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SPOTLIGHT
 The Eire Society of Boston Honored Peace Negotiator Padraig O'Malley at the 2008 Gold Medal Dinner & Award Ceremony at the Omni Parker House Hotel, Boston on April 3, 2008.
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 Message from the Dean
Below you will find the third installment of our new newsletter from McCormack Graduate School, "MGS Update." There are 3 major components to the newsletter:
· Job opportunities for our students and alumni
· McCormack Graduate School events we hope you will find of interest
· Significant developments at the school.
This week I am pleased to announce that we have hired Dr. Shelley Metzenbaum as a Senior Research Fellow to help us organize and launch our new Center on Public Management. Prior to joining us, Shelley was a Visiting Professor and Senior Fellow at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, ran the Public Sector Performance Management Project at the Kennedy School, and directed the Environmental Compliance Consortium. She has served as Associate Administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for Regional Operations and State/Local Relations, Undersecretary of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, Director of Capital Budgeting for the Commonwealth, and Director of the City of Boston's Washington office.
With the MGS Update, we are trying to find the right balance between serving our students and alumni and communicating with all of our constituencies, while not boring you with too much stuff. We would very much appreciate your feedback and suggestions.
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Job Opportunities of Interest
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MGS Senior Fellow Nigel Hamilton and the UMASS Boston History Club Presents:The 12 American Caesars
From: Roosevelt to Bush
A Lecture held by Distinguished Biographer: Nigel Hamilton
Author of such titles as: Monty: The Man Behind the Legend; JFK, Reckless Youth; Bill Clinton, Mastering the Presidency; and Biography: A Brief History.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
McCormack Hall, Second Floor
Room 423, from 2:30 to 3:45 pm
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Political Economy and Public Policy Lecture Series: Progressive Income Taxation as a Tool for Economic Development
Prof. Christian Weller and Manita Rao (PPOL doctoral student) will be speaking on Progressive Income Taxation as a Tool for Economic Development
Thursday April 24
4:00PM-5:30PM
McCormack Hall, 3rd Fl. Rm. M3-415
How can progressive income taxation be linked to economic development for industrializing nations? This paper explores a possible solution to the dilemma that industrializing economies often find themselves in: trying to attract more capital into their economies from overseas while having to manage the growing economic and financial risks that often are associated with greater capital mobility.
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How Cancer Crossed the Color Lines: Race and Disease in America
John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies invites you to a public lecture featuring:
Dr. Keith Wailoo
the 2008 Robert C. Wood Visiting Professor
in Public and Urban Affairs
Monday, April 28, 2008
6:00-8:00PM
Old Faculty Club Lounge
11th Floor Healey Library
University of Massachusetts Boston
 Keith Wailoo is the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of History and Director of the Center for Race and Ethnicity at Rutgers University. Professor Wailoo also holds a joint appointment with the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers. He was recently elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine, one of four learned academies that advise the US government on matters of health and medicine. His research examines the cultural politics of disease in America and his books have earned accolades for addressing questions of racial justice and inequality in medicine and health care. Professor Wailoo's work focuses principally on health care politics and the ethnic and racial relations of medicine. His research sheds light on how scientific and technological approaches to health interact with politics, society, and culture to shape individual health experiences, disease disparities, and social responses to disease. His latest work, a co-edited volume (with Julie Livingston and Peter Guarnaccia), A Death Retold: the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship (University of North Carolina, 2006), explores a common theme: how scientific and technological understandings have interacted with health care politics, racial and ethnic relations, and cultural politics to inform responses to disease over time.
Direction to the UMASS Boston campus can be found at www.umb.edu. |
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The 3rd Annual Give US Your Poor Auction in Wayland, MA Please join us...
Thursday, May 1, 2008
7:00-9:30pm
Sandy Burr Country Club, in Wayland
We are honored to present a special live performance by Kyla Middleton, a 13 year-old formerly homeless singer and speaker and Michael Sullivan, both of whom appear on the recently released Give US Your Poor benefit music CD featuring formerly/currently homeless artists and celebrity musicians.
Wayland native Ted Wayman, executive producer at boston.tv and former CBS reporter, will be our Master of Ceremonies. Ted has graciously served as MC since this annual event started! |
Center for Democracy and Development Awarded $1.6 Million Grant
Erica White
The Center for Democracy and Development (CDD) has been awarded a $1.6 million grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for a three year project to improve the quality of justice in China through enhanced judicial education.
Edmund Beard, CDD Director and Senior Advisor in the UMass President's Office, is principal investigator. Erica White, Assistant Director of CDD, will serve as project manager. Adria Warren, a private attorney formerly with the American Bar Association, and retired Massachusetts Judge Peter Anderson (now a Visiting Fellow at CDD) will be project co-Directors. The Massachusetts Judges Conference, the private association of the State's judges, and the American Bar Association will play important roles in the project, which will focus on the three substantive areas of: (1) applying rules of evidence in Chinese court procedures and developing enhanced court management and utilization of pre-trial discovery; (2) improving capacity to implement mediation practices currently being discussed as China reforms the Administrative Litigation Law and Civil Procedure Law; and (3) improving access to Chinese courts through greater transparency of adjudication.
This large, new USAID project builds upon eight years of unique and highly successful U.S. State Department Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs supported rule of law programming in China by the Center for Democracy and Development and the Massachusetts Judges Conference.
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Appointments
The Center for Democracy and Development (CDD)
Michael Keating, Associate Director and Senior Fellow at the Center for Democracy and Development, has been named as a special consultant on a World Bank Mission in Liberia. Building on his previous work with the media sector in Liberia, Michael will assist the World Bank on a Development Communications strategy on behalf of the Ministry of Information as well as with other media related organizations. This project follows the successful CDD project in the Fall of 2007 which brought several leading Liberian journalists to Boston for a series of seminars and internships. |
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Welcome New Visiting Fellow Honorable R. Peter Anderson, (Ret.)
Judge Anderson will serve as co-Director of the USAID Enhanced Judicial Education in China project. He has participated in CDD/Massachusetts Judges Conference (MJC) rule of law programs in China, Mongolia, and the Slovak Republic, and was co-leader of the CDD/MJC 2003 and 2005 Mock Trial Programs in China. He has traveled independently to China several times and was key in developing the 2006 Beijing-to-Boston Program, which brought six Chinese judges to Boston for a unique three-month judicial internship program. In spring 2008, Judge Anderson will travel to Kunming China as Fulbright scholar. | |
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