Alumni
Petra Porter
Education: M.S. Public Health, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2008 Research Interest: Petra’s current research involves how do organizational characteristics of hospitals influence the use of life sustaining technology and how do treatment decisions affect health care costs in return. In addressing these questions, the study contributes to our understanding of the factors that […]
Dustin C Read
When did you graduate? Summer 2008 Dustin C. Read, PhD/JD, serves as an Assistant Professor of Property Management and Real Estate at Virginia Tech where he holds the William and Mary Alice Park Junior Faculty Fellowship in the Program in Real Estate. His research and teaching interests include land use policy, public-private partnerships, and housing […]
Hazel Marie Sarmiento
Education: PhD, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, May 2013 Research Interest: Hazel’s research focuses on Sustainable Transportation; Sustainable Development; Public Transit; Urban Planning and Regional Policy; Public Finance and Budgeting. When did you graduate? May 2013 Current Job: Research Associate, Center for Transportation Policy Studies Ph.D. Expected: May 2013 Current Research: Light rail transit […]
Olga Smirnova
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science East Carolina University Teaching Areas: Statistics, Public Budgeting and Finance, Economic Development Research Interests: Performance Management, Contracting Out, Green Economy, Green Transportation Innovations Dissertation: “Does Government Structure Really Matter? A Comparison of Efficiency and Effectiveness of Special Purpose versus General Purpose Government Transit Operations.” When did you graduate? Summer […]
Galen H. Smith III
When did you graduate? Summer 2010 What are your best memories about being a graduate student in the PPOL graduate program? Walking at Commencement; the sense of accomplishment associated with defending the dissertation; attending health care conferences with classmates; recognition associated with personal accomplishments (i.e., Student Paper awards); sharing in the successes of my classmates. […]
