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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 […]

Public Policy Ph.D. students were active researchers this past year, presenting their work at regional and national meetings on a wide range of topics. JoEllen Pope and Kristine Canales were invited to present their collaborative research “Recovering Public Opinions from Social Media Data in the Wake of Catastrophic Natural Disasters: Blame and Hurricane Sandy” at […]