate the campus class schedule,the CPPA Faculty Colloquium talks will now meet from12:15 to 1:15 p.m. The series kicks off next Monday,Jan. 27., with Amherst College Political ScienceProfessor Javier Corrales, who will talk about theunlikely relationship between the United States andBrazil. On Monday, Feb. 3, Associate Professor MariCastañeda (communication) will address policies inthe Academy that affect mothers and motherhood.Hampshire College's Megan Briggs Lyster will speak

about using social entrepreneurship to address society's wicked problemson Monday, March 3. And Professor Donald Tomaskovic­Devey (sociology)will conclude the series on Monday, April 7, with a talk about equalemployment opportunities in the U.S. All talks are in Thompson 620; all arewelcome. More information.

January Social Enterprise Course Advances Five CollegeCurriculum Bridging ProjectAs part of the Five College CurriculumBridging Project, Hampshire College'sMegan Briggs Lyster taught a Januarysession course titled Social Action throughSocial Enterprise. Students in the course atAmherst College not only learned about thetheory behind and history of social enterprise; they also consulted directlywith two local social enterprises and developed marketing and strategicplans for the companies. The Curriculum Bridging Project offers Five Collegefaculty opportunities to explore curricular and pedagogical innovations thatbridge undergraduate and professional education in the areas of publicpolicy, organizational leadership and innovation for social change. It isfunded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Students

Cordero Helps Start Nonprofit Serving Springfield Youth

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Event Calendar

Alumni Update Form

Last month, Orlando Cordero (MPPA '15) helpedestablish Hope for Kids, a nonprofit that works tomeet the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of at­risk youth in Springfield, Mass. Cordero now sits onthe organization's board of directors and says hedraws often on the content that Associate ProfessorBrenda Bushouse presented last semester in herNonprofit Program Management course. Read more.

Students Make ProfessionalContacts in D.C. Fourteen CPPA students spent last weekmeeting with representatives fromgovernment agencies and visitingorganizations during a professionaldevelopment trip to Washington, D.C. Thegroup met with Vanessa Megaw(MPPA/MBA '13) and Laura Molyneaux(MPP '13) at the Consumer FinancialProtection Bureau; and with Maggie Carson(MPA '85), John Ake (MPPA/MBA '09) andMichael Qualter (MPA '03) at the U.S.Department of Labor. Students also visited the Urban Institute; Center forCivilians in Conflict; Center for American Progress; the U.S. Department ofthe Interior; the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management; the CongressionalBudget Office; and NASA. Thank you to all the alumni who met with thegroup and with individual students!

Faculty

Ash's Austerity Measures Report Repeatedly Cited Among2013's Most Influential Works

Several prominent national and internationalpublications named Professor Michael Ash(economics and public policy), Professor RobertPollin and doctoral candidate Thomas Herndon (botheconomics), on year­end lists of important thinkersand change­makers of 2013. The trio first made newsin April, when they published a paper revealingsignificant spreadsheet and methodological errors inthe academic study widely used to defend economicausterity policies. The UMass economists received

year­end nods from, among others, Foreign Policy; the Washington Post;and The Atlantic.

Bushouse to Lead New Five College Faculty SeminarAssociate Professor Brenda Bushouse will lead theFive College Curriculum Bridging Project facultyseminar that begins next week. Through the seminar,Five College faculty will develop or substantiallyrevise a course so that the content actively engageswith the external environment and better preparesstudents for professional education or careers.Bushouse directs the Curriculum Bridging Project,which is helping to shape the next generation of socialchange leaders by connecting undergraduate liberalarts education with graduate professional programs throughout the FiveColleges.

Schweik Helps Start Discussion about Local MakerspaceAssociate Professor Charles Schweik(environmental conservation and publicpolicy) helped organize a three­dayworkshop last week where area youth andadults learned to program an Arduino, asimple computer board built with open­source hardware. The workshop was heldat Amherst Media and included aninformation session about establishing amakerspace, or community workshopopen to the public, that would have high­

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Alumni

D.C. Networking Event ASuccess About two dozen CPPA and UMass alumnijoined current CPPA students and SatuZoller, CPPA associate director, for anetworking happy hour in Washington,D.C., last week. Thank you to all the alumswho attended. It was great to see so manyfriendly faces!

Last June, John Ake (MPPA/MBA '09) married Erin Jehn, a former disabilityrights attorney and current special education teacher. Congratulations! Anna Fung­Morley (MPPA '13) is a performance management analyst atthe Edward J. Collins Center for Public Management at the University ofMassachusetts Boston. In this role, she helps municipalities use data toimprove performance and inform policymaking. Laura Molyneaux (MPP '13) is now a finance and policy analyst at theConsumer Financial Protection Bureau. She works on internal controls withthe travel team in the office of the chief financial officer. Nick Russo (MPP '13) was recently promoted to policy program associateat the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute. He researchestopics related to broadband infrastructure and telecommunications, thenprovides analysis of broadband policy for use at the federal, state and locallevels. Ashley Vieira (MPP '13) is coordinating two separate health care projects atBoston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. At the hospital,Vieira is project coordinator for an international medical challenge to find thebest solution to the analysis, interpretation and reporting of genomic data. Inaddition, she is helping to establish Harvard's new Coordinating Center forthe Undiagnosed Diseases Network, funded through a grant from theNational Institutes of Health. CPPA wants to hear from you! Update your information through our AlumniUpdate Form or drop us a line at kcolon@pubpol.umass.edu.

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