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By Tara Gomez, M.A. student in the Department of Communication Studies How can a doctoral degree in Public Policy advance a career? Just ask Dr. Stephany De Scisciolo, who earned her doctorate from UNC Charlotte in 2014. She serves as the Vice President of Knowledge, Impact, & Strategy at Enterprise Community Partners, Inc., a nonprofit […]

By Tara Gomez, M.A. student in the Department of Communication Studies at UNC Charlotte On March 14, Public Policy Ph.D. student Chuck McShane defended his dissertation titled “Economic Prosperity, Population Growth and Local Spending in America’s Micropolitan Areas, 2002-2014.” Although people might expect isolated cities to have lower income growth than small towns neighboring major […]

Iván Flores Martínez (UNC Charlotte Public Policy student and Research Assistant for the Drug Policy Program, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas) and Daniel Zizumbo-Colunga (Assistant Professor of Drug Policy, Centro de Investigación y Docencia, and Research Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University) recently wrote an article featured in “The Conversation”, an online nonprofit academic journalism organization. […]

Three Minute Thesis is professional international research communication competition where participants are challenged to clearly and engagingly communicate their research to a non-specialist audience in just 3 minutes with one, static, slide. Public Policy student Christina Danis, advanced to the final competition, which was held on Friday, November 9 from 3:00-5:00pm, presenting her thesis on […]

The Public Policy Program is accepting applications for the Fall 2019 Ph.D. Student Cohort. Join our faculty and students who study a range of important policy issues in the areas of education, elections, social and economic inequality, health, governance, crime, security, justice, economic development, transportation, energy, urban and regional development. Faculty and students also study […]

The event Talking Policy in the Queen City: Managing Conventions, Elections, and Mobilizing Voters was an evening of community engagement and networking with two short panels of thought-provoking flash talks and panel discussions with time for networking and conversation after each. The first panel explored the importance of public perceptions of event management, and the […]

Flu season is upon us once again. Taking the necessary precautions, such as getting the proper immunizations, can help prevent the spread of this dangerous — and at times deadly — disease. This October marked the 100th anniversary of the Influenza Epidemic (Spanish Flu) of 1918 in North Carolina, and we can learn lessons from […]

Zachary Mohr, Martha Kropf, JoEllen Pope, Mary Jo Shepherd, and Madison Esterle recently presented a paper at the 2018 ESRA conference entitled, “Election Administration Spending in Local Election Jurisdictions: Results from a Nationwide Data Collection Project.” In an article by the MIT Election Data and Science Lab, a group which ” helps highlight new research […]

The Public Policy Program is delighted to announce that Dr. Eleonora Davalos has won the Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Award for 2018! Her dissertation is entitled “Strategies, Incentives, and Decisions: Illicit Crop Control in Colombia.” The judges noted that her topic was rarely studied, her findings were surprising, and the work “adds a great deal to […]

The North Carolina Political Science Association, congratulates Faith Butta as the 2018 winner of the Fidelity Investments Best Graduate Paper Award for her paper titled “Life after the uniform: Women veterans and voter turnout in presidential elections” presented in Rock Hill, South Carolina, in March. The award was presented during the 2018 conference to be […]