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Posts Tagged ‘SPIA’
May 2019
How to help public officials avoid creating monsters
By: Shelby Steuart What does Godzilla have to do with predicting how close we are to nuclear war? According to Dr. Jeff Berejikian, who recently presented on this topic at
May 2019
Would you rather get $50 today or $100 next year?
By: Shelby Steuart New findings from SPIA Professor W. David Bradford elaborate on a well-known economic principle. Time discounting, when a person cares less about a future consequence than a
Mar 2019
Emerging Leaders Program brings one student closer to his dream job
By: Shelby Steuart Justin Nixon has always felt a calling to help people. As a criminal justice major at the University of Georgia, his career goal was to connect communities
Jan 2019
SPIA professor awarded prestigious fellowship
By: Shelby Steuart Assistant Professor Dr. Lihi Ben Shitrit was recently awarded a Luce/ACLS Fellowship in Religion, Journalism, and International Affairs. According to the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
Jan 2019
New study shows SPIA professors among the most cited in their fields
By: Shelby Steuart Cambridge Press recently published a study completed by two researchers at the University of California, Irvine, ranking the 4,089 currently tenured or tenure-track political science faculty in
Nov 2018
New Faculty Friday: Q&A with Geoffrey Sheagley
Geoffrey Sheagley received his PhD from the University of Minnesota where he has since been an Assistant Professor of Political Science. His research and teaching focuses on political behavior, public
Nov 2018
Visiting Speaker Discusses Education and Economic Inequality in Korea and the U.S.
Dr. Hyun-A Kim is a Senior Economist at the Korea Institute of Public Finance (KIPF). Last week she visited SPIA to give a talk on how public policy can help
Oct 2018
Allie Kelly visits SPIA and the School of Environment and Design
Allie Kelly, UGA Alumna and The Ray Executive Director, visited SPIA and the School of Environmental Design to discuss innovations in transportation. Kelly’s talk illustrated the importance of connecting technological
Oct 2018
New Faculty Friday: Q&A with Dr. Mollie Cohen
SPIA is excited to introduce Mollie Cohen. Mollie Cohen received her PhD in Political Science from Vanderbilt University. From 2017-2018, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Latin American
