The School of Public Policy at UMBC

PUBL students and faculty: Michele Berry, MPP, is a panelist for this event. We'd love to see you there!

Join us on Wednesday, October 23 at 4:30pm for an awesome alumni panel! Students are encouraged to attend, especially students in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Public Health at UMBC, The School of Public Policy at UMBC, the Global studies program, & the Department of Economics.

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Click below for details. https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/csss/events/133260

Attention PUBL faculty and students! Join us this afternoon at 4:30 pm in the AOK Library Gallery for a conversation on evidence-based policy making! Coffee and refreshments will be served at 4:30 and the talk will begin at 5pm.

Meet Ridwan Islam Sifat!

2024 Meet A Retriever—Ridwan Islam Sifat An International Doctoral Candidate In Public Policy Meet A Retriever: Ridwan Islam Sifat, an M.P.P. graduate student and doctoral candidate at UMBC’s School of Public Policy researching healthcare disparities among intersex individuals in the United States. Sifat joined UMBC as an international student after earning both a B.S. and M.S. in developm...

2024 Nancy Miller, Public Policy, Receives Multimillion 5-year Funding From The Social Security Administration To Further Research And Training In Retirement, Health, And Disability Research “The consortium aims to create a diverse pipeline of new scholars interested in SSA and its programs and to increase research interest in this area,” says Nancy Miller a professor of political science at UMBC. Miller has received a multimillion dollar cooperative agreement from the Social Securi...

Public Policy's Dr. Loren Henderson was featured on The Academic Minute to talk about her research on Black farmers' experience in light of systemic racism and COVID-19 challenges.

Black Farmers 2024 Academic Minute: Centering The Voices Of Black Farmers As a community, farmers in the United States often face challenges that are out of their control, such as drought, livestock disease, and global pandemics like COVID-19. For Black farmers, says Loren Henderson, associate professor of public policy, these obstacles are compounded by land theft, inade...

Public Policy Professor Jane Arnold Lincove and Ph.D alumna Dr. Catherine Mata have published a new working paper with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University.

In this working paper, the authors examine the impact of a Maryland state-wide ban on out-of-school suspensions for children in grades preK-2 on behavior.

The Effects of a Statewide Ban on School Suspensions | EdWorkingPapers This research uses the implementation of a school suspension ban in Maryland to test whether a top-down state-initiated ban on suspensions in early primary grades can influence school behavior regarding school discipline. Beginning in the fall of 2017, the State of Maryland banned the use of out-of-...

Public Policy Professor Loren Henderson was highlighted in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Academic Minute Podcast with her podcast episode "Centering The Voices of Black Farmers."

Loren Henderson, University of Maryland Baltimore County –… | AAC&U A VOICE AND A FORCE FOR LIBERAL EDUCATION. AAC&U advances the vitality and democratic purposes of undergraduate liberal education.

Congratulations to our alum, Dr. Josh Michael, who was elected president of the MD State Board of Education!

Maryland State Board of Education elects Josh Michael as new president The Maryland State Board of Education unanimously elected Josh Michael as its new president Tuesday.

Public Policy Ph.D. student Ridwan Islam Sifat has published a new co-authored paper in the Journal of Public Health Policy. The article examines the variance in food-based domestic violence and anemia prevalence in women residning in rural versus urban areas.

Read more here:

Food-based domestic violence and anemia among women in sexual unions in Nigeria: the effect of urbanization - Journal of Public Health Policy In 2019, 1.74 billion people worldwide had anemia. In Nigeria, women of reproductive age are the most affected. Domestic violence affects the anemia prevalence, but few studies have examined the influence of urbanization on women in heterosexual unions (currently married, and cohabiting between). Us...

Public Policy Professor Jane Arnold Lincove has published a new article in American Education Research Journal. The article "The Effects of Unified School Enrollment Systems on School Demographics and Outcomes: Evidence from New Orleans' Transition to a Centralized School Lottery" explores the impact of a Unified Enrollment system on racial segregation. Dr. Lincove examines a subset of charter schools in New Orleans as a case study.

Read the article:

The Effects of Unified School Enrollment Systems on School Demographics and Outcomes: Evidence From New Orleans’ Transition to a Centralized School Lottery - Jane Arnold Lincove, Jon Valant, 2024 Unified enrollment (UE) systems were designed to improve efficiency, equity, and transparency in school choice processes, but research has focused on efficiency...

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Next week, at the last Economics and Public Policy seminar of the semester:

Wednesday, May 8, Noon ET

“Gun Violence in Black and White: Evidence from Policy Reform in Missouri”

Featuring Morgan C. Williams, Jr., Department of Economics, Barnard College, Columbia University

Join via webex: https://umbc.webex.com/umbc/j.php?MTID=m44b7671ab7fbb1ad2b40aa957bfaa2df

This Wednesday 5/1 is Immigrant Appreciation Day!

A bunch of activities are planned from 9am – 5pm, so plenty of opportunities to join us in celebrating!

Click here for details: https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/lhfa/posts/140995

Congrats to Public Policy doctoral student Sunji Jangha for recieving the Teresa Lupinek Endowment Award at the 2024 UMBC Presidential Faculty & Staff Awards!

Sunji is also a UMBC employee, serving as Director of Pipeline Programs, Upward Bound Mathematics and Science Center, Graduate School, Office of Academic Opportunity Programs.

UMBC Presidential Faculty & Staff Awards 2023 President Valerie Sheares Ashby Invites You to Join Us for the Presidential Faculty and Staff Awards Ceremony Wednesday, May 1, 2024 University Center Ballroom 11:30 a.m. Community Lunch I 12 p.m. Awards Ceremony RSVP Here 2024 Awardees Event Program   2024 Awardees Presidential Teaching Professor ...

Next Tuesday on the Economics/Public Policy seminar series:

“Estimating the Value of a Disc Golf Course with Revealed and Stated Preferences”

Featuring Jimena González-Ramírez
Department of Economics and Finance, Manhattan College

Tuesday, April 23, noon - 1 pm ET

Join online here: https://umbc.webex.com/umbc/j.php?MTID=m6903bfb0a8b27194be4e084ec89e1df9

See the full lineup here: https://publicpolicy.umbc.edu/econpublicpolicyseminar/

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Bringing Global Change Down to Earth
An Earth Day Panel

Monday, April 22, 2024 · 12 - 1 PM
The Commons : Lower Flat Tuesdays

For most of us, managing greenhouse gas emissions and watching distant islands flood or glaciers melt are far beyond our reach. However, the pervasive reach of an environmental reckoning means we have local issues, with much for all of us to work on. This panel brings together scholars and community members to discuss multiple ways to understand climate work.

A panel event moderated by Public Policy's Professor Susan Sterett.

Panelists:

Chris Blume, Doctoral student, UMBC’s ICARE alumnus

Erle Ellis, Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Systems, UMBC

Yusuke Kuwayama, Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy at UMBC

Laura Todd, Senior Green Infrastructure Projects Manager, Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay

Prof. Emeritus John Rennie Short writes in The Conversation about congestion pricing in New York City and how toll plan is expected to improve traffic, air quality, and public transit.

New York City greenlights congestion pricing – here’s how this toll plan is expected to improve traffic, air quality and public transit One more reason not to drive into midtown Manhattan: Soon it will cost an extra $15 as New York City launches its long-debated congestion pricing system.

Coming up on the next Economics and Public Policy Seminar:

Tuesday, April 9 at noon

“How Does Data Access Shape Science? Evidence from the Impact of U.S. Census’s Research Data Centers on Economics Research”

Featuring Matteo Tranchero, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

See the full line up and join online: https://publicpolicy.umbc.edu/econpublicpolicyseminar/

Public Policy Professor Emeritus John Rennie Short has published a new book that explores the factors underlying the January 6, 2021 invasion of the U.S. Capitol, and how the related political and social climate ties into the 2024 presidential election.

The book is available here:

Insurrection: What the January 6 Assault on the Capitol Reveals about America and Democracy Insurrection: What the January 6 Assault on the Capitol Reveals about America and Democracy

UMBC's Spring Break is next week, and when we return to campus, we'll kick off the second part of the semester with the next Social Science Forum, cosponsored by Public Policy!

Mark your calendars for the next SSF lecture on March 26th - organized by the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Public Health at UMBC
https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/csss/events/127606

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Public Policy Professor Jane Lincove has been awarded a new grant by the US Dept. of Education's Institute of Education Sciences under the Using Longitudinal Data to Support State Education Policymaking competition.

Through this grant program, the National Center for Education Research supports state agencies’ use of their state’s education longitudinal data systems (SLDS) to provide evidence for their own program and policy decisions, and those of their local education agencies.

Dr. Lincove's project will use Maryland's SLDS to strengthen and diversify the teacher pipeline, and make the necessary training needed to become a teacher more accessible and affordable for Maryland students.

Congrats to Dr. Lincove and her co-investigators!

NCER announces FY 2024 Awards The National Center for Education Research (NCER) supports rigorous, scientifically based research that addresses the nation's most pressing education needs, from early childhood to postgraduate studies. NCER made these awards for FY 2024.

In 2023, Public Policy Professors Mir Usman Ali and Lauren Edwards worked with the Baltimore County Work Group on Equitable Policing to perform a study on racial disparities in traffic stops. In this study, they analyzed traffic stops in Baltimore County to determine if there was evidence of racial bias, and also if there such racial bias in post-stop actions (searches, warnings, citations, and arrests).

The report was published in December 2023.

Learn more about the working group here: https://www.baltimorecountymd.gov/boards-commissions/executive/equitable-policing-work-group

See the full report here:https://resources.baltimorecountymd.gov/Documents/Executive/equitablepolicingworkgroup/trafficstopdeepdivereport.pdf

Equitable Policing Work Group - Baltimore County The Baltimore County Work Group on Equitable Policing will examine policing policies and practices and make recommendations for ensuring equitable policing in Baltimore County.

Mark your calendars for the next SSF lecture on March 26th - organized by the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Public Health at UMBC
https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/csss/events/127606