T he Sanford Institute of Public Policy’sPhD faculty rank first among their U.S.public policy peers, according to a new

measure of scholarly productivity. The FacultyScholarly Productivity Index (FSPI), devel-oped by Lawrence B. Martin, graduate dean atthe State University of New York at StonyBrook, rates annual faculty output by countingthe publications, awards, honors and grants offaculty members. The weight given to eachvariable differs by academic discipline.

Some of the FSPI results, calculated with2005 data, were reported in the Jan. 12, 2007issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Fritz Mayer, the Sanford Institute’s Directorof Graduate Studies, is currently evaluatingmore than 100 applications for the Institute’sfirst class of PhD students, who will start this fall.

“Since we are only now admitting our firstdoctoral students, we can hardly claim to bethe top PhD program in public policy,” Mayersaid, “but the faculty ranking suggests some-thing about our potential. It’s a bit like beingranked #1 in pre-season basketball polls—it’swhat you do when the season starts that counts.But I’m not surprised by the rankings. We havea terrific faculty.”

Because it is based on measurable data, theFSPI provides a welcomed alternative to theoften cited and often criticized U.S. News andWorld Report graduate school rankings, whichare based on program reputation. Academicsprefer data-derived evaluations such as theNational Research Council’s doctoral programrankings, but the NRC rankings have not beenupdated since 1995. (Please see page 6)

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Joel Fleishman is on a missionto save foundations from them-selves. Calling them “the leastaccountable major institutionsin America,” Fleishman arguesin a new book that althoughfoundations play a vital role inthe country’s civic life, theymust act quickly to mend their arrogant andsecretive ways or risk increased public skep-ticism and government regulation.

“The only way for founda-tions to protect the freedom,creativity, and flexibility theynow enjoy—and which theyneed if they are to serve societyto their fullest potential—is toopen their doors and windowsto the world so that all can seewhat they are doing and howthey are doing it,” he writes inThe Foundation: A Great Ameri-can Secret—How Private Wealth

Is Changing the World.Few people are better placed to send a

message to the nation’s (Please see page 8)

Popular prof to leadRobertson ScholarsThe Sanford Institute will soon bid farewellto one of its best loved and highly respectedprofessors. Tony Brown, whose leadershipcourses have inspired scores of Duke stu-dents to launch community service projectsin Durham and elsewhere, will start a newjob as president of the Robertson ScholarsProgram in July.

“I tell everyone that I have the best job at Duke, but this new position provides ahuge opportunity to have an impact,” Brownsaid. “If you look at the quality of the stu-dents, the resources and the support fromthese two great universities, there is greatpotential to encourage young people to acton their ideas.” (Please see page 6)

Fleishman urges new era ofaccountability in philanthropy

Gen. Zinni on Iraqpage 4

By Suzanne PerryThe Chronicle of Philanthropy

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From the Director

As the new year begins, we are continuing thetransformative work of converting the TerrySanford Institute of Public Policy into a school of public policy. The new school will be the 10that Duke and will operate in close collaborationwith the Law School, Nicholas School ofEnvironment and Earth Sciences, Fuqua Schoolof Business, Medical School and others as itseeks to be a catalyst and resource for activitiesthroughout the university that bear on public policy broadly defined.

Becoming a school will take several years,but already we have come a long way. Wesecured formal support from our faculty peers onthe Duke Academic Council, from PresidentRichard Brodhead and from the Duke Board ofTrustees. President Brodhead and Provost PeterLange have been unstinting in their praise of theSanford Institute, and visionary about the largerrole a school of public policy will play in helpingthe university achieve the goals laid out in itsnew strategic plan. Titled “Making a Difference,”the plan was endorsed by the Trustees last fall.

Among the goals of the university’s strategicplan is to achieve a broader, deeper engagementin public life and to apply the knowledge and cre-ativity of its faculty and students to major publicchallenges. President Brodhead recently told the

Sanford Board ofVisitors, “It’s really hardto see how we wouldreach any of those tar-gets if we didn’t haveSanford as the glue thatholds the rest of theplace together and givesit a certain kind of char-acter.”

In consultation with our Board of Visitors,we are honing our vision of the new school ofpublic policy and closely examining what definesour character. We want to build upon existingresearch strengths—both within the Instituteand at Duke—in health, energy and the envi-ronment, globalization and development, andsocial policy, as we add the 21 new faculty posi-tions needed to fulfill the potential of the newschool. We want to remain collaborative, entre-preneurial, and passionate about teaching.We’ve chosen to weave the teaching of ethics,democratic values, and leadership skills morebroadly throughout the curriculum as we seek to involve our students, through research andengagement in real-world problems, in theirresponsibilities as global citizens.

We’ve already made progress toward some of these goals. We welcomed Elizabeth OltmansAnanat, who conducts research on poverty

dynamics (see profile on page 3). MarcBellemare, profiled in the fall newsletter, bringsexpertise in international development. AlexPfaff, a noted global environmental policy schol-ar from Columbia, will join us next fall. Alongwith their disciplinary expertise they bring anequally important dedication to applying researchto the pressing policy problems of today.

The long-term goal for the new school initia-tive is a $65 million endowment to support stu-dent financial aid, internships, faculty salaries,and research. In approving our plans, the Presi-dent and Provost set a fundraising threshold forrecognition as a school: $40 million by the end ofthe 2008-09 fiscal year. The Duke Financial AidInitiative boosts our efforts by matching everydollar we raise toward student aid.

Much remains to be done, but I am encour-aged by our progress so far and inspired by ourmission—nothing less than transforming theglobal community by sending into it a new gen-eration of men and women whose academictraining, real-world experience, and personaldevelopment have empowered them to help builda better world.

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Sanford News Briefs

Sanders wins North Carolina award •Charles A. Sanders, M.D., center, accepts congratulations from PPS Professor BruceJentleson and his wife Barbara Jentlesonat a dinner in November honoring the seven2006 recipients of the prestigious NorthCarolina Award. Sanders, who has served asSanford Institute Board of Visitors chairman

since 1997, was selected for his contributionsto science. He was recognized for being achampion of the importance of research tomedical advancement as a cardiologist, as aprofessor, as an executive at major pharma-ceutical companies, and through his service on the boards of biotechnology firms. Sanders started the cardiac catheterizationunit at Massachusetts General Hospital in1962, became director of that hospital in 1972, and worked in pharmaceutical researchat Squibb Corp., and later as CEO of Glaxo Inc. He also helped create the North CarolinaHealthy Start Foundation, which works toreduce infant mortality.

Civil society forum • The United States -Southern Africa Center for Leadership andPublic Values held its fifth annual Civil SocietyForum at the University of Cape Town inNovember. The Forum brings together 30 non-profit leaders in the United States and SouthAfrica to share insights on how best to promotesocial justice in their respective countries.

Forum participants agreed to publish a mono-graph in 2007 that shares the insights from pre-vious gatherings and calls on leaders in all sec-tors to renew their commitment to social jus-tice. Sanford Institute faculty participatingincluded the Center Director AmbassadorJames A. Joseph, Kathryn Whetten, RachelWhetten and Anthony So.

Center launches web site • The TriangleCenter on Terrorism and Homeland Security,co-sponsored by the Institute, UNC-Chapel Hill and RTI International, launched a web sitethat features news and information about thecenter, tools for assisting in homeland securityand terrorism research, and lists of courses and internship opportunities for studentsinterested in these topics.

The site also contains an interactive data-base of experts in terrorism and homelandsecurity-related fields. Faculty and RTI scholars wishing to be added to the expertsdatabase should contact Sarah Danielson atsjdaniel@duke.edu

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A ssistant Professor of PPS ElizabethOltmans Ananat first became inter-ested in inequality when she was a

girl growing up in Evanston, Ill.“It was a diverse community, a lot like

Durham,” she says. “At school, I saw that myfriends and other students had differentexperiences depending on what was goingon for them outside of school, and it chal-lenged me to thinkabout why.”

Today Ananat de-votes her research toanalyzing the causesand effects of pover-ty that persists fromgeneration to gener-ation and examiningthe role that neigh-borhoods and fami-lies play in maintaining inequality.

“I’m fascinated with the dynamics ofpoverty—how and why inequality perpetu-ates itself. I want my research to identifyplaces where policies can intervene, wherewe can change that process.”

Ananat joined the Sanford Institute thisyear after completing her PhD in economicsat the Massachusetts Institute of Technol-ogy, where she examined ways that divorce,legalized abortion and racial segregationaffect intergenerational poverty. Her cur-rent research investigates ways that birthcontrol affects family planning and childrenas well as ways that poverty drives marriageand divorce. She is especially interested inhow women make decisions that affect boththeir economic situation and the circum-stances into which their children are born.

In her public policy studies seminar,“Poverty Policy after Welfare Reform,” Ananatchallenges students to scrutinize welfare re-form and its consequences.

“I ask them to think about why we givemoney to women, and why we feel ambiva-lent about it,” she said. “Also, there are a lotof very poor men who are victims of global-ization and the shift to a technology-basedeconomy. They have a big influence on chil-dren and families, but no one really talksabout them.”

Ananat enjoys her students because theyare engaged in the class.

“They have different backgrounds, and avariety of experiences with poverty,” she said.“Some have worked with homelessness, somewith international refugees and some with

neighborhood advocacy. There is plenty theyknow that I don’t, which is great for me,because I like learning from my students.”

In her favorite assignment, she askedstudents to recommend a change in anti-poverty policy, and then present the idea asif they were in a Congressional hearing.

“What should poverty policy look like?The subject is dynamic, and people don’thave answers to all the problems,” she said.“It’s great to teach students the basics ofhow to do research, and then see them tack-le this question. With their different skillsets, they can already see so clearly someanswers that others like me can’t see.”

Ananat credits her mother, an advocatefor early investment in children, with inspir-ing her interest in public policy.

“She went to graduate school and ran achild care center, and eventually shapedpolicy at the state level. She translated the-ory into direct action to benefit kids. I grewup thinking this is the way to do things.”

Ananat lives in downtown Durham whereshe likes walking through neighborhoods,watching them change from street to street.

“I was fascinated with this as a kid, and itstill inspires my interest today,” she said.“You know it when a neighborhood changes—everyone knows it—but how do weknow it, and what do we know as a result?”

After studying and living in Michiganand Massachusetts, Ananat was attracted toDurham’s diversity and its visible strugglewith issues such as race and class. “Everyplace has problems, and people in Durhamdon’t try to pretend otherwise. I’d rather livehere than somewhere that pretends to beidyllic.”

New professor examines dynamicsof persistent poverty By Sidney Cruze

“Abortion and Selection”NBER Working Paper No. 12150By Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat, J. Gruber, P. B. Levine and D. Staiger

The legalization of abortion in the UnitedStates in the early 1970s represents one of themost important changes in American socialpolicy in the twentieth century. In additionto its obvious implications for the likelihoodof giving birth in the case of an unintendedpregnancy, the social significance of thischange is much broader. For example, thelegalization of abortion may have altered thecharacteristics and achievement of entiregroups of children. Children’s outcomes mayhave improved, on average, because theywere more likely to be born into a householdin which they were wanted. This phenome-non is referred to as “selection.”

“Abortion and Selection” examineswhether there is evidence supporting selec-tion resulting from abortion legalization byfocusing on a broad array of characteristics ofchildren born in the early 1970s. Those chil-dren are now in their thirties, so the authorsexamine a number of adult outcomes, includ-ing completed educational attainment, em-ployment, poverty status, and criminal activi-ty. Their data come from the 2000 Census.

The authors find consistent evidence ofchanges in the nature of groups born in the1970s due to greater access to abortion. Achild who would have been born if abortionwere not available would have been 23 to 69percent more likely to be a single parent, 73to 194 percent more likely to receive welfare,and 12 to 31 percent less likely to graduatefrom college.

This paper is available as online athttp://papers.nber.org/papers/W12150.pdf

— Les Picker, NBER

Student honored for service work

Duke Senior Sally Ong, a participant in Professor Tony Brown’s EnterprisingLeadership Initiative, was honored last fallfor her community service efforts. Shereceived the inaugural North CarolinaCampus Compact (NCCC) Community Impact Student Award.

The award recognizes students who“have made significant, innovative contribu-tions to campus-based efforts to addresscommunity needs.” Ong is one of 21 studentsin North Carolina selected for the award.

Ong was recognized for founding, alongwith another ELI participant, a program forDuke undergraduates called SEE! TheWorld.The program integrates service learning intostudents’ study abroad experiences.

A biology major with a concentration isneuroscience, Ong is a native of Malaysia. Inaddition to participating in ELI, Ong also par-ticipated in Service Opportunities inLeadership (SOL), another Hart Leadershipprogram. Through a SOL summer grant in2005, Ong completed a community-basedresearch project in a Liberian refugee campcalled Buduburam, based in Ghana.

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A As part of a renewed emphasis on thehonors option for public policy under-graduates, 10 PPS students researched

and wrote an honors thesis and will graduatewith distinction this year. Two more PPS stu-dents are pursuing independent honors proj-ects during the spring semester.

Professor of PPS Ellen Mickiewicz, hon-ors program advisor, said for many students itis the first time they have had to formulatean original research query. Some also get theopportunity to talk to influential leaders whohave firsthand knowledge of world events.For example, for her research on media cen-sorship in Chile under Gen. Augusto Pinochet,Sophia Peters traveled to Washington, D.C.,to meet and interview former U.S. Ambas-sador to Chile Harry Barnes.

Participation in the honors program grewthis year partly due to a schedule change.“We moved the honors seminar from fall/spring of the senior year to spring of the

junior year and fall of the senior year” saidProfessor and Director of UndergraduateStudies Jay Hamilton. “That way studentsknow in December, as they are applying tograduate schools or for jobs, if they are grad-uating with distinction in PPS.”

Students presented their research onDec. 8. The students and their thesis titlesare as follows:

Vijay K. Brihmadesam: “Solvable Puzzle:Understanding Problems with Diabetes forthe Hispanic Population in North Carolina.”

Joe L. Fore, Jr.: “‘To Promote the Progress ofScience’: Is it Time to Adopt a Research UseException in U.S. Patent Law?”

Benjamin P. Freedland: “Ensuring Repre-sentation and the Quest for Competition in Congressional Redistricting.”

Christine Elizabeth Gorman: “Channels ofCommunication: How and Why Pro- and

Anti-Death Penalty Groups Use the Mediato Advocate Causes and Mobilize Consti-tuencies.”

Theodore James Lauzen: “Urban Renais-sance and Decay: An Evaluation of Revi-talization in Chicago Community Areas.”

Cristina Maria Nunez: “Demand for Dollars:Explanations for the Increase in Remittancesto Cuba Despite U.S. Regulations.”

Megan Rebecca O’Flynn: “FoundationGrantmaking and U.S. Education Reform:Lessons from the Strategies of the FordFoundation, the Annenberg Foundation, andthe Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.”

Sophia Cristina Peters: “Dictatorship toDemocracy: How Television Broke Free ofCensorship in Pinochet’s Chile.”

Nena Michelle Sanderson: “Protecting theFamily: North Carolina’s Religious Right andthe Campaign to Control Education.”

David Andrew Snider: “Missteps andMovement Forward: The Decline andRevitalization of Downtown Durham.”

Undergrad honors research examinescensorship, urban decay, politics

S peaking to a capacity crowd at theSanford Institute on Jan. 29, Gen.Anthony Zinni, USMC (Ret.), gave

a sharply critical analysis of both the war inIraq and the current administration’s MiddleEast policy as a whole.

Zinni’s non-partisan approach emphasizedlearning from mistakes made in the region,rather than merely assigning blame to anyparticular political faction. “It’s time to endthe red state/blue state (BS),” he declared.

Zinni—a frank and impassioned speaker—was the 2007 Terry Sanford DistinguishedLecturer. During a two-day visit to the Insti-tute, he also participated in two luncheon dis-cussions with students and met with areaROTC members and Rotary Peace Fellows.

In a speech that emphasized the long andcomplex history of Western involvement inthe Middle East, Zinni expressed his frustra-tion over current government leaders’ disre-gard for tactical strategies generated duringhis time there. Beginning with the first GulfWar, his leadership in the region spannedmore than a decade, affording him an inti-mate understanding of the interrelated politi-cal and social relationships there. From 1997to 2000, Zinni was commander-in-chief of

the U.S. Central Command, overseeing U.S.military activity in the Arab Gulf and CentralAsia. After he retired in 2002, President Bushappointed him as the U.S. Special Envoy toIsrael and the Palestinian Authority.

When preparations began for the over-throw of Saddam in 2001, “I was shocked tosee that 10 years of experience and war plan-ning in Iraq were cast aside,” he said. “Thiswas not only a military task; it was a politi-cal, social, economic task.” The prevailingtheory in Washington—that Iraqis wouldautomatically embrace a “Jeffersonian ideal”of democracy following Saddam’s ouster—was used to justify a lack of long-term plan-ning, he said.

Sectarian divisions and a lack of demo-cratic experience in the region were not ade-quately recognized, he added. Pointing to atendency to oversimplify Middle Easternpolitics and culture, Zinni described the cur-rent conflict as “much more complicatedthan we have given it credit for.”

He also criticized as “out of touch” the gov-ernment’s effort to minimize ground troopsand instead fight a highly-touted “high-tech”war. Policymakers’ overconfidence in smartweaponry was a direct cause of the troop defi-ciency issues the U.S. now faces, he said.

Zinni advocated for clear and decisive ac-tion from the American people as well as gov-ernment leaders. Signaling a need to movebeyond partisan infighting and minor debates,he asserted, “This argument over 23,000troops is absurd… Either you fix it, you containit or you leave it, and none of those is going tobe easy. But make up your damn mind.”

Zinni also called on government leadersto better shape their policy for the post-ColdWar era, and recognize the diminished appli-cability of notions like nation-state andphysical borders.

“We have no vision for future securitybecause we did not know how to collaborate[with regional leaders].” He also pointed tobloated national bureaucracy and isolation-istic policy decisions as symptomatic of anadministration lacking the dynamism neces-sary for contemporary global politics.

Zinni calls for decisive plan of actionBy Liz Williams

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F resh out of law school in 1967, TyroneBrown moved to Washington, D.C.,with plans to stay one year to clerk

for then-Chief Justiceof the United StatesEarl Warren. Nearly40 years later, Brownstill calls the nation’scapital home.

Over the years, hebuilt a remarkablecareer that includesstints as a commis-sioner at the FederalCommunications Commission, as legalcounsel and director to Black EntertainmentTelevision, and as a partner and counsel intwo leading law firms.

This spring, Brown is sharing his insider’sexperience in the telecommunications in-

dustry by teaching media ethics through theDeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Demo-cracy. A self-described “news hawk,” Brownsays he enjoys exploring with Duke studentshow media organizations have evolved, aswell as the implications of corporate-mediaconsolidation and proliferating informationsources for an informed democracy.

“The newspaper business is finding it verychallenging to remain influential because ofthe impact of the Internet,” he says. Profitmargins are declining and the industry iscontracting, as evidenced by the TribuneCo.’s decision to sell off $84 million in assetsand McClatchy’s purchase of Knight-Ridder.

“It’s clear that newspapers will have tochange their business model, but I don’tthink at this point anyone knows what thatnew model will be…”

Market forces also are squeezing broad-casters, Brown says. “In the old days, whenNBC or one of the other major networks an-

nounced cutbacks, they exempted the newsoperation,” he says. “But now you see thenews divisions taking a heavy hit during net-work restructuring. ... We’ve seen this hap-pening with increasing rapidity with theexpansion of cable and radio outlets, andmore recently with the Internet.” Brown saysthat the “very clear trend” over the past fewdecades has been that “the major news out-lets have become much more integrated into corporate empires whose stated, unvar-nished goal is to maximize profits for theshareholder.”

Throughout his career, Brown has been im-mersed in the government regulatory area ofthe telecommunications industry. For a decadehe worked in Wiley Rein & Fielding’s commu-nications practice, and prior to that was a part-ner at Steptoe & Johnson in its telecommuni-cations and transactions practice.

In the 1980s, he was a founder and presi-dent of the Washington, D.C., cable televi-sion system, and he took a similar organiza-tional role in a Puerto Rico cell phone compa-ny in the 1990s. In 2000, Brown helped bringIridium, an international mobile satellite com-pany, out of bankruptcy and into solvency.

A lot of important things happen forBen Abram around the dinner table.

It was over dinner at his parents’house in Chapel Hill that Abram’s mother, apsychologist, suggested he take more scienceclasses. “I told her okay, but only if it’s ap-plied science.” That was one reason whyAbram switched his major from social sci-ences to civil and environmental engineer-ing. “And I’m loving it.”

He’s also studying public policy at theSanford Institute, where he is a teaching assis-tant in an introductory class. This year, his pol-icy education is continuing outside the class-room through a home-based speaker series.

Every Wednesday night, Abram “packs asmany friends and future friends as I can”around the dinner table in his small apart-ment for conversations with distinguishedspeakers. The guest list has included DavidFolkenflik, media correspondent for NationalPublic Radio, Edward B. Fiske, publisher ofthe eponymous college guide, and SonalShah, vice president of Goldman, Sachs &Co. Other speakers have been from Duke,including Samuel Wells, the noted religiouseducator and dean of Duke Chapel. Abramremains impressed that one guest, MattGross, The New York Times’ “Frugal Traveler,”hopscotched around the world in 96 days

and for just $4,000.The dinners are

not only exhilarat-ing, but they are freefor Abram and hisclassmates. The fundsfor them and otherprograms to connectstudents and facultycome from DukePresident RichardBrodhead, who setsaside $100,000 toencourage such inti-mate social and in-tellectual contact.

“Having a con-nection, a real con-nection, with faculty members means somuch,” Abram says. “Having a solid conver-sation—‘Where are you headed?’ ‘What’sgoing on with your work?’—is very, very im-portant. It helps. We are all so busy that it’sreally hard to connect.”

Charged with energy, Abram is committedto environmental causes and progressive poli-tics. He preaches engagement with issues andcampus dialogue and for that reason is promot-ing the nonpartisan CampusProgress.org.

Abram says students should be adventur-

ous in their Duke careers and be willing totake more risks. Last summer, his interests intravel, engineering and good works cametogether in Uganda through Engineers With-out Borders. He was part of a group thatworked on improving water supply and qualityin two rural villages where waterborne illnessand silted-in wells were frequent problems.

“We learned that villagers sometimes gotsick even when the water was clean,” he said.“It isn’t enough to boil the water if you’re usingcontaminated containers.”

Ben Abram, public policy and engineering major, hosts political activistJefferson Smith (both at center), founder of the Oregon Bus Project, for astudent dinner and talk at his off-campus home.

Dinner dialogues connect students with leading speakers

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Ex-FCC Commissioner Tyrone Brownteaches media ethics this semesterBy Bridget Booher

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The FSPI has rekindled discussions abouthow best to evaluate graduate programs in avariety of disciplines. In some cases, facultyat unheralded programs score higher thantheir peers at Ivy League schools, causingcritics to question the research. The FSPImeasures 7,294 programs and 177,816 facul-ty members at 354 institutions.

“It’s nice to be ranked number one inscholarly productivity,” said Institute DirectorBruce Kuniholm, “but all ranking systemshave flaws. Prospectivestudents need to thinkabout whether a gradu-ate program is a goodmatch with their goalsand interests by consid-ering many factors suchas the size of the pro-gram, the type of pro-gram, faculty researchinterests and other indices. Rankings are animportant measure of excellence, but areonly one part of the picture.”

Martin said although there are clear con-nections between faculty productivity andprogram excellence, the FSPI does not eval-uate programs, per se.

“It is tempting to interpret this measure-ment as meaning that program x is the bestin the country,” Martin said. “It may be, butthat’s not what we’ve measured. The pro-gram ranked number 1 is the most produc-tive per capita with the variables we’veincluded and with the weighting schemethat we’ve adopted.”

Additional detail on the FSPI is availableonline at academicanalytics.com

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The Robertson Scholars Program, housedon the University of North Carolina-ChapelHill campus, is an undergraduate merit schol-arship program that links Duke and UNC.Every year the program enrolls 15 scholars ateach university. During their undergraduatecareers, students from both campuses takeleadership seminars together and completeintensive summer projects that include serv-ice, research and international study.

A professor of the practice of PPS, Brownbrings a certain level of excitement to hisclasses. In 1999, he received one of Duke’shighest teaching honors, the Howard JohnsonDistinguished Teaching Award.

“Tony has been an invaluable member ofour teaching team in the Hart LeadershipProgram for 13 years, and his legacy is huge,”said Alma Blount, director of the HartLeadership Program. “He is a master mentorand gifted teacher who can get students to seethemselves as social entrepreneurs.”

Before coming to Duke, Brown had a longcareer in the insurance industry. He served aschairman and CEO of the Covenant InsuranceCo. for almost 10 years, then as vice presidentfor external affairs at the University ofConnecticut and chief operating officer ofCredit Suisse First Boston’s Equity Division. Heearned his MBA at Harvard.

“His classes fill up in five minutes,” Blountadded. “He’s a dynamic professor, and that’shis legacy: his teaching style and his gift forhelping students learn the art of becomingcreative thinkers,” she said.

Students such as Yoay Lurie (’05) andMary Adkins (’04) saw Brown as a valuedadvisor and a close friend.

“Tony is warm and completely approach-able,” Adkins said, “but he will also be verystraight with you and tell you in what ways hethinks your ideas need tweaking in order towork. I found him to be consistently positive, up-beat, assuring and full of encouraging words.”

Since Brown created the EnterprisingLeadership Initiative in 2001, his studentshave created a wide range of social ventureprojects that have benefited Duke and theDurham community. A number of these projects have since become self-sustainingorganizations. They include The Center forRace Relations, Common Ground, RivalMagazine, Durham Giving Project, CampKesem and SEE the World.

“He helps students see, even if they’venever executed a bold idea in the past, thatthey have the ability to do it. He does it againand again and again. I don’t think anybodyelse is as gifted as Tony at helping studentslocate this talent in themselves,” Blount said.

Brown plans to retain his Duke faculty ap-pointment and initially will teach two courseson leadership and ethics to the RobertsonScholars. He may expand his teaching load at a later date.

“We are very sad to see Tony go, but at the same time, we also realize he won’t be toofar away,” Blount said. “We know he will findcreative ways to stay connected to the HartLeadership Program and Sanford community.”

Turner tells it like it isBy Liz Williams

In a public lecture Dec. 2 sponsored by theDeWitt Wallace Center for Media andDemocracy, media mogul and philanthro-

pist Ted Turner offered a forthright and per-sonal perspective on issues ranging from hispassion for protecting the environment tohis staunch support for the United Nations.

Though asked numerous questions abouthis experiences at CNN, Turner made lightof them, emphasizing instead his other inter-ests and investments made after steppingaway from CNN leadership. These pursuitsinclude a restaurant franchise, Ted’s MontanaGrill, and his bison ranches. Turner’s commit-ment to philanthropy—a $1 billion pledge

to the U.N. and his central role in orches-trating the Cold War-era Goodwill Games—were also recognized.

“I think the U.N., considering everything,is doing a remarkable job,” Turner said.“Right now, the U.N. is against the war inIraq, the U.S. is for it and our policies are notas good as the U.N. as far as internationalrelations are concerned.”

A man whose irreverent commentary hasearned him the nickname “The Mouth of theSouth,” Turner spoke passionately about hisviews on affecting change in the world. Heemphasized that small choices can make a dif-ference in reducing our environmental impactand pointed to changes he has made—own-ing an environmentally-friendly car, usingenergy-saving light bulbs, and picking up trash—as examples of easy improvements.

“If we destroy the environment, we’regoing to become extinct sooner rather than

later,” he said. “We have to change the waywe’re doing things, and we can’t keep draw-ing on our environmental capital.”

A staunch supporter of free speech andfreedom of the press, Turner was not afraidto voice support for controversial MiddleEastern news network Al-Jazeera. “Thereare too many news networks as it is,” he said,noting that television coverage has becomefar more competitive in the two and a halfdecades since he launched CNN, the world’sfirst network to offer 24-hour news.

He criticized the media’s tendency tosensationalize, suggesting that entertain-ment-related content is detrimental to thequality of social commentary and politicalanalysis, while admitting that his former networks—including CNN—ran as manysensational stories as other news organiza-tion. “But I’m no longer responsible for suchchoices,” he said.

News BriefsAvian flu preparedness • Sixty journalistsand public health communication officialsgathered at the UNC School of Journalismand Mass Communication Nov. 30 for a pro-gram on North Carolina’s preparedness foravian influenza. The event was developedby the Triangle Center on Terrorism andHomeland Security, a joint Duke, RTI Inter-national and UNC initiative headed byVisiting Professor of PPS David Schanzer.

Lessons of the day included:

• Government and industry need to have a clear, consistent message about public health risks and provide access to credibleexperts.

• Public health communication specialists should develop concise materials in advance that explain the responses being made and list experts in the field for journalists to contact.

• Forums should be held to provide critics of the response plans an opportunity to be heard and for those criticisms to be addressed by government and industry.

The event was cosponsored by the NorthCarolina Center on Public Health Prepared-ness and the UNC School of Journalism andMass Communication.

Global antibiotic resistance campaign •The Institute’s Program on Global Health andTechnology Access, directed by PPS SeniorResearch Fellow Anthony So, will serve asthe strategic policy unit for a new globalcoalition to combat antibiotic resistancecalled ReAct—Action on Antibiotic Resis-tance. So’s program will conceptualize waysto combat antibiotic resistance, such as diag-nostics, vaccines and additional researchand development of antibacterial drugs.

New Duke institute • Robert Cook-Deegan,research professor of PPS, was named prin-cipal investigator of the Research Ethics, Lawand Policy Core of the new NIH-funded DukeTranslational Medicine Institute (DTMI)established at Duke last fall. Under the lead-ership of Dr. Robert Califf, vice chancellor ofclinical research at Duke’s School ofMedicine, DTMI expands existing programsthat begin in the science laboratory andresult in novel therapies for patients.

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Social & Health PolicyCenter for Child and Family Policymeasuring results of NC’s $11Mschool nurse program By Sidney Cruze

T hree members of the Institute’s Cen-ter for Child and Family Policy—JoelRosch, Elizabeth Gifford and Audrey

Foster—will help Gov. Mike Easley’s officeevaluate an $11 millioneducation initiative thatplaces a nurse/social work-er team in N.C. schoolsto help at-risk childrenfocus on learning.

The Child and FamilySupport Teams are nowworking with teachers,school administrators andparents in 101 elemen-tary, middle and high schools in 21 countiesacross the state. Their goal is to make sureat-risk children and their families receivethe community support they need to helpthem succeed in school. While most pro-grams aimed at school success focus on whathappens in school, educators know thatfamily and community issues also play a rolein academic success or failure.

“Child advocacy experts across the na-tion have long argued that putting morenurses and social workers in schools wouldbe beneficial for children. But so far there isno empirical evidence showing how it bene-fits them,” Rosch said. “Our job is to notonly measure improvement, but to alsoshow how, when and why that improvementtakes place.”

The governor’s program is based on“System of Care principles,” nationally-recog-nized core values that child advocacy scholarsand experts agree should be a part of childand adolescent intervention programs.

“These System of Care principles are used throughout the country, so the study has nationwide implications,” Rosch said.

Researchers will examine both the pro-gram’s effect schoolwide and how it im-

pacts individual students. They will measureacademic achievement and out-of-homeplacement rates—situations that requirechildren to be removed from the home dueto delinquent behavior—in addition togathering information about grades, aca-demic progress and other school behavior.Some preliminary results are expected to beavailable by June 2007, but most outcomedata is two or three years away.

Several factors made the Center forChild and Family Policy a likely choice forthe program evaluation project. It has estab-lished a successful working relationship withthe N.C. Division of Social Services throughother projects, such as an evaluation ofNorth Carolina’s new child protective serv-ices system, the Multiple Response System.

The center also houses the N.C. Educa-tion Research Data Center. Established in2000 through a partnership with the N.C.Department of Public Instruction (DPI), theCenter stores and manages data on NorthCarolina’s public schools, students and teach-ers dating back to the mid-1990s. Child andFamily Policy Research Scientist ElizabethGlennie is the Center director.

“Elizabeth is an expert at working withthis education data and linking it to datafrom DPI,” Gifford said. “She’ll be workingwith us in our efforts to link data acrossagencies and create a clear picture of theservices that children receive across thespectrum. To have a project of this scale,with the nurses and social workers in somany schools, is novel.”

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“These System of Care principles are used throughoutthe country, so the study has

nationwide implications.”

The Center for Child and Family Policy’s recently launched new web site offers fresh con-tent, improved navigation and a dynamic new appearance. Register for conferences, readpolicy reports and briefs, locate experts and find information about the center’s researchprojects in education policy, early childhood adversity, substance abuse prevention and

youth violence. Online at http://www.pubpol.duke.edu/centers/child/

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grant makers than Fleishman, who has wornmany hats during his long career: philan-thropy scholar, foundation head, founda-tion-board member, charity-board member,corporate-board member, public official,university administrator, university fundraiser, Duke University public policy and lawprofessor and more.

Now 72, he has written his first book—aneffort, he says, to air his “lifelong lover’s quar-rel” with foundations.

“People criticize them for having lots ofmoney and not spending it very well or spend-ing it on excessive salaries or perks,” he said.“Sure, there are examples of that, but what’sreally important is what the foundations havedone. The value they’ve conferred on societyover the course of the past 125 years is justamazing, and nobody knows about it.”

However, facing minimal government reg-ulation or public oversight, he writes in hisbook, foundations “operate within an insulat-ed culture that tolerates an inappropriatelevel of secrecy and even arrogance in theirtreatment of grant seekers, grant receivers,the wider civic sector, and the public officialscharged with oversight. This needs to change.”

Foundations, Fleishman warns, are tread-ing on dangerous ground by keeping informa-tion from potential supporters. Furthermore,by refusing to discuss their mistakes openly,grant makers keep vital information fromtheir nonprofit colleagues about what worksand what doesn’t.

Right and WrongIn preparing his book, Fleishman interviewedmore than 100 foundation executives andprogram officers, academic leaders and non-profit heads. He and some Duke colleaguesused that information to draw up 100 casestudies, some of which are included in thebook. He writes that the most successful foun-dations focus on a limited number of issues,thoroughly analyze whether it is practical totackle a given problem and carefully select theorganizations that will receive their grants.

But the point Fleishman hammers homehardest is that foundations must honor theirtax-exempt status by letting the sun shine ontheir activities—provide more documenta-tion about their grants, analyze and callattention to their failures and conduct publicevaluations of both their existing and poten-tial new programs. A chapter of “not-so-mod-est proposals,” warns that given increased

Congressional scrutiny, foundations could faceretaliatory legislation if they don’t open upvoluntarily.

Among his suggestions: Foundations shoulddevelop a “transparency and accountabilitycode,” create a board to hear appeals from peo-ple who have been denied information from afoundation, pay for a system to publicly ratefoundations on how open they are and requirefoundations above a certain size to employ anombudsman. Absent such efforts, Fleishmansays, a federal Foundation Freedom of Infor-mation Act might be needed.

‘Wise Elder’Fleishman keeps himself strictly in the back-ground in his book. But friends and col-leagues describe him as a Renaissance man(he wrote a monthly wine column for VanityFair magazine for eight years) with a hugenetwork of friends and associates. While heshuns the limelight, they say Fleishman hasbeen a major force for greater accountabilityand effectiveness in the nonprofit world.

“In other cultures, he would be called awise elder,” says Peter Karoff, founder of thePhilanthropic Initiative, a nonprofit organiza-tion in Boston that advises foundations andother donors.

Issues

American foundations are wealth-ier and more numerous than thosein any other country, which makesour foundation sector unique. ...In most other countries, govern-ment regulation of the nonprofitsector is significantly stricter thanin the United States.

In Germany and Japan, forexample, government agenciespainstakingly review every appli-cation to create a foundation,and exercise what Americanswould regard as heavy-handedregulatory supervision. UnderFrench law, every foundation is

required to have a board memberor director appointed by the gov-ernment. ... I am not for amoment suggesting that any ofthose approaches would beappropriate for the UnitedStates. ...

But I must note that, in theUnited States, by contrast withall of the above countries andmany others, the creation of anonprofit organization, includinga foundation, merely requires thefiling of incorporation paperswith a state’s secretary of state orthe writing of a charitable trust

agreement by a lawyer. InternalRevenue Service approval of theorganization’s tax exemption as a501(c)(3) is virtually automatic,valid for five years, and subject tolittle in-depth substantive review.

After creation and prelimi-nary IRS tax exemption approval,foundations are required to filean annual 990-PF form reportwith the IRS (analogous to theform 990 required to be filed byother charities), but the reportsare usually never read. ...

Most observers agree that thepresent system of nonprofit over-

sight aimed at willful misbehavioris inadequate. But what kind ofreform should be implemented?...

To create an effective over-sight system for all civic-sectororganizations, including founda-tions, one in which the publiccan be confident that willful mis-conduct is detected, deterred,and punished, I am persuadedthat we must either place somegovernment agency other thanthe IRS in charge or invent a newarrangement whereby the IRS’srole in the oversight process issignificantly transformed. ...

Of all the oversight possibili-ties that have been suggested fordealing with willful misconductby nonprofits, including founda-tions, the one proposed byMarcus Owens, former director

Enhancing Foundation Effectiveness: Some Not-So-Modest Proposals[Excerpted from Chapter 15 of The Foundation: A Great American Secret; How Private Wealth is Changing the World by Joel Fleishman (PublicAffairs, 2007).]

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Fleishman joined the Duke faculty in 1971as a professor of public policy and law and wasthe Sanford Institute’s founding director. Hechaired the Duke Capital Campaign for theArts & Sciences and Engineering, and wasappointed first senior vice president of theuniversity in 1991. After serving as presidentof The Atlantic Philanthropic Service Co.Inc. in New York City from 1993 to 2001, hereturned to Duke full-time in 2003.

In addition to his work at Duke, Fleish-man sits on the boards of several corpora-tions, including Polo Ralph Lauren and

Boston Scientific, whichhe says gives him insightsthat he can apply to hisnonprofit work.

Corporate boards, hesays, are much more fo-cused on “careful process.”He adds: “The directorspay much closer attentionto what’s going on than istypical of nonprofit boards,or hfoundation boards.”

Fleishman left an espe-cially big imprint duringhis spell as president ofAtlantic, the U.S. arm of

a grant maker headquartered in Bermuda withabout $3 billion in assets—which at the timeawarded all of its grants anonymously at therequest of its founder, Charles Feeney, an Irishbusinessman. Given his emphasis on openness,it is ironic that Fleishman ended up workingfor a foundation that operated so secretly.

But Joel Orosz, a professor of philanthrop-ic studies at Grand Valley State University inGrand Rapids, Mich., and former programdirector at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, saysAtlantic “did an incredible amount of quietfield building,” providing money to projects to

monitor and improve the effectiveness ofcharities and foundations that attracted fewother grant makers. Many groups that now dosuch work got support from Atlantic duringFleishman’s tenure.

New Generation of ScholarsFleishman will continue to wage his “lover’squarrel” at Duke, where he heads the onlyacademic program in the country that focuseson foundation decision making ... [He] hopesthe program will incubate a new generation ofscholars who will write books to take upwhere The Foundation left off.

He says the publicity generated by [War-ren] Buffett’s gift to the Gates Foundationcould inspire greater attention to the issueshe raises in his book—and calls on the GatesFoundation to become a “model of what atransparently run foundation can be. Founda-tion leaders must find the courage and visionto rise above their self-imposed, self-imaginedphantoms of insecurity,” he writes, “and leadtheir institutions into a new era of trans-parency, accountability, and effectiveness.”

A longer version of this article first appeared inthe Dec. 7, 2006 issue of The Chronicle ofPhilanthropy. Used by permission.

of the IRS Exempt OrganizationDivision, is the only one I knowthat promises to be effective andalso unlikely to infringe on theindispensable freedom of non-profits.

... Owens concludes that theIRS is not the best home for charities supervision as currentlystructured, and calls for the cre-ation of a new congressionallychartered, private, not-for-profitorganization that would be relat-ed to but independent of the IRSto discharge that function.

Owens’s suggested newagency would be modeled on theNational Association ofSecurities Dealers, which regu-lates brokers and brokerage firms.

Like its sister organizations,the Municipal Securities Rule-

making Board and the PublicCompany Accounting OversightBoard, the NASD assists theSecurities and ExchangeCommission (SEC) in carryingout its responsibilities. ...

Owens urges creating aNASD- like agency for tax-exempt organization oversightthat would be related to, butindependent of, the IRS in muchthe same way that the NASD isrelated to, but independent of,the SEC, and would be financedby allowing foundations to obtaina tax credit against their federalfoundation tax obligations forpayments to support the newagency’s operations.

I believe that Owens’s analo-gy to the NASD is exactly right.

The financing scheme he pro-

poses is ingenious in that it bothessentially costs foundationsnothing and also succeeds inrefocusing on nonprofit-sectoroversight at least some of the rev-enues yielded by the foundationtax, which was the originalrationale given for its impositionin 1969. In fact, that tax hasyielded anywhere between $300million and $700 million depend-ing on the year—only about $50million of which has ended up inthe IRS Exempt Organizationbudget.

My strong recommendation,therefore, is that the first impor-tant action to increase founda-tion accountability be the estab-lishment by Congress of such anNASD-like private, nonprofitorganization related to the IRS in

much the same way that theNASD is related to the SEC,with sufficient resources, person-nel, and investigative powers tooversee the entire U.S. civic sec-tor, including foundations.

The new entity’s powersshould be carefully circumscribedto prevent it from intruding onsubstantive foundation and non-profit decision-making, and tolimit it to the enforcement oflaws and regulations specificallytargeting such matters as non-profit fidelity to conflict-of-inter-est, insider self-benefit, trans-parency, and comparable proce-dural standards enforced by law.

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Global Policy

T he Duke Center for InternationalDevelopment (DCID) and the UNCCenter for Global Initiatives (CGI)

are bringing World Bank managers to Duketo help them make smoother transitions be-tween country or sector assignments.

The Managers in Transition Program,piloted over the last two years, will runthrough the summer of 2009. Duke andUNC will host as many as eight World Bankcountry directors and sector directors per fis-cal year. The contract is worth up to$165,000 per year, depending on how manyemployees participate.

The program started in 2004 after a con-ference between World Bank officials andfaculty from both Duke and UNC that dealtwith how to improve the World Bank’s en-gagement with its country clients.

“During that conference, it was recognizedthat Bank staff are very good at what they do,but that their knowledge and expertise isoften not articulated and shared,” said DCIDExecutive Director Jonathan Abels. “It was

the recognition that creat-ing space for bank managersto reflect, think and plantheir next position would bebeneficial for everyone.”

The program’s mission isthreefold: 1) provide man-agers with a period to reflecton their past successes; 2)provide managers with lead-ership and managementtraining; and 3) allow direc-tors to meet faculty membersand gain information on issues and topics rele-vant to the positions they are about to begin.

“We emphasize that you need to take abreak and think back in order to plan for-ward. And that this time is not sitting downby the pool, it is active thinking, planningand reflecting,” Abels said.

Abels said the communities at Duke andUNC also benefit from having access to direc-tor-level World Bank officials. Faculty andstudents can attend guest lectures, brown-bag

lunches and other discussions to gain an in-sider’s perspective on what works and whatdoesn’t work in managing development. Inaddition, the World Bank officials who partic-ipate in the program often become contactsfor internship possibilities and resources foracademic research, Abels said.

Duke professors involved in the Mana-gers in Transition Program include FrancisLethem, Phyllis Pomerantz, Dennis Ron-dinelli and Tony Brown.

Program brings World Bankmanagers to Duke to reflect

Something Here

Reports urge private partnershipsfor successful nation buildingThe U.S. Department of State published two policy research reports byDuke Center for International Development Senior Research ScholarDennis A. Rondinelli. The two policy research papers review world-wide experience with attempts by international financial assistance or-ganizations and development agencies to strengthen public managementcapacity in countries recovering from internal violence and civil war.

The State Department’s U.S. Agency for International Development(USAID) commissioned Rondinelli to assess the effectiveness of usingindirect channels for enhancing management, such as public-privatepartnerships and other “parallel” organizational structures. Rondi-nelli, who joined DCID in 2005, has been a consultant to the StateDepartment and the USAID for more than 30 years.

His latest research reports focus on an aspect of nation buildingthat has become a high priority in U.S. foreign aid policy over the pasttwo decades. Rondinelli urges USAID to expand its assistance to post-conflict countries beyond conventional public administration reformsand to build capacity using the private sector and non-governmentorganizations. He emphasizes the need to enhance managerial skills ingovernment agencies to work with the private sector more effectively.

Both policy research reports are available online at USAID’sDevelopment Experience Clearinghouse.

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GLOBAL POLICY

While achieving peace in Colombiahas proved to be complex and dif-ficult, former Duke-UNC Rotary

World Peace Fellow Bautista Logioco knowsit’s worth the frequent setbacks. Logiocoworks as a peace-coordinating specialistfor the Mission to Sup-port the Peace Process inColombia (MAPP/OEA),a Colombian peacekeep-ing organization thatfacilitates projects fordisarmament by guerril-la military groups. Themission is guided by theOrganization of American States, whichpromotes democracy in the western hemi-sphere.

Logioco helps with negotiations betweenthe Colombian government and groups fromUnited Self-Defense Groups of Colombia(AUC), a Colombian paramilitary federa-tion. For years, the AUC has provoked bru-tal bloodshed and the exploitation of natu-ral resources and initiated a wave of terror-ism against the country’s infrastructure.

MAPP/OEA’s objective is to have the

AUC demobilize, disarm, and reintegrateinto society. Since peace negotiations beganin November 2003, there have been 27 cer-emonies at which more than 20,000 com-batants have been demobilized.

“This work means the possibility of con-tributing to saving lives and building peacein the region,” Logioco says. “I not only havea personal connection to my work but alsoto the people whose lives the Organizationof American States is trying to improvethrough the promotion of democracy andthe consolidation of peace.”

Logioco, a native of Argentina, studiedinternational development policy at theRotary Center for International Studies atDuke from 2002 to 2004, where he learnedthe link between development and conflict—training that, in a time of crisis, he foundespecially helpful.

“The Duke program was policy oriented,which helped me to carefully practice theo-ries I learned and apply them to Colombia’ssocial fabric of greed and grievance,” saysLogioco. “Social reconciliation is necessary,and thanks to Rotary, I hope to play a smallpart in achieving that.”

Duke Rotary alum on the front linein Colombia’s peace negotiations

MPP student Cheng Feng, right, speaks with Xing Hu (MPP ’05) about international careersduring one of the annual MPP career development workshops in Washington, D.C., in January.Hu, a senior “intrapreneur” for Ashoka, talked about her work with that nonprofit organization, aswell as her founding of Dream Corps. Other panelists were Emiliana Vegas (MPP ’93), educa-tion economist at the World Bank, who hosted the panel, Nan Tian (MPP ’00), financial analystwith IFC, and Kristi Ragan, a strategic advisor with Development Alternatives Inc.

Two join DCID teaching corpsDaniel Alvarez joins the Duke Center forInternational Development (DCID) as aresearch associate beginning in February. Hewill participate in technical assistance proj-ects, teaching and research. He has been aninstructor in the Tax Analysis and RevenueForecasting Program (TARF), formerly atHarvard University, since 1995, participatingin a variety of workshops conducted atHarvard, as well as overseas in Jordan,Ghana and Tanzania. During this period heparticipated in the elaboration of major casestudies and teaching notes, including theTARF course manual. He also participated inworkshops on Investment Appraisal andRisk Analysis held in India, Malaysia and atthe World Bank.

Alvarez currently serves as director forspecial projects at the Under-Secretariat ofRevenue of the Secretariat of Treasury ofMexico. He received a BA in accounting and amaster’s in public policy at the AutonomousTechnological Institute of Mexico (ITAM) andgraduated from the International TaxProgram (ITP) at Harvard Law School in 1995.

PIDP alumnus Harmawan Rubino Suganais beginning his second year as a researchassociate at DCID. Last year he served asDCID’s resident advisor in Kenya on a localdecentralization project following Professorof the Practice Roy Kelly’s departure for sim-ilar work in Cambodia. Sugana will return tothe United States to participate in technicalassistance projects, teaching and research.He began his work with the Public FinanceGroup at Harvard in 1991 on property taxreform in Indonesia. Since then, he hasworked on tax reform efforts in Thailand,Mexico, Nepal, Lithuania and Russia.

In Russia he was responsible for theanalysis, design, development and imple-mentation of a comprehensive property taxadministration management system. Hehelped the Lithuanian government identifyproblem areas in tax administration and inforecasting of personal and corporateincome tax revenues. Sugana also has beeninvolved in developing a value-added taxinformation management system (Nepal),1994, and in strategic planning on privatizingcustoms services (Mexico), 1995. He is a graduate of John F. Kennedy School ofGovernment at Harvard University as well as of DCID’s PIDP.

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seminars

Marc F. Bellemare, assistant professor of PPS andeconomics, presented a working paper at theDuke-UNC Applied Microeconomics seminar; theN.C. State University Department of Agriculturaland Resource Economics; and the NortheasternUniversities Development Consortium 2006 con-ference held at Cornell University.

Alma Blount, director of the Hart LeadershipProgram, made a presentation in November atHarvard University with a group of Duke facultyled by Vice Provost Robert Thompson about theinitial results of a longitudinal study on under-graduate education.

Charles Clotfelter, Z. Smith Reynolds Professorof PPS, made a presentation at “The Politics ofInclusion: Higher Education at a Crossroads”

conference in Chapel Hill on Sept. 12. At APPAMon Nov. 2 in Madison, Wisc., he presented apaper titled “Absent Teachers and their Effect onAchievement Gaps” with Helen Ladd and JacobVigdor, and on Nov. 18, he participated in theSouthern Economic Association meetings inCharleston, S.C.

Philip Cook, ITT/Terry Sanford Professor of PPS,was invited to speak on gun control policy at theConference of Mayors Against Illegal Guns inAtlanta Nov. 30. He also gave a seminar titled“Paying the Tab: The Case for Higher AlcoholTaxes” at the University of Chicago on Dec. 6.

Robert Cook-Deegan, research professor of PPS,was invited to make presentations at “A Com-munity Genomics Forum 2006: Finding the

Associate Professor Fritz Mayer introducesMPP student Emily Loney.

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Faculty News

Faculty PublicationsBarrett, C.B., Marc F. Bellemare and S. M. Osterloh. “Household-Level Livestock MarketingBehavior Among Northern Kenyan and SouthernEthiopian Pastoralists.” In Pastoral LivestockMarketing in Eastern Africa: Research and PolicyChallenges, eds. John G. McPeak and Peter D. Little.Rugby, United Kingdom: ITDG Publishing, 2006.

Blount, Alma. “Critical Reflection for PublicLife: How Reflective Practice Helps StudentsBecome Politically Engaged.” Journal of PoliticalScience Education 2.3: (2006) 271-83.

Clotfelter, Charles T. “Patron or Bully? The Roleof Foundations in Higher Education.” InReconnecting Education & Foundations: TurningGood Intentions into Educational Capital, eds. RayBacchetti and Thomas Ehrlich. San Francisco,Calif: Jossey-Bass., 2006.

Clotfelter, Charles T., Helen F. Ladd and JacobL.Vigdor. 2006. “Teacher-Student Matching andthe Assessment of Teacher Effectiveness.” Journalof Human Resources 41.4: (2006) 778-820.

Clotfetler, Charles T., Jacob L. Vigdor andHelen F. Ladd. “Federal Oversight, LocalControl, and the Specter of ‘Resegregation’ inSouthern Schools.” American Law and EconomicsReview 8.2 (2006): 347-89.

Cook, Philip J. and J. Ludwig. “Aiming for evi-dence-based gun policy.” Journal of Policy Analysisand Management 25.3 (2006): 691-735.

Cook, Philip J., ed. “Symposium on Deterrence:Editorial Introduction.” Criminology & PublicPolicy 5.3 (2006): 413-16.

Tofano, D., I.R. Wiechers and Robert Cook-Deegan.“Edwin Southern, DNA blotting, and MicroarrayTechnology: A Case Study of the Shifting Role ofPatents in Academic Molecular Biology.” Genomics,Society, and Policy Journal 2.2 (2006): 50-61.

Ginsburg G.S., M. Angrist and Robert Cook-Deegan. “Genomics and Medicine at a Cross-roads in Chernobyl.” Science 314 (2006): 62-3.

Caulfield, T., Robert Cook-Deegan, F.S. Kieff,and J.P. Walsh. “Evidence and Anecdotes: AnAnalysis of Human Gene PatentingControversies.” Nature Biotechnology 24.9 (2006):1091-94.

Shanawani, H., L.Dame, D. Schwartz, andRobert Cook-Deegan. “Non-Reporting andInconsistent Reporting of Race and Ethnicity inArticles that Claim Associations amongGenotype, Outcome, and Race or Ethnicity.”Journal of Medical Ethics 32 (2006): 724-28.

Pressman, L., R. Burgess, Robert Cook-Deegan,S.J. McCormack, I. Nami-Wolk, M. Soucy and L.Walters. “The Licensing of DNA Patents by U.S.Academic Institutions: An Empirical Survey.”Nature Biotechnology 24 (2006): 31-39.

Fleishman, Joel. The Foundation: A Great Ameri-can Secret—How Private Wealth is Changing theWorld. New York, N.Y.: Public Affairs Press, 2007.

Jentleson, Bruce W. “Yet Again: HumanitarianIntervention and the Challenges of ‘NeverAgain.’ ” In Leashing the Dogs of War: ConflictManagement in a Divided World, Chester Crocker,Fen Hampson and Pamela Aall, eds. Washington,D.C.: U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 2007.

—— Coercive Diplomacy: Scope and Limits in theContemporary World–Policy Analysis Brief.Washington, D.C.: The Stanley Foundation,2006.

—— Sanctions Against Iran: Key Issues. IranWhite Papers. Washington, D.C.: The CenturyFoundation, 2006.

Joseph, James A. “Redefining Accountability.”Foundation News 47.4 (2006) www.foundation-news.org/CME/article.cfm?ID=3732

Krishna, Anirudh, et al. 2006. “Fixing the Holein the Bucket: Household Poverty Dynamics inForty Communities of the Peruvian Andes.”Development and Change 37.5 (2006): 997-1021.

Krishna, Anirudh. “Poverty and DemocraticParticipation Reconsidered: Evidence from theLocal Level in India.” Comparative Politics 34.4(2006): 439-58.

—— “Pathways Out of and Into Poverty in 36Villages of Andhra Pradesh, India.” WorldDevelopment 34.2 (2006): 271-88.

Krishna, Anirudh, et al. “Escaping Poverty andBecoming Poor in 36 Villages of Central andWestern Uganda.” Journal of Development Studies42.2 (2006): 346-70.

Ladd, Helen and E. Fiske. “Racial Equity inEducation: How Far has South Africa Come?”Perspectives in Education 24 (2006): 95-108.

Rondinelli, Dennis A. “AdministrativeDecentralization. ” In Encyclopedia of Law &Society, David S. Clark, ed. Thousand Oaks, Calif:Sage Publications, 2006.

—— “Governments Serving People: TheChanging Role of Public Administration inDemocratic Governance.” In United Nations,Public Administration and Democratic Governance.New York, N.Y.: United Nations Department ofEconomic and Social Affairs, 2006.

Rondinelli, Dennis A. “GovernmentDecentralization and Economic Development:The Evolution of Concepts and Practices.” InComparative Public Administration: The EssentialReadings, Eric E. Otenyo and Nancy S. Lind, eds.Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier, 2006.

Roselle, Laura. Media and the Politics of Failure:Great Powers, Communications Strategies, andMilitary Defeats. New York, N.Y.: PalgraveMacmillan, 2006.

Vaupel, James W. and E. Loichinger.“Redistributing Work in Aging Europe.” Science312 (2006): 1911-13.

Vigdor, Jacob L. “Liquidity Constraints andHousing Prices: Theory and Evidence from theVA Mortgage Program.” Journal of PublicEconomics 90.8-9(2006): 1579-1600.

Vigdor, Jacob L. “Peer Effects in Neighborhoodsand Housing.” In Deviant Peer Influences inPrograms for Youth: Problems and Solutions. K.Dodge, T. Dishion, and J. Lansford, eds. NewYork, N.Y.: Guilford Press, 2006.

Genome,” hosted by UNC-Chapel Hill and Dukeon Sept. 16; the REVEAL Study InvestigatorMeeting Sept. 8–10; and the NIEHS-Office forHuman Research Protections in RTP on Sept. 26.

Fernando Fernholz, associate professor of thepractice of PPS, organized a fall workshop titled“Learning from Success: Bulgaria’s StunningRescue of its Local Government Finance System”in the DCID lecture series “RethinkingDevelopment Policy.”

Kristin Goss, assistant professor of PPS and polit-ical science, was invited by the Triangle chapter ofthe American Society for Public Administrationto speak about gun politics.

Bruce Jentleson, professor of PPS and politicalscience, presented at the Conference on Forceand Legitimacy in the Evolving InternationalSystem at the Brookings Institution in October.He joined the colloquium, “Academia and thePolicy World: Bridging the Gap,” at UC-Berkeleyon Nov. 14 and made a presentation at the“Enforcing International Norms: BringingDissenters Back into the Fold” conference inWashington, D.C., on Dec. 6. Jentleson made sev-eral press appearances, including one in NPR’s“On Point” on Oct. 11. He co-convened theConference on the Future of Biotechnology inInternational Politics in cooperation with theCouncil on Foreign Relations in New York onDec. 13, and he is consulting with the U.S.Holocaust Museum on a genocide preventioncurriculum for the State Department.

Ambassador James A. Joseph, professor of thepractice of PPS, delivered the public lecture,“Ethics and Diplomacy: What I Learned fromNelson Mandela,” at the Clinton School of PublicService, in Little Rock, Ark. He also gave theThird Millennium Lecture at the IndianaUniversity Center on Philanthropy; delivered thePresident’s Forum Lecture at Hobart and WilliamSmith Colleges on “Race and Reconciliation:Lessons from South Africa;” and served as theOpening Plenary Speaker at the Annual Meetingof the Neighborhood Funders Group of theCouncil on Foundations.

Roy Kelly, professor of the practice of PPS, gave apresentation at the 9th International Conferenceon Modernization of Property Taxation in KualaLumpur, Malaysia, in August. Kelly also taught athree-week course titled “Designing a FiscalDecentralization Strategy for Cambodia” at theEconomics and Financial Training Institute inPhnom Penh, Cambodia.

Anirudh Krishna, assistant professor of PPS andpolitical science, gave the inaugural Krishna RajMemorial Lecture on Contemporary Issues inHealth and Social Sciences, convened by theAnusandhan Trust, Tata Institute of SocialSciences, SNDT University, and BombayUniversity on Dec. 8 in Mumbai. He presentedpapers at the Workshop on Concepts andMethods for Analyzing Poverty Dynamics andChronic Poverty at the University of Manchesterin October; the Brookings Institution/FordFoundation Workshop on Asset-based

Approaches to Poverty Reduction in a GlobalizedContext in Washington, D.C., in June; and theWorkshop on Making Democracies Better atDelivering Services to the Poor in Stockholm,Germany, in April. Krishna also organized a DukeUniversity workshop on Poverty and Democracyand advised and trained the Government ofKenya to extend the Stages of Progress Method-ology for a countrywide poverty assessment.

Helen Ladd, Edgar T. Thompson professor ofPPS, made presentations at a charter school con-ference at Vanderbilt in September, the Instituteof Education in London in November, and theinaugural conference of the Society for Researchin Educational Effectiveness in Lansdowne, Va.,in December. Together with Charles Clotfelterand Jacob Vigdor, she made a presentation atOxford University in November and a UNC-Chapel Hill conference in October on high-pover-ty schooling. She presented “Reflections on Equity,Adequacy and Weighted Student Funding” at theannual APPAM conference in Madison, Wisc.,and “The Effects of Accountability on StudentAchievement,” a paper co-authored with DavidFiglio and commissioned by the U.S. Departmentof Education as part of its review of No Child LeftBehind, at the Urban Institute in September. Laddalso joined the expert panel on the CommunityDevelopment Grant Formula, sponsored inDecember by the National Academy of Sciencesand the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

Dennis A. Rondinelli, senior research scholar,prepared an economic competitiveness strategyfor Greater Bangkok with former DCID DirectorWilliam Ascher at the request of the BangkokMetropolitan Administration (BMA) in Thailand.The report, “Bangkok as a Regional Center:Strengthening Greater Bangkok as an EconomicHub in Asia,” was released on Dec. 15 by theBMA’s economic development corporation.

David Schanzer, visiting associate professor ofthe practice of PPS and director of the TriangleCenter of Terrorism and Homeland Security,organized a day-long program for journalists andpublic health officials titled “How Will AvianInfluenza Affect North Carolina: Communicatingthe Facts to the Public.” He also participated inthe Department of Homeland Security Sympo-sium, “Homeland Security 2015,” in Washington,D.C. At Duke, he made a presentation at the

Fuqua School of Business Health SectorManagement Program; participated in a paneldiscussion on “Reporting and National Security:Balancing Public Interests After 9/11;” and joineda faculty panel following the screening of “Roadto Guantanamo.”

Anthony So, senior research fellow of PPS anddirector of the Global Health and TechnologyProgram, made a presentation at an Open SocietyInstitute meeting in September in Antalya, Turkey.He also participated in the NIH’s PubMed CentralAdvisory Committee in Washington, D.C., inOctober; the Open Society Institute’s InformationProgram Sub-Board in Budapest in November;and the expert advisory group for the HealthAction International/World Health Organization’sMedicine Prices project in Cairo in December.

Jacob Vigdor, associate professor of PPS, made apresentation at the New York Census RegionalData Center annual conference in September. InNovember he made a presentation at theSouthern Economic Association Annual Meetingas well as the Russell Sage Foundation conferencein New York. He spoke at the Brown UniversityRace and Inequality workshop in October, and inDecember he presented “Fifty Million VotersCan’t Be Wrong: Economic Self-Interest andRedistributive Politics” at both the N.C. StateUniversity economics department and theUCLA-California Center for PopulationResearch. With Charles Clotfelter, ElizabethGlennie, and Helen Ladd, he presented “WouldHigher Salaries Keep Teachers in High-PovertySchools? Evidence from a Policy Intervention inNorth Carolina,” at the Stanford UniversityGraduate School of Education and “The WelfareEffects of Urban Decay and Revitalization,” atYale University economics department.

Jonathan Wiener, Perkins Professor of Law,Environmental Policy and PPS, presented“Institutional Response to Catastrophic Risk,” atthe University of Pennsylvania on Sept. 26. InFrance, he made presentations at the Universitéde Nanterre, Ambassade des États-Unis; and theUniversité de Strasbourg, all on Oct 23, as well asthe Cercle France-Amériques in Paris on Oct. 24.On Nov. 7 he presented “Legal Responses toGlobal Warming” at the University of Pennsylvania.He also presented at the Society for Risk AnalysisAnnual Meeting Dec. 3-5 in Baltimore.

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Jonathan B. Wiener,Perkins Professor of Lawand Professor ofEnvironmental Policy andPublic Policy Studies, waselected the next presi-dent of the international

Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) at the organiza-tion’s annual meeting Dec. 3-6 in Baltimore,

Md. He will serve as president-elect for oneyear, and assume the post of president begin-ning December 2007.

The SRA is an international professionalsociety whose approximately 2,000 memberscome from diverse sectors and disciplines,from toxicology to public policy and law.Wiener is the first law professor or lawyerelected president of the SRA.

Wiener elected to lead Society for Risk Analysis

Kudos

MPP NotesVerena Arnabal (’06) marriedBrian Hennessey on Sept. 16. Sheworks in New York City, conductingresearch for People for theAmerican Way, a nonprofit dedicat-ed to defending democracy.

Megan Burns (’05) was selected toparticipate in Leadership Develop-ment Initiative, a 9-month programdesigned to connect young profes-sionals to important issues inPittsburgh, Pa.

Eric Hoefer (’05) and his wife,Sarah, celebrated the birth of theirsecond child, Eric Joseph, on Aug.25. Eric is a senior product managerin the BioOncology franchise ofGenentech in San Francisco, Calif.

Andrea Reese (’05) married AdamStrait on Aug. 12. She is working atthe Connecticut Farmland Trust, astatewide nonprofit that works tokeep farmland in production.

Danielle Sass (’05) is engaged toPatrick Byrnett (’08) and planninga 2008 wedding.

Grace Boachie-Ansah (’04) mar-ried Kwame Kena on July 30.Joining them to celebrate wereclassmates Sara Vande Kappelle,Jim Huynh, Nora McArdle,Sandra Johnson, KatherineMarshall (PIPD ’04), MarissaArchibald (’05) and ElizabethReed (’07).

Megan Fotheringham (’04) spentthe past four months in Ghana on assignment as a public healthadvisor for the U.S. Agency inInternational Development focus-ing on the avian influenza virus.

Jesse Smallwood (’04) is an associ-ate with Williams & Connolly inWashington, D.C.

Robin Gelinas (’03) is engaged toAlbert Bossar and planning a June2007 wedding. She also was pro-moted to director of policy initia-tives for the Texas EducationAgency in Austin.

Lauren Hierl (’03) and ShaneHeath were married on Aug. 8 onSt. John. Joining them for a recep-tion in Connecticut were class-mates Nick Cornelisse, KevinHutchinson, Chloe Metz, CraigHarper, Jennifer Nevin, ChuckAnderson and Gustavo Flores-Macias.

Jenifer Hlavna Feaster (’03) andher husband, Brian, celebrated thebirth of their daughter, CaseyVirginia, on Nov. 18. Jen and herfamily live in Indianapolis, Ind.,where she works as senior associateat the Center for the Support ofFamilies.

Lee Cochran (’02) and his wife,Natalie, celebrated the birth oftheir fourth child, Sarah Clark, onNov. 6. Lee and his family live inCharlotte, N.C., where he works atthe Charlotte MecklenbergHousing Partnership.

Eric Sapp (’02), senior partner atCommon Good Strategies, writes ablog for the “Faithful Democrats”Web community, which offersresources and discussion forums toDemocrats who hope to bring bal-ance to the national discourse onfaith and politics. In October heappeared in a PBS segment onDemocrats and religion.

Laura Carter Whiteley (’02)and her husband, Sean, welcomedtheir second child, Carter Paul, onOct. 29. Laura and her family live in Boston, Mass.

Alexandra Kennaugh (’01) relo-cated to London, where her hus-band has been transferred. Alex will continue to work at NaturalResources Defense Council whereshe was formerly based in NewYork.

Sachin Agarwal (’00) and his wife,Shalini, welcomed their son,Amartya, on Oct. 16.

Chris Clark (’00) has a new posi-tion as the financial manager for theGlobal Development Program atthe Gates Foundation in Seattle,Wash. His wife, Jamie Strausz-Clark (’00), is a senior associate atPRR, a public affairs and socialissues consulting firm.

Ian Noetzel (’00) has moved toLondon, with a new position as anattorney with Mayer, Brown, Roweand Maw LLP.

Kristin Petrocine Pennington(’00) and her husband, Mark, cele-brated the birth of their daughter,Sonja Elizabeth, on Dec. 13.

Kim Zimmerman (’00) left herposition in U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson’soffice to become director of govern-ment affairs for Cephalon, a bio-pharmaceutical company in Frazier,Pa. Kim lives in Washington, D.C.

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Alumni News

PIDP alum aids children in SudanBy Elizabeth Gill

Idrissa Kamara, PIDP ’02, is applying the knowledge and skills hegained at the Sanford Institute to help children in southern Sudan.As program manager for Save the Children USA in the Upper Nileand Jonglei states, Kamara works in partnership with 14 localNGOs to improve primary health care.

“All the skills and knowledge I acquired in the Program inInternational Development Policy have come to benefit the peo-ple of South Sudan — especially children — who are beginning todiscover their full potential through primary health care pro-grams,” Kamara said. “Hitherto this had never happened in a moresustainable way in south Sudan.”

Kamara credits Duke Center for International Developmentand the PIDP for teaching him the skills in management, communi-ty development best practices, financial management and propos-al writing that he uses in his current position.

“Even the way the classes were organized brought aboutinformed, professional, academic and intellectual discussionswhich benefited me a lot and which I have now found a greatresource in my work.”

During his studies at Duke, Kamara interned with LutheranFamily Services in Raleigh. After graduation, he worked briefly fora U.K.-based international NGO called HelpAge International inDarfur. Before coming to Duke, he had worked as the assistant tothe budget director in the government offices of his home country,Sierra Leone.

“The friendships I created, the support I received from boththe faculty and staff, the public debates and discussions, theannual D.C. visits which introduced me to people that continue tobe helpful and resourceful to me, the opportunity to understandthe American culture and the cultures of other nations — all havepositively impacted me since I re-entered the working world,”Kamara said.

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Sekou Kaalund (’99) leads strate-gy, securities and acquisitions atCitigroup Securities & FundServices in Greenwich, Conn. Hisnegotiating tips were listed in theDecember 2006 issue of BlackEnterprise.

Cindy Siebert Kinkade (’99)works for EDAW, an internationalenvironmental consulting firmlocated in San Diego. She and herhusband, Charles, celebrated thebirth of their son, Ian, in June 2006.

Ben Marglin (’99) was promoted tosenior associate at Booz, Allen,Hamilton in Washington, D.C.

Susan Biles (’98) married MichaelNink on April 29 in Austin, Texas.

Heather Flodstrom (’98) receivedthe American Marshall MemorialFellowship, given by the GermanMarshall Fund of the United Statesto emerging leaders who will travelto Europe in 2007 to conducttransatlantic diplomacy. Heatherlives in Seattle where she works as aprogram officer for special projectsat the Gates Foundation.

Holly Barkely DePaul (’97) andher husband welcomed their secondson, Mark, in October. Holly is a senior consultant at CGI-AMS Inc.in Fairfax, Va.

Peter Brown (’97) and family welcomed daughter, Rachel Alexa,on Nov. 28.

Steven Elmore (’97) has a newposition on the Majority Staff of theU.S. House of Representatives’Committee on the Budget, focusingon veterans and internationalaffairs.

Timothy D. Johnson (’97) is onassignment from the FederalReserve Bank of New York as theEuro Portfolio Manager in theFinancial Markets Division of theDe Netherlandsche Bank N.V.

Kirk Odegard (’96) and his wife,Gretchen, welcomed their daughter,Anneliese Charlotte, on June 26,2006 in Basel, Switzerland, wherehe is on assignment from theFederal Reserve Board of Governorsin Washington, D.C.

Russell Rothman (’96) and hiswife, Alice, announced the birth oftheir second child, daughter Elena(Ellie) Mia, on Nov. 8.

Lynn-Anne Schow (’96) moved toNewburyport, Mass., where shetelecommutes for Houston law firm

Linn, Thurber, Arnold &Scrabanek LLP. She balances taxand trust work with caring for herthree small children.

Dave Sheldon (’96), after leavingthe Council for Excellence inGovernment and completing a longvacation in Europe, has joined SRATouchstone Consulting inWashington, D.C., a private firmwith government and non-profitclients.

Jennifer Hoffman (’94) left North Carolina’s Fiscal ResearchDepartment to accept a new posi-tion in the N.C. Office of StateBudget and Management, whereshe will lead the state’s efforts inresults-based budgeting.

Claudia Horwitz (’94) produced anew video titled “Exploring Libera-tion Spirituality: Growing a Move-ment of Spiritual Activism” as part ofher work at stone circles in Durham.

Dale Rhoda (’93) completed master’s degrees in both cognitive systems engineering and appliedstatistics in 2006 at Ohio StateUniversity. As a result of his wifeKara’s successful battle with breastcancer, he is now pursuing a PhD inpubic health at Ohio State.

Andy Cook (’92) left his positionin the Office of the Commissionerof the Internal Revenue Serviceand will join Smith Barney as afinancial advisor in Washington,D.C. Andy and his wife, MelissaYoung Cook (’92), live in Fairfax,Va.

Garrick Francis (’92) left ProgressEnergy for a new position as direc-tor of financial communicationswith CSX Corp. and has relocatedto Jacksonville, Fla., with his wife,Sheila, and children Ries, 5, andKaris, 1.

Janet Kroll (’91) and her husband,Michael Ytterberg, welcomed their daughter, Lucy, on April 26.Kroll continues to work at the Pew Charitable Trusts in thePlanning and Evaluation Unit inPhiladelphia, Pa.

Elana Varon (’91) was promoted toexecutive editor of CIO Magazine,where she manages contributedcolumns, edits features and writes ablog about executing innovation.Elana and her husband, AndyEschtruth (’91), live in Natick,Mass.

Ben Muskovitz (’90) left TSG for anew position as associate partner in

the government group at TheGallup Organization inWashington, D.C.

Janet Syme Piller (’90) has beenpromoted to chief administrativeofficer for the Poverty Reductionand Economic Management unit inthe office of the vice president onstrategy, policy and budget at theWorld Bank in Washington, D.C.

Mark D. Carlson (’88) has a newposition as chief medical officer andsenior vice president for clinicalaffairs with St. Jude Medical CMRDin Sylmar, Calif.

Krista Magaw (’81), executivedirector of the Tecumseh LandTrust, announces that the Trust hasreached a milestone of preservingover 10,000 acres in Clark andGreene Counties, located in Ohio.

Alumna Susan Biles (MPP ’98) married Michael Nink in Austin, Texas, on April 29, 2006 and shared thespecial day with fellow Duke grads, from left , Andy Haltzel (MBA ’98), Gregg Behr (JD/MPP ’00),Heather Flodstrom (MPP ’98), and Laura Haltzal (MPP ’98), as well as friend Azam Samanani.

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Feb. 12, 4 p.m.Rhodes Conference Room“Life as an Endangered Species: Reflections of aNewspaper Reporter.”Kevin Sack, national correspon-dent of the Atlanta Bureau, LosAngeles Times, talks about his expe-

rience as a modern-dayreporter. TheDeWitt WallaceCenter forMedia andDemocracy also will presentSack with theFutrell Award

for Excellence in the Field ofCommunications and Journalism.

Feb. 20-April 24, 5 p.m.The Charles Murphy ColloquiumThis series organized by AssociateProfessor Bob Korstad focuses oncivil rights in a variety of contexts.Speakers are: The Rev. JohnMendez, employment (Feb. 20);David Barton Smith, health care(March 7); Jack Boger, AdamStein and Julius Chambers, edu-cation (March 27); Julie Fernan-des, political engagement (April10); and Dr. Heather Thompson,criminal justice (April 24). Forinformation call Rachel Seidman,613-7315. All seminars begin at 5 p.m. at the Sanford Institute.Free, open to the public.

Feb. 21-April 11, 4:30-6:30 p.m.Rhodes Conference RoomFoundation Impact ResearchSeminar SeriesMatthew Bishop, chief businesswriter and American business edi-tor of The Economist and author of“The Business of Giving,” whichlooks at the revolution taking placein philanthropy speaks on Feb. 21.Additional speakers are: Ed Skloot,Surdna Foundation (Feb. 28); RipRapson, The Kresge Foundation(March 7); and Robert Crane,Jeht Foundation (April 11). Forinformation call Melynn Glusman,613-7432.

Feb. 21, 7:30 p.m.Page Auditorium Paul RusesabaginaThe 2007 Crown Lecture in Ethicspresents the real-life hero of HotelRwanda, Paul Rusesabagina, who

will discuss hisexperience dur-ing the Rwan-dan genocide of1994. Then ahotel managerin Rwanda,Rusesabaginafound the cour-age to shelter

over a thousand refugees from certain death. Since then, he pub-lished his biography, An OrdinaryMan, and founded the HotelRwanda Rusesabagina Foundation(HRRF).

March 1, Time and place TBASanford Distinguished LecturerShashi TharoorWith 30 years experience at theUnited Nations, Under-SecretaryGeneral for Communications andPublic Information Shashi Tharooroffers an informed perspective onthe changing nature of internation-al relations. In 2006, he launchedan unsuccessful bid to succeed Kofi Annan as U.N. Secretary-General. In his present capacity, heis accountable for enhancing boththe image and effectiveness of theorganization. He is a journalist, anauthor, a fellow at the University ofSouthern California Center onPublic Diplomacy, and holds a PhDfrom The Fletcher School of Lawand Diplomacy at Tufts University.

March 29, 3:30 p.m.Fleishman Commons “Will American SuperpowerHave a Second Chance?”Zbigniew Brzezinski, formerNational Security Adviser to Presi-

dent JimmyCarter, will lendhis perspectivebased on yearsof influence inthe field of U.S.foreign policy.Sponsored bythe Living His-tory Program at

the DeWitt Wallace Center forMedia and Democracy.

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