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of approval on May 9, theDuke University Board ofTrustees established theSanford School of PublicPolicy. The change will beeffective on July 1, 2009. It’s a proud moment for thestudents, faculty, staff andalum ni of the institutionthat Terry Sanford startedback in 1971, as well as a testament to its growth,maturation, success and extraordinary promise.

For some, this announcement may elicit araised eyebrow and a puzzled comment: “Won - der ful! But wait … I thought Sanford was a school.”

Indeed, the popular U.S. News & WorldReport rankings of graduate programs groupSanford alongside other top-10 public policy

schools. With our undergraduate, master’s andPhD degree programs; our distinguished faculty;our accomplished, influential alumni; and ourwide assortment of interdisciplinary researchcenters, the confusion is understandable. Sanfordwas already a complex organization, engaged allover the world and active on many levels.Nevertheless, the “school” designation hasn’tbeen official until now.

So, aside from the name, what’s different?By itself, the name change doesn’t mean

much. What means a great deal, however, is thetransformative power this change brings. AsDuke’s tenth school, Sanford has freedom to bemore entrepreneurial in pursuing the goals I’veoutlined in this column over the last 24 months.

Our goals include growing our faculty in a setof key policy areas; maintaining class sizes simi-lar to today’s in order to enhance (Please see page 2)

Susan Tifft, the PattersonProfessor of the Practice ofJournalism and Public Policy,displays student signatures in a commemorative bookpresented to her during afarewell dinner on March 23.An undergraduate teachingaward has been establishedin Tifft’s honor. The DeWittWallace Center for Mediaand Democracy namedPhilip Bennett, formermanaging editor of TheWashington Post, to fill thePatterson Chair, while Postdatabase editor SarahCohen will take over theKnight Chair in the fall. (See stories, pages 4-5.)

Teaching Award Named for Tifft, Wash Post Veterans Join DeWitt

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8 / James Wins RWJF Award

9 / Patenting Genetic Tests

13 / Health Care in India

14 / Women as Leaders

15 / Faculty Kudos

18 / Alumni News

Trustees Approve Creation of Sanford School

Faculty TeamExaminesLife AfterTest Scores

D o high-stakes tests indi-cate anything except theability to do well on tests?

Twelve Sanford faculty will cor-relate test scores with other datato examine outcomes for youngadults in North Carolina. Theproject will include a researchworkshop series and a confer-ence in the fall of 2010. Thework is backed by a major grantfrom the Smith RichardsonFoundation. (See story, page 6.)

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GraduationThe 2009 graduation ceremonies forthe Sanford Institute of Public Policy

honored 158 undergraduates, 43 Master of Public Policy graduates,and 42 Program in International

DevelopmentPolicy master’s

graduates from 19 countries. Please see story, photos,pages 10-11.

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Fairfax Brings Concrete Change to D.C. NeighborhoodBy Jackie Ogburn

S anford Board of Visitorsmember Justin Fairfax(PPS ’00) has a long and

impressive list of leadership andpublic service positions on hisresume. As an undergraduate atDuke, he was president of theNational Panhellenic Council andAlpha Phi Alpha fraternity andwas chosen as the graduationspeaker for his PPS class.

After graduation, he served asa Young Trustee on Duke’s Boardof Trustees, was Tipper Gore’sbriefing coordinator at the 2000Gore/Lieberman presidential cam-paign headquarters in Nashville,and worked as Sen. John Edward’s personalassistant during his 2004 vice presidentialcampaign.

He earned a law degree from ColumbiaUniversity where he was selected as a mem-ber of the Columbia Law Review and clerkedfor U.S. District Court Judge Gerald BruceLee. Now he is a senior associate in litigationat WilmerHale in Washington, D.C.

But the place where Fairfax perhaps mostbrought his public policy skills to bear was onthat most clichéd task of local government:fixing potholes. Actually, it was more thanjust potholes; it was 30,000 feet of new pav -ing on alleys and streets of crumbling brick,scattered gravel and broken asphalt in the

neighborhood where hegrew up.

Between the end ofthe Gore campaign andthe time that Fairfaxenrolled in law school,Fairfax was working asa legislative correspon-dent in Edwards’ U.S.Senate office on Cap i -tol Hill. He movedback in with his motherin the Eckington areaof northeast Washing -ton, D.C.

“ The p lace hadissues,” he said, “thecommon urban prob-lems of decay, disrepair

and drugs.” He joined the neighborhoodcivic association, which at that time was ahandful of people, mostly seniors, meeting inthe local church basement.

Fairfax teamed up with a childhood friendfrom the neighborhood, Kenyan McDuffie,and began pulling other people into theorganization through neighborhood events,such as clean-up days. Soon, young parentsand newer residents were involved. Fairfaxthought the broken state of the streets wasthe perfect metaphor for the state of theneighborhood and a good place to start toturn things around.

At first, people were understandably skep-tical that anything would change, Fairfax

said, because the area had been neglected fordecades.

“The only things more often and morebadly broken than the streets in the neigh-borhood were past promises to fix them,” hesaid. However, Fairfax remained optimistic,engaged the community, developed a publicpolicy strategy and pushed forward. Even -tually, the entire neighborhood bought intothis vision, and people became excited aboutthe possibility of helping to literally lay thefoundation for a brighter future for theirbeleaguered, but beloved, neighborhood.

“I used my PPS training to navigate thecity bureaucracy,” he said. There was initialresistance from the city, but Fairfax’s groupgot a commitment from the mayor’s officeand the project became a line item in the citybudget.

Fairfax left for law school in 2002, and bythe time he returned to DC in 2005 a largeswath of the streets were paved. “They havebeen a catalyst for improvement in the neigh-borhood,” he said. “They are literally theground we stand on.”

His aunt still lives in the neighborhood, asdoes his mother, who has since remodeledher house. Some former residents who hadleft returned, including McDuffie, and othershave improved their properties. The experi-ence was further proof to Fairfax that every-body can make a lasting, positive differencein the lives of individuals and communities.

“Wherever you are is your public policyrealm,” he says.

mentoring relationships between students andfaculty; increasing student aid; and expandingthe Sanford School’s role in the life of DukeUniversity. Our mission is no less than creatingprofound change — in each student, in institu-tions, and in policies that affect the humancondition.

This transition happens to fall during one ofthe stormiest times in our nation’s economichistory. But rather than relinquish our ambitionsin this era of shrinking budgets, we’re carefullymanaging our commitments and adjusting thepace with which we pursue our goals.

Despite the financial turmoil, in a little lessthan three years the school raised $36.6 mil-

lion in cash and pledges. Response to our newannual fund, particularly from our loyal alum-ni, has been very encouraging and is alreadyenhancing the educational experience for ourstudents. We’ve added energetic and talentedfaculty in global health, environmental policyand social policy, and more will join us this fall.

When Terry Sanford founded the Institute ofPolicy Science and Public Affairs (as it was thenknown) he envisioned it as a key element of theuniversity’s mission of service. Today, Duke Uni -versity’s overarching goal of “putting knowl-edge at the service of society” is an extension ofSanford’s goal of service. The recent election ofBarack Obama, it is fair to say, has given impor-tant new life to that mission.

The opportunities offered by today’s chal-

lenges to a new generation of students—stu-dent inspired by the president’s leadership,undergirded by a newfound commitment topublic service and facilitated by the facultyand resources of Duke University—are rea-sons to be excited about the future, and hope-ful for it. We are seizing the moment to helprealize the aspirations of our students throughthe creation of a school not only worthy ofthem, but also up to the challenges they face.

Best regards, Bruce Kuniholm

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By John Massie

Duke student veteranshave been relativelyun known on cam-

pus — but that’s changingthanks to Michael McIner -ney (MPP ’09), who recent-ly started the Student Vet er -an’s Association on campus.

The organization, alsocalled DukeVets (www.dukevets.org), aims toidentify the number of undergraduate andgraduate student veterans on campus, developstudent veteran support services and providestudent veterans with a chance to network.

“Duke seemed very open to doing anythingthey could for us as a population,” said McIner -ney, a U.S. Army Major on active duty whoplans to teach at West Point after obtaining hisdegree. “But they didn't know how to identifyus or know what we wanted or needed.”

One of DukeVets’ initial projects is tomake Duke more financially accessible toveterans by lobbying the university to takepart in the Yellow Ribbon Program. Underthe 2008 Post-9/11 GI Bill, the governmentwill provide veterans with money equivalentto the tuition cost of the most expensive public school in the state. Duke PresidentBrodhead has expressed interest in the pro-

gram, which begins accept-ing applications from insti -tutional partners on June 1.If all goes as planned, Dukemay offer up to 40 scholar -hips for veterans startingnext fall, McInerney said.

Vice President for Stu -dent Affairs Larry Moneta,who worked closely withMcInerney to form Duke -

Vets, said one of the inspirations for startingthe group was the success of the picnic host-ed for Duke veterans and military familieslast fall before the Duke-Navy football game.More than 100 people attended the event.Another reason McInerney started the groupwas to create an unofficial way for veteransto meet and talk.

“I noticed when I [started the] program,a lot of students haven’t even met anyone inthe military. A lot of times there are experi-ences that are easier to talk about with othervets than with everyone you go to schoolwith every day,” he said.

McInerney was born in Germany andgrew up in a military family. He earned hisdegree in economics at West Point in 1999and has worked in Germany, Macedonia,California and Iraq.A version of this article appeared in The Chronicle.

MPP Student Starts DukeVets

Sanford Briefs Dual Degree Offered by PIDP • TheMaster’s Program in International Develop -ment Policy and Duke Law School now offer adual degree. Students in the three-year pro-gram study concepts including rule of law,rights-based approaches to development, and good governance. Students seeking theJD/MIDP enter the Law School in June withother dual-degree students and must complete72 credits of law school course work, 24 creditsof PIDP coursework and six credits of PIDPungraded research.

Scholarships Awarded • The Duke Centerfor International Development has establisheda new scholarship in honor of Oliver Oldman,who for many years directed and nurtured theInternational Taxation Program (ITP) while itwas hosted at Harvard Law School. The OliverOldman Memorial Scholarship will be giveneach academic year to a student enrolled inthe one-year master’s Program in International

Development Policy with a specialization ininternational taxation. The first scholarshipwas awarded to two people: AbdelmonemLofty Mohamed of Egypt and Nuria TolsaCaballero of Spain.

CCFP Offers Seminar for N.C. LegislatorsFaculty and research scholars with the Centerfor Child and Family Policy presented theannual Family Impact Seminar in Raleigh onFeb. 23. Legislators and state agency repre -sentatives attended presentations about“Evidence-based Policy: Strategies for Improv -ing Outcomes and Accountability.” The semi-nar addressed how to develop programs thatwork and how this approach to policy canimprove outcomes and lower costs. JenniOwen, director of policy initiatives for CCFP,organized the seminar and created the briefingreport, which was distributed to legislators andother stakeholders across the state.

Rogerson Leads Internet Speech ProjectThe Internet provides a new public space,where posting can be anonymous and reputa-

tions trashed with a mouse click. Ken Rogerson,lecturer in PPS and director of undergraduatestudies, is leading the first year of a three-yearinterdisciplinary project called “Online Dis -course: Free Speech, Civility and Accountability.”

“People need to be able to say what theyneed to say without fear of reprisal, but shouldcivility be legislated? How do we hold peopleaccountable online?” Rogerson said. As part ofthe project, Rogerson brought guest speakerDaniel Solove, George Washington Universitylaw professor and author of The Future ofReputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on theInternet, to Sanford on April 3.

PPS Student Gives Sermon • GregoryMorrison, a sophomore PPS and history major,was selected as the 2009 student preacher inDuke Chapel on Feb. 22. “I am both thrilled andhumbled to have the opportunity to preach inDuke Chapel,” said Morrison. “Having a stu-dent preacher is a great ministry of the Chapeland really allows the undergraduates to con-nect with the congregation and vice versa.”

Two New ProgramsOffer MPP StudentsInternational StudyTwo new partnerships will give MPP studentsmore opportunities to gain internationalexperience by studying overseas.

The United Nations Institute for Trainingand Research (UNITAR) has joined with theDuke Program in Global Policy and Gover -nance, a summer program in Geneva,Switzerland, to offer a course on human rightsand humanitarian assistance. The course isone of four in which students learn from lead-ing global policymakers while working ininternships at international agencies, NGOsand government delegations.

“It is real testament to the growing reputa-tion of our program in the international policycommunity that UNITAR would choose topartner with us,” said Director of GraduateStudies Frederick “Fritz” Mayer.

In addition, a new exchange program withthe Hertie School of Governance in Berlin willallow a Sanford MPP student to spend his orher third semester in Berlin, and will bring aHertie School MPP student here.

“This is a great opportunity for studentsinterested in international policy,” saidMayer. “Berlin is a terrific location for anyoneinterested in European issues or global policyand governance.”


Hart Leadership: Summer Study on Four ContinentsBy Leslie Griffith

Twenty students have re -ceived grants for summercommunity-based re -

search projects with ServiceOpportunities in Leadership(SOL). SOL, a core element ofthe Hart Leadership Program,is an intensive 12-month lead-ership program that combines academiccoursework and community-based researchwith mentoring and leadership development.

“These ambitious students have designedsome of the most fascinating research proj-ects I have seen in the history of the SOLprogram,” said Alma Blount, director of theHart Leadership Program. “What impressesme is their eagerness to serve their communi-ty partners, and to be as creative and flexibleas possible in facing the challenges that cometheir way.”

The SOL students take a spring prepara-tion course before launching their summer

research projects. The group will be spreadacross four continents, from Asheville, N.C., toAccra, Ghana. Upon their return to Duke, thestudents will take Blount’s capstone seminar.

The students’ research projects include arange of topics from HIV/AIDS education inHonduras to civic e n gagement in Bosnia andfamilies in transitional housing in Texas.

Polly Kang, a PPS major with a minor ineconomics, will work with Neuginsunwon(Young Buddhist Association) in Seoul, SouthKorea. She will assess how the program influ-ences youth perspectives on Buddhism andyouth value systems. Kang has walked the

Camino de San ti ago in Spain and has workedwith the Young Buddhist Associa tion andU.S. Embassy on several service projects inSouth Korea.

Nandish Shah (PPS ’10) will partner withCrews n’ Health Mobile in Phoenix, Ariz., thissummer to assess the organization’s efforts toimplement nutrition education for homelessand low-in come families.

Shah of Char lotte, N.C., is pursuing a cer-tificate in health policy. Re cently, he workedwith Duke peers to create and teach a nutri-tion curriculum for middle school students atDurham School of the Arts.

Caitlin (Cat) Crump ler (PPS ’10) ofCharlottesville, Va., will work with the BaldHead Island Conservancy in North Carolinato assess the effectiveness of its environmen-tal education ini tiative.

She is a certified rescue diver and hasconducted research with Project AWARE, acoral reef awareness program.

A complete listing of SOL student projectsis available online: www.pubpol.duke.edu/sol

Washington Post Journalists to Join Sanford Faculty

Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalistshave been appointed to chairs in theDeWitt Wallace Center for Media and

Democracy and will begin teaching in the fall.The appointments will enhance the center’sresearch and teaching initiatives that focuson new models for news in the Internet age.

Philip Bennett, who in four years as man-aging editor of The Washington Post helped lead the newspaper to 10 Pulitzer Prizes, wasnamed the new Eugene C. Patterson Pro fes sorof the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy.

Sarah Cohen, an expert on computer-assisted investigative journalism, was appoint-ed Knight Professor of the Practice of Jour nal -ism and Public Policy. Cohen, database editorat The Washington Post since 1999, will leadDWC’s computational journalism initiative.

“I am absolutely delighted at Philip Ben -nett’s decision to come to Duke and join thefaculty at the school of public policy,” saidSanford Institute Director Bruce Kuniholm.“He brings a wealth of experience on the in -ternational front, and his peers were glowingabout his extraordinary creativity as a thinkerand his skills as a mentor.”

Cohen’s expertise is an ideal match forDeWitt’s interest in developing the emergingfield of computational journalism, said DWCDirector James T. Hamilton.

“Watchdog journalism is increasingly atrisk in the media marketplace,” he said. “Com -pu tational journalism holds the promise ofcombining traditional public records anddatabase work with new methods and toolsfrom other disciplines to help renew watch-dog coverage.”

In addition to teaching undergraduatecourses, Cohen will help lead the develop-ment of open-source reporting tools that willhelp lower the costs to journalists of discover-ing and researching stories, Hamilton said.

Bennett joined The Post in 1997 as deputynational editor, became assistant managingeditor for foreign news in 1999, overseeing20 international bureaus, and rose to manag-ing editor in 2005.

During his tenure as managing editor,The Post investigated secret CIA prisonsabroad and the wide influence of Vice Presi -dent Dick Cheney. He also helped lead theteam whose reporting on shoddy care of vet-erans at Walter Reed Army Hospital wonthe coveted Pulitzer Prize for Public Servicein 2008. It was one of six Pulitzers The Postwon last year.

The Patterson Chair, endowed by a giftfrom the Poynter Fund, is named in honor ofthe former editor-in-chief and chief execu-tive officer of The St. Petersburg Times. It has

been occupied since 1998 by former Timemagazine writer, editor and book author SusanTifft, who is stepping down at the end of thisacademic year.

Cohen shared the Pulitzer Prize for Inves -tigative Reporting in 2002 for The Post series,“The District’s Lost Children,” which un -covered failures by child welfare agencies thatcontributed to dozens of children’s deaths. In 2007, she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prizein Public Service for her role in “HarvestingCash,” a series of more than 20 articles thatspotlighted abuses of the U.S. farm subsidysystem.

She also shared the 2009 Goldsmith Awardfor Investigative Reporting. She has taughtjournalism courses at the University of Mary - land and is the author of Numbers in the News - room: Using Math and Statistics in News.

Cohen earned her undergraduate degreein economics at the University of North Caro -lina at Chapel Hill, and began her career as an econ omist at the U.S. Bureau of LaborStatistics.

The Knight Chair at Duke was estab-lished in 1990 by a gift from the Knight Foun -dation. Washington Post columnist WilliamRaspberry held the post from 1995 until hisretirement in June 2008.

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Awards Honor Alumnaand Students forJournalistic Excellence

Alumna KarenBlumenthal (‘81)accepts the FutrellAward from JayHamilton, director ofthe DeWitt WallaceCenter for Media andDemocracy. At right,Ben Cohen (’10),makes remarks after being named the 2008-09 Melcher Award winner. Both were hon-ored at a March 31 dinner attended by Dukestudent journalists, alumni journalists andaward sponsors.

Blumenthal’s career as a business reporter,bureau chief, editor and writer has spannednearly 25 years, including two decades at theWall Street Journal. Since leaving the newspa-per in 2007, she has written books includingGrande Expectations: A Year in the Life of Star -bucks’ Stock; Let Me Play: The Story of TitleIX, which won the Jane Addams Children’ sBook Award; and Six Days in October, a bookfor young people on the 1929 stock marketcrash. She gave the Futrell Lecture on mediacoverage of the financial crisis.

The annual Futrell Award for OutstandingAchievement in Communications and Journal -ism honors a Duke alumnus. It was estab-lished in 1999 by Ashley B. Futrell Jr., in trib-ute to his father, Ashley B. Futrell Sr., for hiscareer contributions to Duke University andto the profession of journalism. The awardincludes a cash prize and an engraved goblet.

The annual Melcher Family Award forExcellence in Journalism honors a Duke under-graduate for the best article published in thepast year. Cohen was selected for his article“Leveling the Playing Field: The Impact of Raceon the Search for Duke’s Next Head FootballCoach,” (The Chronicle, December 6, 2007).Also recognized was Robert L. Copeland forhis three-part series “DUPD Plagued byAttrition” (The Chronicle, April 15, 2008).

The Sanford Institute has establishedthe Susan Tifft Undergraduate Teach -ing/Mentoring Award in honor of the

longtime Eugene C. Patterson Professor ofthe Prac tice of Journalism and Public Policy,who will step down in July.

Beginning next year, the award will bepresented during the annual commence-ment ceremony to an outstanding professorteaching an undergraduate public policycourse.

“Susan is an inspiration to teachers,” saidJay Hamilton, director of the DeWitt WallaceCenter for Media and Democ racy. “She suc-cessfully challenges her students to be botheducated readers and active citizens. The long-term connections she forges with studentsare a reminder of how a Duke education canbe part of a lifetime love of learning.”

Since 1998, Tifft has taught “ReportingPublic Policy Issues,” “Who Owns the Press,”“Watchdogs and Muckrakers,” and “News asMoral Battleground,” a course focusing onethical dilemmas in media.

In announcing the award, InstituteDirector Bruce Kuni holm said studentsappreciate Tifft for challenging them withheavy workloads, asking probing questions,providing detailed writing feedback and, formany, serving as a lifelong mentor.

“She empowered her students to ap -proach their assignments as professionals,with the confidence that they were valued as

adults and trusted to get on with the work,”Kuniholm said. “Her courses helped themacquire a more sophisticated and nuancedunderstanding of how news decisions getmade, and of the links between public policyand journalism.”

Kuniholm noted that students consis-tently give Tifft’s teaching high ratings. Onthree occasions in three separate seminars,she received perfect scores. One studentpraised Tifft as “the most outstanding profes-sor I’ve had in my four years at Duke. She’sthe most insightful, bright, wise and engagedwoman at Sanford.”

Tifft graduated from Duke in 1973 with adegree in English, worked for the SanfordInstitute’s first director, Joel Fleishman, andbecame a Young Trustee.

“There is nothing Duke or the SanfordInstitute could have done that would havepleased or honored me more,” Tifft said. “Ihave loved being a journalist and author, andstill get a kick out of seeing my byline, but I have come to treasure teaching more.Nothing compares to the thrill of one mindmeeting another, or the light bulb going offin a student's head.”

Tifft’s contributions to students were rec-ognized at a March 23 dinner in her honorattended by many former and current stu-dents, as well as by her mentor, Eugene C.Patterson, former editor-in-chief of the St.Petersburg Times.

Teaching Award Named for Tifft

Student BusinessIncubator OpensWith the Feb. 9 opening of DUhatch, DukeUniversity students now have a place to growtheir business ideas into fledgling companies.

“That this is a multi-school effort involvingPratt, Fuqua, Trinity, Law and the nascentSchool of Public Policy is a reflection of themany dimensions that necessarily go intoentrepreneurship in the public interest,” saidTom Katsouleas, dean of the Pratt School ofEngineering.

Lawrence Boyd, associate director of theCenter for Entrepreneurship and ResearchCommercialization (CERC) at the Pratt School,is the director of the new incubator, located in the Teer building on West Campus. Otheropening event speakers included BruceKuniholm, director of the Terry SanfordInstitute; Blair Sheppard, dean of the FuquaSchool of Business; and George McLendon,dean of the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences.

DUhatch will give young entrepreneurs theresources to grow their businesses and connectthem with outside funding sources, lawyersand local business people. It offers a mentor-ing program that helps students partner withfaculty, industry or alumni, as well as a “coach-es-on-call” initiative, in which professionalsdonate their expertise to new companies.

The Sanford Institute has been involved inthe planning of DUhatch through the HartLeadership Program’s EntrepreneurialLeadership Initiative (ELI), begun by Profes sorof the Practice Tony Brown. ChristopherGergen, visiting lecturer in PPS, began direct-ing ELI in 2007.

Two former ELI students are involved withthe new program. Justin Healy (’10) is part ofSpinFuSe, one of the first five businesses inDUHatch. The company organized a system tosupply orthopedic equipment to surgeons indeveloping countries. Lina Feng (’10) is part ofDuke Student Ventures, a group that supportsstudent entrepreneurs and helps screen can-didates for the incubator.

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Social & Health Policy

By Jackie Ogburn

EOGs, Benchmarks, NAEP, NCCLAS—North Carolina schoolchildren wadethrough an alphabet soup of standard-

ized tests each year. Dothese tests really predicta successful young adult-hood for the student?Do poor scores meanhigher risk for criminalactivity?

A dozen Sanford Insti -tute faculty members willexamine these and other questions throughthe project Beyond Test Scores: Schooling andLife-Course Outcomes in Early Adulthood,funded by a two-year grant of $692,000 fromthe Smith Richardson Foun dation. CharlesClotfelter, Z. Smith Reynolds Professor ofPPS, is the principal investigator.

“This is an opportunity that doesn’t hap-pen often,” he said. “It’s extraordinary to havesuch a large number of faculty working togeth-er on a sustained and integrated set of researchtopics.” The project will link data from theNorth Carolina Education Research Database

with other data sets, and will include six initialresearch topics, a research workshop series,and a conference in the fall of 2010.

The project will have enormous impor-tance for educational policy, particularly theresearch pertaining to community colleges,Clotfelter said. Community colleges are nu -merically a large part of secondary education,but are included in only a small fraction ofthe research. They play a large role in train-ing young people who are not the top stu-dents, but who are being strongly affected byglobal changes and the recession.

The resulting research will have policyimplications for issues such as reforming stateaccountability programs, how remedial pro-grams should be used, identifying effectivepolicies for reducing criminal behavior, andlessening the impact of trade-related eco-nomic downturns.

Since the project began in early January,the research team has met for a series ofworkshops every two weeks. The workshopsinclude guest speakers who know the statepolicy terrain, such as officials from the N.C.Department of Public Instruction and theEmployment Security Commission. Public

policy graduate students and faculty fromother Duke departments and local universi-ties also will be brought into the workshops.

“We have hired a full-time statistician, D.J. Cratty, to do the computing heavy lifting,”Clotfelter said. Cratty will help link the stu-dent data in the N.C. Education ResearchData Center to previously unconnected datasets on enrollment and performance in com-munity colleges and universities, employ-ment, the criminal justice system and familyformation. The resulting detailed longitudi-nal micro data will allow new research onyoung people’s important life decisions andthe consequences for both the developmentof their productive capacities and their per-sonal well-being.

In addition to Clotfelter, the researchteam includes Sanford faculty membersElizabeth Ananat, Philip J. Cook, WilliamA. “Sandy” Darity Jr., Kenneth A. Dodge,Anna Gassman-Pines, Christina M. Gibson-Davis, Jim Johnson, Helen F. Ladd, ClaraG. Muschkin, Seth Sanders, and Jacob L.Vigdor. Charles Thompson, Lora King Pro -fessor of Education at East Carolina Uni ver -sity, is also part of the research team.

Study Examines Links Between School Test Scores,Other Measures of Success in Early Adulthood

Hanna Schuler and baby Isaac Schuler look at photographs in the ex -hibit, “Raising Them Right” in Rubenstein Hall. Photographer AmandaVan Scoyoc (right) introduces the topic during a panel discussion onApril 8. Panelists were Sarah Brown, CEO of the National Cam paign toPrevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy; Susan Cupito, director of

YWCA Greensboro’s teen parenting program; Carolyn Halpern, profes-sor of Maternal and Child Health at UNC, Chapel Hill; and FantasiaJohnson, a former teen mother and Durham social worker. The exhibitcan be viewed on weekdays, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., through mid August.

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By Jana A. Alexander

F ederal and state school accountabilityprograms overlap in North Carolina,creating a grab bag of acronyms and

mixed messages for schools and teachers. Thestate’s ABCs of Public Education, which re -quires end-of-course (EOC) and end-of-grade(EOG) tests, has been in place since 1996.The federal NCLB Act of 2001 added itsaccountability measurement, Adequate YearlyProgress (AYP), to the mix.

A new Center for Child and Family Policy(CCFP) study will use information from theNorth Carolina Education Research DataCenter to determine which incentive pro-

gram, if any, has thegreatest positive impacton student scores onstandardized tests. Thestudy received federalfunding for a four-yearperiod beginning March1, 2009. Principal inves-tigators are Jacob Vigdor,professor of PPS and

economics, and Thomas Ahn, a CCFP re -search associate.

“North Carolina schools, teachers, parentsand students have been getting mixed mes-sages for years,” Vigdor said. “Under the ABCs,all of the teachers at a school can re ceivebonuses because student test scores improved,but NCLB often labels the same school as‘bad’ because it did not meet adequate yearlyprogress.” The state incentives are based onyear-to-year improvements in test scores, whilethe federal NCLB considers whether studentsachieve a specific proficiency threshold.

Elementary schools offer the best environ-ment to evaluate the effects of these policies,Vigdor said, because K-5 children usually havea single teacher. This makes it easier to linkstudents and student outcomes to specificteachers, he said.

To infer the causal effect of accountabilityincentives, the study will focus on schoolsthat fall just above or just below the perform-ance objectives in place for the state and fed-eral programs. These otherwise comparableschools will be subjected to different sanc-tions, or different threats of sanctions. This“regression discontinuity” research design isconsidered a close substitute for the gold stan-dard, randomized experiments, Vigdor said.

The schools that get into trouble withNCLB but not the state, he said, are schools

that teach disadvantaged children. In theseschools, students can post dramatic improve-ments in test scores but still not reach theproficiency level, because they were at a lowlevel to start.

“North Carolina is looking for improve-ment that a teacher can affect,” said Vigdor.“No Child Left Behind is all about proficiency,and the teachers may respond by throwing uptheir hands and giving up because they areless likely to be able to move students fromwhatever their status is at the beginning of theyear to being proficient. The NCLB incentivesfeel more like ‘punishments.’ ”

The federal program imposes sanctions onschools that fail to make AYP. The first year,the school is on probation. The second year,the district must offer transfers to all students.The third year, the school must offer a supple-mental educational program. However, theburden for enforcing and funding these man-dates falls to the states.

With NCLB, previous studies have shownthat teachers are incentivized to focus onstudents who are on the cusp of proficiency.The result is that NCLB “leaves behind”children who are far from attaining proficien-cy, as well as those who are already profi-cient, Vigdor said.

Preliminary results from other studiesshow that the North Carolina’s ABCs pro-gram, which pays cash bonuses of up to$1,500 to certified staff and teacher assis-tants in schools that attain expected orexemplary growth, does produce student testscore improvements.

There are nu -merous differentstate - level ac -countability pro-grams in placeacross the country,and they are all

mixed up with NCLB, according to Vigdor.This study will provide insight about the spe-cific incentives in place in North Carolina, butcan speak to larger issues.

The U.S. Department of Education’s Insti -tute of Education Sciences (IES) is providingthe majority of project funding. Other fundersare The Spencer Foundation and the Ameri -can Enterprise Institute. The North CarolinaEducation Research Data Center, which islocated within CCFP, provides researchersand the broader policy community with readyaccess to the data they need for policy-orient-ed research.

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“The NCLBincentives feelmore like ‘punishments.’”

Conference ProbesRace, Memory

Memory studies, an emerging field ofacademic research, focuses on the wayscultures create and transmit stories aboutorigins, identities and the past. Incorporat -ing literature, history, psychology, educa-tion and the visual arts, among other fields,the objects of study include history books,memorials, museums, archives, oral tradi-tions and material artifacts.

A four-day conference, “Monuments &Memory,” took place April 14-17 at the San -ford Institute to explore what gets remem-bered about both race and racialization.

Sponsored by the Research Network onRacial and Ethnic Inequality, the conferencedrew a diverse audience, including a groupof scholars christened the “truth squad,” byWilliam “Sandy” Darity Jr., professor ofPPS and African American studies. Theychallenge historical accounts that underes-timate the significance of the slave trade inworld and U.S. history.Other group membersare Ronald Bailey ofSavannah StateUniversity, KarenFields, an independ-ent scholar, JosephInikori of SyracuseUniversity andBarbara Solow.

The conference was anchored by liter-ary readings by Sofía Quintero and JohnEdgar Wideman. Quintero read from hernovel Picture Me Rollin . Wideman sharedhis novel-in-progress which explores thelives and eerily similar deaths of Louis Tilland his son Emmett Till. Participants alsoviewed and discussed the film Nat Turner: ATroublesome Property, led by Peter Wood,emeritus professor of history at Duke.

Panels explored how monuments shapecollective memory and the psychologicaland sociological factors that influencememory. In his keynote talk, “Specificity ofthe Atlantic Slave Trade,” Bailey stressedhow politics, psychology and culture influ-ence our reluctance to accept the centralityof the slave trade.

Conference cosponsors were theSanford Institute, the history department,the Mary Lou Williams Center, the Africanand African American studies department,and the Arts and Sciences councils, all atDuke, along with the Institute for Arts andHumanities at UNC-Chapel Hill.

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Building on more than 20 years of re -search in eastern North Carolina,Sanford Institute Professor Sherman

James is beginning a community case studythat will tell a more com-plete story of how civilrights advances affectedthe health of AfricanAmericans.

James’ three-year proj-ect, titled “After the WallsCame Tumbling Down:The Health Legacy of the1960s Civil Rights Era ina Southern Com munity,” earned a prestigiousRobert Wood Johnson Foundation Investi -gator Award in Health Policy.

The study focuses on Pitt County be -tween 1965 and 1980, “a transformative peri-od in our nation’s history,” said James, theSusan B. King Professor of PPS.

During the period James will study,African American gains in voting rights,housing, education, employment and accessto medical care were mirrored in theirimproved health outcomes. Rates of infantmortality and cardiovascular disease amongblacks in Pitt County, as elsewhere in theSouth, fell dramatically, although they neverdeclined to rates experienced by whites.

A number of studies have connected civilrights legislation and progressive social poli-cies with improved health among blackAmeri cans. James’ community case study willgo further, examining “what these changeslooked like at ‘ground level’ and how theymight have fostered major improvements inthe health of black Americans—in a specificSouthern community…”

Although largely poor and rural, PittCounty is distinct in many ways from the restof eastern North Carolina due to the pres-ence of Pitt County Memorial Hospital andEast Carolina University and Medical Schoolin Greenville, the county seat.

Through a combination of quantitativeanalyses of public health statistics, detailedreviews of public expenditures, oral histories,and content analyses of local media reports,James’ research will depict the influences ofvarious societal factors on the narrowing ofblack/white health disparities.

A unique aspect of the project is James’dialogues with some key players in the com-munity’s journey away from segregation. Dur -ing a three-month sabbatical in Pitt Countyin 2005, James collected 38 oral histories.

He talked with respondents about howcivil rights legislation had affected their livesin the areas of medical care, jobs and housing.Among the interviewees was Dr. Andrew

Best, a general practition-er and the only black doc-tor in the county in 1965.

In the early 1960s, Bestand Dr. Malene Irons, awhite woman pediatri-cian, co-organized a com-munity interracial com-mittee aimed at promot-ing desegregation in Pitt

County, beginning with hospital-based infantcare. In the mid 1960s, federal legislationmandating nondiscriminatory use of all federalfunds enabled the consolidation and expan-sion of their pioneering civil rights activity inboth the medical and non-medical arenas.

A rapidly expanding middle class popula-tion, black as well as white, along with therapid growth of medical care services in thearea during the 1970s, make Pitt County anideal laboratory to investigate early influ-ences of civil rights legislation and relatedsocial polices, James said.

James noted that the impact of civil rightslegislation in key areas of American life hasbeen mixed. After initial gains in the areas ofemployment, housing, education and healthfrom the mid 1960s to the early 1980s,progress in narrowing black/white gaps hasstalled. In fact, U.S. health disparities linkedto race, socioeconomic status and geographi-cal location have been increasing for the pasttwo decades. Currently, nearly 50 millionAmeri cans lack any health insurance cover-age, and racial-ethnic minorities are over-represented among the uninsured.

James developed relationships in the re -gion through his two-decades long researchknown as “the Pitt County Study,” an NIH-funded longitudinal study of the psychoso-cial, economic and behavioral precursors ofcardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesityamong the county’s black population. ThePitt County Study began in 1988, with fol-low-up interviews and data collection in1993 and 2001.

The RWJF Investigator Awards in HealthPolicy are awarded to “innovative scholarshipwith the potential for contributing signifi-cantly to improving health policy in theUnited States.” Sanford professors PhilipCook and Frank Sloan have previouslyreceived RWJF awards.

James Begins Study of Health Effectsof Desegregation in Pitt County

New Website TracksDrug Use AmongN.C. AdolescentsA new website developed by a DukeUniversity researcher can help people bet-ter understand the nature of substanceabuse problems in North Carolina’s 100counties and track trends over time.

The website, “Substance Abuse amongNorth Carolina Adolescents,” (substanceabuse.ssri.duke.edu) taps publicly avail-able data on substance abuse indicators.Elizabeth Gifford, aresearch scientist withthe Duke Center forChild and FamilyPolicy, incorporatedadministrative data onarrests from the StateBureau ofInvestigation, detailson emergency room visits from the N.C.Division of Public Health and self-reportedmeasures from the Youth Risk BehaviorSurveillance (YRBS) Survey and the YouthTobacco Survey (YTS).

According to Gifford, the site providespolicymakers and practitioners at the state,county and local levels useful informationfor planning prevention strategies, deter-mining community service needs and eval-uating the benefits of alternative programsand policies.

“The goal of this website was to simplifythe process of assessing community need,”Gifford said. “Community groups seemed tobe spending so much time trying to under-stand what their needs were around sub-stance use. Alternatively, if the informationis more readily available, communities candedicate their time to having the next conversation — that is, what are the top priorities and strategies for serving theircommunity.”

The site was produced in partnershipwith The UNC Greensboro Center for Youth,Family, and Community Partnerships and theN.C. Division of Mental Health, Develop -mental Disabilities, and Substance AbuseServices. It was funded by the SubstanceAbuse and Mental Health Services Adminis -tration, Center for Substance Abuse Treat -ment, U.S. Department of Health and HumanServices.

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Health Policy BriefsGlobal Health in China • Two Sanford fac-ulty members, Kathryn Whetten, associateprofessor of PPS and community and familymedicine, and Don Taylor, assistant professorof PPS, community and family medicine, andnursing, will teach in Beijing, China, this summerin the new Global Health Diploma Program. Theprogram offered by the Duke Global HealthInstitute and Peking University will take placeon PKU’s campus and will be co-taught byDuke and PKU faculty. The program is support-ed by the Ministry of Education of China.Thirty students will participate in the first classof the program, which is the first of its kind tofocus on global health in China. Two otherDuke faculty members, Sumi Ariely and Gary

Bennett, also will travel to Beijing to co-teachthe 80-hour curriculum. Topics covered are:Introduction to Global Health Issues;Comparative Structure and Finance in HealthSystems; Health Promotion; and Global HealthEthics. Upon completion of the course and sub-mission of a final research paper, students willreceive a diploma signed by administratorsfrom each university.

The Program on Global Health andTech nology Access • PGHTA, directed byDr. Anthony So, professor of the practice of PPS,has completed its project with UNICEF onready-to-use therapeutic foods in easternAfrica. The program developed recommenda-tions for improvements to the supply chain ofthe foods to malnourished children in Ethiopia,Kenya and Somalia. Also, on Feb. 26-28, PGHTA

hosted the ReAct Secretariat Meeting at Duke.Action on Antibiotic Resistance (ReAct) is aninternational network of scientists, clinicians,policy advocates and civil society groups work-ing on the issue of antimicrobial resistance.

Gene-Environment Interactions • TheCenter for Child and Family Policy held a con-ference at Sanford May 18-19 to examine recentfindings concerning gene-environment inter-actions and their importance in three realms:science, clinical practice and public policy. KenDodge, director of CCFP and professor of PPS,gave opening remarks. Robert Cook-Deegan,director of the Center for Genome Ethics, Law &Policy and research professor of PPS, gave apresentation entitled “GxE in the Era of Full-Genome Sequencing: Some Lessons from theHistory of Eugenics and the Race-IQ Debate.”

Patenting and LicensingMonopolies Create Problemsin U.S. Genetic Testing

P atenting of genes has not resulted in apattern of exorbitant pricing or re -stricted access to tests for diseases

such as Alzheimer’s and breast cancer, DukeUniversity researchers reported in the March26 issue of Nature magazine.

However, patents and exclusive licensesthat establish genetic testing monopolies arecreating significant problems for patients andphysicians, the authors found. Robert Cook-Deegan, research professor of PPS and direc-tor of the Center for Genome Ethics, Lawand Policy (GELP); Misha Angrist, lecturerin PPS; and Subhashini Chandrasekharan,also of GELP, authored the paper.

The Nature commentary, “The dangers ofdiagnostic monopolies,” is based on eightcase studies conducted by Duke health policystudents over the last two years. The studieswere conducted for the Secretary’s AdvisoryCom mittee on Genetics, Health and Society(SACGHS), U.S. Dept of Health and HumanServices, which is assessing whether patentingrestricts patient access to genetic tests.

The draft report to the secretary of HHSfrom the task force, including the Duke casestudies, is available online at http://oba.od.nih.gov/SACGHS/sacghs_public_comments.html. The public comment period wasscheduled to close on May 15.

“Although our findings detect no perva-sive effects that consistently help or hinderclinical access to genetic testing, there is

much room for improvementin patenting and licensing,through action by universitytechnology licensing offices,federal oversight and self-po -lic ing by commercial pa tentlicensees,” Cook-Deegan said.

Cook-Deegan said the most surprisingfinding was that prices of patented, exclusive-ly licensed tests are not dramatically or con-sistently higher than prices for tests lacking amonopoly. For example, unit prices for breastcancer testing—provided solely by Myriad inthe United States—are comparable to simi-lar tests for genetic susceptibility to coloncancer, which are available from many labo-ratories under nonexclusive licenses.

This is contrary to the pattern seen indrug pricing, where exclusive patent rightsare linked to substantially higher prices. Thestudy did not address why the pattern differs,but there are theories, Cook-Deegan said.

“Diagnostic tests are reimbursed by formu-las that compare new tests to similar existingtests, making large price jumps difficult to jus-tify. Moreover, diagnostics have not been a bigprofit center historically; companies aren’tused to making massive profits from diagnos-tics. There also has been a lot of public contro-versy focused on access to these tests.”

Other common assumptions examined inthe case studies are that allowing gene pa tentswill speed up development of tests, and that

test quality might suffer without competition.Neither was consistently true, which suggeststhat patenting was not the primary influenceon either innovation or quality. However, theauthors noted that monopolies do exacerbateconcerns about test quality.

The federal government “has not exer-cised its considerable clout” in this arena,Cook-Deegan said. It has not used Medi -care’s and Medicaid’s market power to decidecoverage and set reimbursement rates fortests, which would ensure that all patientswho need a genetic test get one. Nor has thegovernment ever taken control of a patent ina case where a patent-holder’s actions haveeliminated tests from the market or led topoor quality testing, as is possible under the1980 Bayh-Dole Act, he said.

Universities are particularly importantplayers. Because their research finds genesassociated with disease, they own a highlydisproportionate share of gene patents forgenetic tests. Universities owned 75 percentof the patents examined in the case studies,compared to less than 3 percent of all U.S.patents, Cook-Deegan said.

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Graduation 2009

Undergrads accept congratulations. Jin-Soo Huh,above left, graduated with distinction and was theundergraduate student speaker. Alison Dorsey,right, won the Terry Sanford Leadership Award.

At top, Jason Pate, 2008-09 president of the Public Policy MajorsUnion, and fellow PPS grad Ariel Levin, relish the moment. Familiesenjoy the graduate brunch in the Sanford Building.

The 2009 graduation ceremonies for theSanford Institute of Public Policy honored 158undergraduates, 43 Master of Public Policy

graduates, and 42 Program in International Develop -ment Policy master’s graduates from 19 countries.

This year’s celebration was unique: Institute DirectorBruce Kuniholm arrived toward the end of the graduateceremony to announce that the Duke Board of Trusteeshad just voted in favor of creating the Sanford School ofPublic Policy, a milestone that has been in the works forfour years.

“Their vote confirms Duke University’s commitmentto advancing toward its goals even in challengingtimes,” Kuniholm said. He told graduates the change signals that, “Your stock, and Sanford’s, is on the rise—and there aren’t too many today who can say that.”

The MPP Outstanding Student Award went to co-winners Frank DiSilvestro and Daniela SantaMariaDoyle.

The Richard A. Stubbing Graduate Teaching/Mentoring Award was presented to Professor of thePractice of PPS Tom Taylor.

Four graduating MPP students received Presi den tialManagement Fellowships: Vanessa Holcomb, DevinO’Connor, Benjamin Rae, and Celeste Richie.

During the undergraduate ceremony, Chetan B.Jhaveri, a Robertson Scholar, received the Joel Fleish -man Distinguished Scholar Award for highest academicachievement in public policy studies.

Alison N. Dorsey received the Terry SanfordLeadership Award. She was recognized for her work toestablish the Durham Community Consulting program,which trains Duke undergraduates to provide Durhamnonprofit organizations with strategy and manage-ment consulting services. It is the only student-ledgroup project ever funded by DukeEngage. (For a storyon Dorsey, please see the Sanford website).

Lindsay E. Bayham’s thesis, “Unstable Advocacy:Visualizing the Invisible in American Anti-TraffickingDiscourse,” was named the Best Honors Thesis of 2009.Additional undergraduate public policy majors whocompleted honors theses and graduated with highestdistinction or distinction in public policy are: PatriciaM. Carreiro, Samantha A. Fahrbach, James D.Friedland, Kathryn E. Harrell, Andrew M. Holmberg,Jin-Soo Daniel Huh, Chetan B. Jhaveri, Aneesh K.Kapur, Ariel D. Levin, Max F. Masnick, ShailyPandey, Jason M. Pate, Stacey Yu Wang, Melanie E.Wright, and Yi Xiang.

Bayham also received the Betsy Alden Outstand ingService-Learning Award.

Three public policy students won the William J.Griffith University Service award: Bayham, Jin-SooDaniel Huh —who was chosen as the undergraduatestudent speaker—and Colin M. Tierney.

In his address, undergraduate student speaker Jin-Soo Huh encouraged his classmates to “… apply ourtalents and skills to make a meaningful impact in ourhometowns, our country and the world.”

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Helene McAdams, MPP senior program coordinator,presents the graduate staff award to Stephanie Alt Lamm,assistant director of DCID.

Clockwise from top, Katia Dantas, secondfrom right, smiles after she and fellow PIDPgraduates received their hoods. Frank DiSil -vestro, co-winner of the MPP OutstandingStudent Award, addresses the class whileFrancis Lethem, director of DCID, looks on.Professor Fritz Mayer, left, bestows a hoodon MPP graduate Marina Frangipol, thencongratulates Daniela Doyle, co-winner of the MPP Outstanding Student Award.Mayer was honored for nine years asDirector of Graduate Studies.

Professor Tom Taylor won theStubbing Graduate Teachingand Mentoring Award.

Global Policy

By Jackie Ogburn

During his first semester on campus,Shawn Selleck (PIDP ’09) was suc-cessful in getting Durham named as

the first North Carolina city to support ONE:The Campaign to Make Poverty History.

ONE, cofounded by rock star Bono, is aglobal advocacy nonprofit working to fightextreme poverty and preventable disease.Selleck also led the Duke chapter of the ONECampus Challenge to encourage students tobecome involved in poverty issues.

That’s just one example of how Selleckbalanced his coursework in the Program inInternational Development Policy master’sprogram with advocacy related to globalpoverty issues.

Selleck has also met with several membersof Congress, including representatives DavidPrice and Brad Miler and Sen. Kay Hagan,on behalf of the citizen advocacy groupsRESULTS and CARE International.

“Both ONE and RESULTS are recognizedby politicians as groups that aren’t goingaway,” Selleck said. “They build relationshipswith congressional leaders.”

In February, Selleck attended the ONEPower 100 Summit in Washington, D.C., aconference that brought together members ofCongress, leaders of NGOs such as OxFam,and other activists. Selleck met actor AnthonyEdwards, best know for his role as a doctor on

the television show “ER,” who is working tobuild the first children’s hospital in Kenya.

Duke University benefited from his advo-cacy skills this spring, when Selleck againtraveled to Washington with the Office ofFederal Relations. Selleck submitted a 500-word essay to earn a place in the group,which spoke to three N.C. representativesand both senators about higher educationissues such as research funding and the visaproblems of international students.

Selleck’s drive wasn’t always focused onpolicy. After graduating from N.C. State Uni -versity with an engineering de gree, he got ajob with the consulting firm Accenture.

“It was the kind of job everyone at Fuquadreams of,” he said. On assignment in LatinAmerica, he first became exposed to extremepoverty and began to question whether“help ing BMW make an extra five dollars ona car” was worthwhile.

Then a friend from India told him aboutmicrofinance. Selleck soon realized, “Socialproblems are so much more fascinating thanbusiness problems.”

He attended the 2006 Global MicrocreditSummit in 2006 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, as anunaffiliated ob server. The experience solidifiedhis passion for the subject and led him toleave the corporate world to be come LatinAmerica project manager for FINCA Inter -national. But Selleck quick ly realized hisknowledge of the field was lacking.

“I was ignorant of the history of the WorldBank, the IMF and poverty methodology,” hesaid. The PIDP classes have given him thegrounding he wanted, “especially (ProfessorAnirudh) Krishna’s classes, which had suchintense discussion about the history and thebest ideas.”

In spite of all the professional contacts hisadvocacy have brought him, Selleck’s nextstep is more personal. After graduation thisMay, he plans to take a break.

“As a mid-career professional, I promisedmyself some time off.” He’s going to Brazil tovisit friends, read, study Portuguese and“probably do some volunteer work.”

PIDP Student Hones Skills in Anti-Poverty Advocacy

Shawn Selleck (PIDP ’09) with actorAnthony Edwards at a ONE conference onfighting poverty in Washington, D.C.

By Leslie Griffith

The Hart Leadership Program has select-ed three graduating seniors to receive2009-2010 Hart Fellowships.

Jane Chong, Andrew Tutt and YiselValdes will each spend 10 months conduct-ing community-based research with a hostorganization in a developing nation. Chong,Tutt and Valdes join 66 previous Hart Fel -lows who have worked with 49 host organi-zations in 29 countries.

Chong is a University Scholar and memberof Phi Beta Kappa who received High Dis -tinction for her thesis, The Lolita Canon in aNew Battlefield: Remapping the Tension Be -tween Ethics and Aesthetics in the Parodic Novel.

Chong of Elk Grove, Ill., majored in Englishand economics. She traveled to Brazil with aDuke Students of the World (SOW) docu-mentary filmmaking team last year to chroni-cle the impact of poverty, human rights abusesand environmental hazards. Chong has beeninvolved in many organizations at Duke,including serving as Honor Council Chairand Undergraduate Judicial Board Co-Chair.

Tutt of Davis, Calif., majored in economics,biomedical engineering, and mathematics. Hehas written theses in both economics and bio-medical engineering. In 2008, Tutt was award-ed the Davies Research Fellowship in Eco -nom ics, the Sustainable Energy Fellowshipthrough the Global Institute of Sustainabil -ity, and the Phillips Foundation’s Ronald

Reagan College Leader Award. While at Duke,Andrew founded Duke Conversations Society,founded and served as editor-in-chief of theDuke Journal of Public Affairs and co-foundedthe Gothic Guardian, a monthly magazine ofconservative student opinion at Duke.

Valdes of Miami, Fla., a sociology major, isa recipient of the Bill Gates MillenniumScholarship and the Hispanic Heritage YouthScholarship. Since 2007, Valdes has worked asa student researcher for the Duke Center onGlobalization, Governance, and Competi tive -ness. Valdes also conducted research for Euro-Info Consommateurs in Kehl, Germany, whereshe studied the impact of national laws onEuropean Union consumers. Originally fromCuba, Valdes co-founded the Cuban-Ameri -can Student Association at Duke and servedin the leadership of Mi Gente, the largestLatino student organization on campus.

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Improving Health Care in IndiaBy Gabe Starosta

B efore coming toDuke to pursuea degree in in ter -

national developmentpolicy, Anita Sharmaspent four years in oneof the poorest areas inthe world. She workedintimately with residentsin some rural parts of Jharkhand, a state ineastern India, and helped promote economicand social development and communityhealth in the region through an NGO.

But the astounding lack of health care inJharkhand—not in the American sense in -volving advanced technology and newlydeveloped drugs, but in the most basic sense,involving affordable and effective treatmentfor common diseases—inspired Sharma to tryto find a workable solution.

For her master’s project, Sharma focusedon improving micro health insurance in India.She studied what health care financing op -tions were available in poor, crowded areas—a huge percentage of the Indian subconti-nent—and made recommendations on howto better provide medical coverage.

Sharma, who is trained in chemistry, be -lieves a lack of government spending onhealth care is a key reason for the poor stan-dard of living and health in India.

“Indians provide for a greater proportion ofhealth care costs from out of their pockets—

hardly any Indians have health insur-ance—so many people become impover-ished on account of health care costs,many more than in Ameri ca” she said.

Poor people in rural areas often haveto travel several hours to be seen by thenearest doctor, Sharma said. To do so,they are forced to take a day off work, for-feiting the wages they would have earnedthat day, which are frequently needed tosurvive. Medical care is costly, difficult

to acquire and provides no assurance that thepatient will be healed.

To remedy the situation, Sharma proposedthat India set up a system of basic universalhealth care similar to that in Thailand andColombia. Micro health insurance is charac-terized by low premiums and limited benefits,and is designed to serve low-income people.Furthermore, many Indian governmental pro-grams target those living below the povertyline, but ignore the hundreds of millions ofpeople living slightly above the poverty line.Sharma pushed for the government to open itsprograms to more people in need.

In the long run, Sharma hopes Indians canseek health care directly from the government,rather than NGOs, whose focus is restricted tocertain areas and whose finances are limited.She urged the government to em phasize pre-ventive care and education, so the rural poorcan learn how to avoid common illnesses.

After graduation this spring, Sharma plansto return to India and work in the area ofhealth care for marginalized communities.

Jentleson DiscussesMiddle East Policy withSyrian PresidentProfessor of PPS and Political Science BruceJentleson was a member of a delegationthat traveled to Saudi Arabia and Syria inJanuary. During the visit, the group had atwo-hour meeting with Syrian PresidentBashar al-Assad.

The group left the meeting with the viewthat Syria has strong interest in improvedrelations with the United States, Jentlesonsaid.

“Assad used the formulation ‘70/30’ ofthe interests we potentially share vs. oneswe do not,” Jentleson said, “His emphasiswas that we should focus on the 70, whileworking out the 30. He came back to a sharedinterest with the U.S. in fighting extremism,which he described as ‘a challenge facingthe world.’ We may see the percentages dif-ferently, but the point is an interesting one.”

Jentleson said Assad noted that forprogress to occur, four elements seemedcentral: a focus on interests, not ideology orpast history as the basis for relations amongstates; recognition of the need to deal with“who is powerful,” whoever they are;emphasis on the interconnectedness of theregion’s issues; and secularism vs. extremismas a central dynamic in the region, and a par-ticular threat to Syrian stability.

The Assad meeting was covered by theJerusalem Post, Agence France-Presse, andother international media. The trip wassponsored by the U.S. Institute of Peace andthe Stimson Center for meetings related toUSIP’s “Iraq and Its Neighbors Project.”

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Watch a video or read Jentleson’scommentary about the meetingon the Institute’s web site:

www.pubpol.duke.edu/news/features/jentleson_com030409.php

By Christine Hall

G race Baranowski enrolled in the PPScourse, “Women as Leaders,” duringthe drop-add window solely because

it fit into her schedule and didn’t require a permission number. Although at first it was a choice of conveni -ence, Baranowski said,“I could not have cho-sen a better class…”

The seminar classcreated a “zine” underthe supervision of RachelSeidman, assistant pro-fessor of PPS, as a finalproject for the course lastsemester. Titled “Duke Life: A Closer Look atthe Hookup Culture,” the zine is a 22-pagepublication overflowing with quotes, statis-tics and personal narratives addressing theculture surrounding relationships at Duke.

“I wanted them to understand the cour -age and persistence that it really takes to tryto make a difference,” Seidman said. “Puttingthem in this context let them see themselvesas a part of tradition and history.”

The course examines the history of Amer -i can women’s efforts to exercise leadershipand make social change both inside and out-side of the political system, and then looks atcurrent issues concerning women and lead-ership. Seidman said she changed the syl-labus this year to allow students to explorethe role of women on campus. But creating azine wasn’t part of her plan.

“The idea for a zine grew out of their con-versations,” Seidman said. “What I like isthat they pulled together both research andpersonal experiences, talking to peers andadministration. They were thinking at astructural level about what are the contex -tual, broader issues shaping the hookup culture.”

The 11-member class chose to look at thehookup culture at Duke, Baranowski said,

because of national media attention given tothe topic as well as its prevalence in studentlife. Their zine includes evidence that contra-dicts the existence of a significant hookup cul-ture. The information was drawn from a socialrelationship study conducted by SuzanneShanahan, associate director of the KenanInstitute for Ethics, in late 2007. The survey,titled “Love on the Quad: Romanic Rela -tionships,” reveals what Baranowski calls “adisconnect between reality and perception.”

“Often, [freshmen] come with precon-ceived notions fed by The Rolling Stone articleand media coverage from the Duke lacrossecase,” Baranowski said. “Freshmen assumethat the behavior they see modeled by upper-classmen is expected. Without seeing anycontradicting evidence or behavior, theybecome sucked into the ‘hook-up’ culture.Drunken, casual hook-ups seem normal.”

Although the zine presents statistics thatdownplay the existence of that culture oncampus, Baranowski said they don’t intendto be preachy or patronizing; rather thegroup’s aim is to give incoming students fullinformation about the culture at Duke. Thebooklet includes several personal essays inwhich students talk about their own experi-ences with hook-ups.

“We’re not saying, ‘Don’t party.’ We’re justsaying, ‘Party smart,’” she said. “Use modera-tion, common sense, and respect for yourselfand your peers. Be aware of alternatives. Inthe end, do what you believe to be right.”

Baranowski has spearheaded efforts tocontinue working to publish and distributethe zine to the incoming freshman class. Thestudents received a grant from the KenanInstitute for Ethics and funding from theWomen’s Center, but Baranowski says moremoney is essential for the final product. Shealso explained that having a lasting changewill take a significant amount of effort.

“In the end, transformation doesn’t filterfrom the top down,” she said. “Instead, culti-vating conversations between individuals re -volutionizes the culture from the bottom up.”


Students Apply Leadership Lessons to Hookup Culture at Duke

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“When I go out I’m not looking for ahookup. I’m looking to have fun withmy friends.” —Freshman

“Even if you are not drunk, anythingcan still happen. I don’t drink and Ihave had my fair share of unfortunate,unfortunate hookups.” —Freshman

Fiction: No one at Duke is in a relationship.

Fact: 51% of Duke under -graduates have been in a committed relationship

while at Duke.

Assistant Professor of PPS Marc Bellemare gavefour presentations of his paper entitled “House -hold Welfare and Multi-Commodity Price Risk:Evidence from Rural Ethiopia” March 13 atUniversity of Ottawa; March 23 at the Universityof Tennessee, Knoxville; March 19-21, SCC-76Conference on the Economics and Managementof Risk in Agriculture and Natural Resources,Galveston, Texas; and May 1-2 at the MidwestInternational Economic Development Con fer -ence, University of Minnesota. He also presenteda second paper, “On the (Mis)Use of Wealth as a Proxy for Risk Aversion,” at the SCC-76Conference.

Alma Blount, director of the Hart LeadershipProgram, spoke on “Educating for Democracy:How Higher Education Can Play a LeadershipRole in Promoting Political Engagement AmongCollege Students,” at Elon University to theCampus Compact national board of directorsmeeting in October 2008. She also participated in a three-day working group with educators and religious leaders on “From Whatever toCoherence—Toward a Cultural Shift in Supportof the 20-Something Years” at Whidbey Instituteat Chinook, Wash., in November 2008.

Ann B. Brewster, research scientist of the Centerfor Child and Family Policy, received an $82,000award from Wake County for a project entitled“Project AIM: A Middle School-High School-University Collaboration for Middle School Youthat Risk of Dropping Out.” She is also the schoolliaison for the Duke School Research PartnershipOffice, now directed by David Rabiner, seniorresearch scientist with CCFP.

Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of PPS CharlesClotfelter served on the Association for PublicPolicy Analysis and Management PhD awardscommittee this year.

ITT/Terry Sanford Professor of PPS Philip Cookgave a presentation Jan. 10 on “The case for higher alcohol taxes,” at the National AlcoholBeverage Control Associate annual board meet-ing in Miami, Fla. At the UCLA Law ReviewSymposium on the Second Amendment Jan. 23 in Los Angeles, he presented his paper “GunControl After Heller.” On Feb 13 he spoke on“Paying the Tab: the Economics of AlcoholControl” at the Maryland Population ResearchCenter in College Park, and again March 4 at theUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore County. Hegave an invited speech on “Lessons from AlcoholTaxation” at the Active Living ResearchConference Feb. 20 in San Diego. At a NationalAcademies’ workshop March 5, he gave an invit-ed talk on “Shadow prices for crime.” On March24 at the Villanova Conference on CatholicSocial Teaching and Criminal Justice he gave apresentation about gun violence.

Ken Dodge, William McDougall Professor ofPPS, wrote a column March 4 in the RaleighNews & Observer entitled “Let laws reflect evi-dence.” His Feb. 10 column for the DurhamHerald-Sun was entitled “No silver bullets, but a

silver lining in youth programs.” He gave a pres-entation on “Social Information ProcessingPatterns as Mediators in the Development ofAggressive Behavior” at the Second HerzliyaSymposium on Personality and Social Psychologyin Israel, March 24-26.

Robert M. Entman, visiting professor of PPS,who is on sabbatical from his position at GeorgeWashington University, gave the keynote speech“Surging Beyond Realism,” at the conference onMedia, War and the Public Sphere, AustrianAcademy of Science, Vienna, on March 6. At thesymposium on Studying Reality by Analysing theNews he gave a talk on “Framing Bias” at the CityUniversity London on March 31. He gave threelectures as a visiting professor, April 6-10, at theZhejiang University Department of PoliticalScience, Hangzhou, China. He gave the presen -tation “Science, Policy and Democracy in theMedia,” at the workshop on Science, Democracy,and Global Environmental Regulation, atPrinceton University, May 14-15.

Fernando R. Fernholz, associate professor of thepractice of PPS, received an award from WorldVision Canada for a project entitled “WorldVision East Sumba Revenue MobilizationAssessment.”

Anna Gassman-Pines, assistant professor of PPS,received a grant from the Foundation for ChildDevelopment for a two-year project entitled,“Paternal Employment, Family Functioning andYoung Child Well-Being: A Daily Diary Study ofMexican Immigrant Families.” She presented twopapers at the Society for Research in Child Devel -opment Biennial Meeting in Denver, Colo., April2-4, “Across the Generations: The Effect of Grand -parent Income on Grandchild Outcomes,” withAssistant Professor of PPS Christina Gibson-Davis, and “Low-Income Mothers’ Work DuringNonstandard Hours: Daily Associations WithMaternal and Child Outcomes.”

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Faculty News

Faculty Earn PromotionsA number of Sanford fac-ulty members havereceived promotions andhave new titles. JudithKelley is now associateprofessor of PPS, whileRobert Korstad andJacob Vigdor both risefrom the rank of associateprofessor to professor. Ed

Skloot, director of the Center for StrategicPhilanthropy and CivilSociety, is now professorof the practice of PPS.David Schanzer, directorof the Triangle Center onTerrorism and HomelandSecurity, and EvanCharney are now associ-ate professors of thepractice.

Clay Johnson, a visiting lecturer in PPS,earned two Emmy Awards for a half-hour tele-vision program and a 30-second public serviceannouncement about the nationwide digitaltelevision transition. Johnson, a faculty affili-ate with the DeWitt Wallace Center for Mediaand Democ racy, is a documentary producer atWRAL-TV in Raleigh. The awards were pre-sented Jan. 24 in Nashville, Tenn., at the 23rdAnnual MidSouth Emmy Awards. As the pro-ducer and writer for the programs, Johnsonshared the awards with actor James Benedictand photographer and editor Jay Jennings.

James A. Joseph, professor of the practice ofPPS, received a $200,000 grant from the FordFoundation for his project entitled “‘EffectiveLeadership’ — A Program for Rising Mid-Career Leaders in Louisiana.”

Frank Sloan, J. AlexanderMcMahon Professor of HealthPolicy, and Lindsey Chepke ofDuke’s Center for HealthPolicy, were awarded Honor -able Mention for their bookMedical Malpractice in theeconomics category of the2008 PROSE Awards pre-sented by the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of theAssociation of American Publishers.

Five Duke professors from across the universityhave recent secondary appointments in publicpolicy studies, increasing the interdisciplinaryreach of our faculty and offering new opportu-nities to public policy students. They are: LoriBennear, assistant professor of environmentaleconomics; David Brady, associate professorof sociology; William Chafe, the Alice MaryBaldwin Professor of History and co-directorof Sanford’s Program on History, Public Policyand Social Change; Duncan Thomas, professorof economics; and Jeffrey Vincent, Clarence F.Korstian Professor of Forest Economics andManagement. Also, Anna Gassman-Pines andChristina Gibson-Davis, both assistant pro-fessors of PPS, received co-appointments inPsychology and Neuroscience. Gassman-Pinesand Gibson-Davis are faculty affiliates withthe Center for Child and Family Policy.

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Faculty PublicationsBellemare, Marc F. “Sharecropping, InsecureLand Rights, and Land Titling Policies: A CaseStudy of Lac Alaotra, Madagascar.” DevelopmentPolicy Review 29.1: 87-106.

Clotfelter, Charles T., Helen F. Ladd, andJacob L. Vigdor. “School Segregation under

Color-blind Jurisprudence:The Case of North Carolina.”Virginia Journal of Social Policy& the Law 16: 46-86.

Dodge, Kenneth A.“Framing public policy andprevention of chronic vio-lence in American youth.”American Psychologist 63.7:573-590.

Dodge, K.A., Greenberg,M.T., Malone, P.S., and

the Conduct Problems PreventionResearch Group. “Testing an idealized dynamiccascade model of the development of seriousviolence in adolescence.” Child Development 79:1907-1927.

Dodge, K.A. “Community intervention andpublic policy in the prevention of antisocialbehavior.” Journal of Child Psychology andPsychiatry 50: 194-200.

Fite, J.E., J.A.Goodnight, J.E.Bates, K.A. Dodgeand G.S.Pettit. “Adolescent aggression andsocial cognition in context: Impulsivity as amoderator of prediction from social informationprocessing.” Aggressive Behavior 34: 511-520.

Fontaine, R.G., C. Yang, B.S. Burks, K.A.Dodge, J.M. Price, G.S. Pettit and J.E. Bates.“Loneliness as a partial mediator of the relationbetween low social preference in childhood andanxious/depressed symptoms in adolescence.”Development and Psychopathology21: 479-491.

Fontaine, R.G., C. Yang, K.A.Dodge, G.S. Pettit and J.E. Bates.“Development of response eval-uation and decision (RED) andantisocial behavior in childhoodand adolescence.” DevelopmentalPsychology 45: 447-459.

Fontaine, R.G., C. Yang, K.A.Dodge, J.E. Bates and G.S. Pettit.“Testing an individual systemsmodel of Response Evaluationand Decision (RED) and antiso-cial behavior across adolescence.” Child Development 79.2: 462-475.

Goodnight, J.A., J.E. Bates, G.S. Pettit and K.A.Dodge.“Parents’ campaigns to reduce their chil-dren’s conduct problems: Interactions with tem-peramental resistance to control.” EuropeanJournal of Developmental Science 2.1/2: 100-119.

Lansford, J.E., and K.A. Dodge. “Culturalnorms for adult corporal punishment of childrenand societal rates of endorsement and use ofviolence.” Parenting: Science and Practice 8: 257-270.

Lansford, J.E., Erath, S., Yu, T., Pettit, G.S.,Dodge, K.A., and Bates, J.E. “The developmen-tal course of illicit substance use from age 12 to22: Links with depressive, anxiety, and behaviordisorders at age 18.” Journal of Child Psychologyand Psychiatry 49: 877-885.

Multisite Violence Prevention Project (David Rabiner and Kenneth A. Dodge,members). “The Multisite Violence PreventionProject: Impact of a univer sal school-based violence prevention program onsocial-cognitive outcomes.” PreventionScience 9.4: 231-244.

Pinderhughes, E.E., Hurley, S., andthe Conduct Problems PreventionResearch Group (Kenneth A. Dodge,member). “Disentangling ethnic andcontextual influences among parentsraising youth in high-risk communi-ties.” Applied Developmental Science12.4: 211-219. Additional publications from theConduct Problems Prevention Group can be locatedon Dodge’s Sanford web page.

Entman, Robert M. and K. Gross.“Race toJudgment: Stereotyping Media and CriminalDefendants.” Law and Contemporary Problems71: 93-133.

Entman, Robert M., J. Matthes and L.Pellicano. “Framing Politics in the News:Nature, Sources and Effects.” In K. Wahl-Jorgensen and T. Hanitzsch (Eds.), Handbook ofJournalism Studies. Lawrence Erlbaum andInternational Communication AssociationHandbook Series, 2009.

Gassman-Pines, Anna and H. Yoshikawa.“Five-year effects of an anti-poverty program onmarriage among never-married mothers.” In M.Pirog (Ed.) Social Experimentation, ProgramEvaluation, and Public Policy. Journal of PolicyAnalysis and Management Classics Series.Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.

Goss, Kristin and S.L. Shames.“Political Pathways to Child CarePolicy: The Role of Gender inState-Building.” In J. Gelb andM.L. Palley (Eds.) Women & PoliticsAround the World: A ComparativeHistory and Survey. ABC-CLIO,2009.

Jentleson, Bruce W. “The AtlanticAlliance in a Post-AmericanWorld.” Journal of Trans-AtlanticStudies 7.1: 61-72.

Jentleson, B. W. “StrategicLeadership: America’s Global Role amidstSystemic Change.” Paper presented at theannual meeting of the ISA’s 50th AnnualConvention “Exploring the Past, Anticipatingthe Future,” New York Marriott Marquis, NewYork, N.Y., Feb 15, 2009. www.allacademic.com/meta/p310405_index.html.

Kelley, Judith. “The More the Merrier? TheEffects of Having Multiple InternationalElection Monitoring Organizations.” Perspectiveson Politics 7: 59-64.

Krishna, Anirudh and J. Lecy. “The Balance of All Things: Explaining Household PovertyDynamics in 50 Villages of Gujarat, India.”International Journal of Multiple Research Methods2.2: 160-75.

Krishna, A. and J.N. Pieterse. “HierarchicalIntegration: The Dollar Economy and theRupee Economy.” Development and Change 39.2:219-237.

Krishna, A. “SubjectiveAssessments, Participatory Methodsand Poverty Dynamics: The Stagesof Progress Method.” In T. Addison,D. Hulme, and R. Kanbur (Eds.),Poverty Dynamics: InterdisciplinaryPerspectives. Oxford, UK: OxfordUniversity Press, 2009: 183-204.

Krishna, A. and K. Ananthpur.“Formal Perceptions of InformalJustice.” In A.Singh and N.A. Zahid

(Eds.), Strengthening Governance through Access toJustice. New Delhi: PHI Learning Pvt Ltd, 2009.

Roselle, Laura, B. Barnett, A. Reynolds and S.Oates. “Journalism & Terrorism Across theAtlantic: A Qualitative Content Analysis ofCNN and BBC Coverage of 9/11 and 7/7.”Feedback 49.6: 29-43.

Vigdor, Jacob. “The Economic Aftermath ofHurricane Katrina.” Journal of EconomicPerspectives 22.4: 135-154.

Vigdor, J. and J. Ludwig. “Segregation and theBlack-White Test Score Gap.” In K. Magnusonand J. Waldfogel (Eds.), Steady Gains and Stalled Progress: Inequality and the Black-WhiteTest Score Gap. Russell Sage Foundation, 2008.

Vigdor, J. “The PerplexingPersistence of Race.” In R.P.Inman (Ed.), Making CitiesWork: Prospects and Policies forUrban America. PrincetonUniversity Press, 2009.

Wiener, Jonathan B.“Radiative Forcing: ClimatePolicy to Break the Logjamin Environmental Law.”NYU Environmental Law Journal 17:210-255. Available as Nicholas InstituteWorking Paper 08-04 (Dec. 2008), atwww.nicholas.duke.edu/institute/wp-radiative_forcing.pdf .

Reichman, J., A.K. Rai, R.G. Newell and J.B.Wiener. “Intellectual Property and Alterna -tives: Strategies for Green Innovation.”Chatham House Project on Climate ChangeTechnologies and Intellectual Property Rights.London, U.K., Nov. 10, 2008. www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/691/

Wiener, J.B. “Issues in Comparing RegulatoryOversight Bodies.” OECD Public ManagementDirectorate, Working Party on RegulatoryManagement and Reform (Paris: OECD, Oct. 8,2008).

Wiener, J.B. “Climate Change Policy, and Policy Change in China.” UCLA Law Review55: 1805.


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Kristin Goss, assistant professor of PPS, gave aninvited talk March 2 at the University of FloridaPolitical Science Department entitled, “Voice &Equality? Women’s Group Advocacy on CapitolHill, 1878-2000.” She is serving this year as vicepresident and program chair of the League ofWomen Voters of Arlington, Va., where she isusing social science theory and methods toexplore ways to revive membership in this his -torically influential civic organization.

On April 15, Alex Harris, professor of the practiceof PPS, and William deBuys spoke at the Centerfor Documentary Studies about their collabora-tion on River of Traps, a Pulitzer Prize finalist ingeneral nonfiction in 1991. The book recentlywas republished by Trinity University Press.

Professor of PPS and Political Science BruceJentleson was named to the editorial board of thejournal Political Science Quarterly. He gave thekeynote address, “The Obama Foreign Policy:Challenges and Opportunities,” at a conferenceat the University of Montreal on March 5. Hetook part in a workshop on American Society andWar at Harvard-MIT, March 27. At the AnnualConference of the International StudiesAssociation (ISA) in New York City on Feb. 19 hepresented a paper on “Strategic Leadership:America’s Global Role Amidst Systemic Change,”and was a discussant in a roundtable on Tom J.Farer’s Confronting Global Terrorism and AmericanNeo-Conservatism. He gave a presentation at aconference on “The Political Economy of GlobalEnergy Transitions” at UC-Berkeley on Jan. 28.

Associate Professor of PPS Anirudh Krishna pre-sented a talk on Oct. 16, 2008, at Yale Universityon “Poverty Flows: understanding how poverty ismade and un-made in contemporary India.” OnJan. 21, he presented a talk on “Future Poverty”

at an international seminar organized by theGovernment of India and the United NationsDevelopment Programme in New Delhi, India.He gave a talk on “The Myth of the Rising Tide:The Failure to Prevent the Growth of Poverty(Almost) Anywhere in the World” on April 14 atUNC, Greensboro, April 21 at UNC, Chapel Hill,and April 24 at the University of Michigan atAnn Arbor.

Helen “Sunny” F. Ladd received a grant fromSmith Richardson Foundation for a project enti-tled “Schooling in the Netherlands: What theUnited States Can Learn about School Choice,School Finance, and Educating Immigrants.”Ladd spent the spring term as a visiting researcherat the University of Amsterdam studying theDutch education system. On March 17, she gavea presentation on accountability to the first meet-ing of the Organization for Economic Co-opera-tion and Development Network in London. On March 1 she gave a presentation on her paperco-authored with Douglas Lauren on “Status vs.Growth: The Distributional Effects of SchoolAccountability Policies” at the Center for theEconomics of Education at the London School of Economics.

Alex Pfaff, associate professor of PPS, gave apresentation Feb. 11 on “Evaluating Defor esta -tion Impacts of Protected Areas” at StanfordUniversity at a conference on ConnectingAmazon Protected Areas and Indigenous Landsto REDD Frameworks.

Laura Roselle, visiting professor, served as dis -cussant for a workshop, presented two papers and chaired the International CommunicationSection’s business meeting at the InternationalStudies Association meeting in New York, Feb.14-19. The papers she presented were “FlagsFlying, Guns Blazing: Patriotic Messages DuringConflict” and “Conflict Models and Cyberinfra -structure Policy.” As president of the Interna -tional Communication Section of ISA for 2008-2009, she oversaw a membership drive and thedevelopment of a cooperative relationship withthe Information Technology Policy section of theAmerican Political Science Association.

Anthony So, professor of the practice of PPS,gave opening remarks April 3 at the meeting ofthe Institute of Medicine of the NationalAcademies in Washington, D.C., on “The U.S.Commitment to Global Health.” He also moder-ated a panel on “Sharing information, knowledgeand materials.” On Jan. 13 he delivered a talkentitled “Public Funding of Clinical Trials” in

Trans-Atlantic Consumer Dialogue organized byKnowledge Ecology International (KEI) inWashington. He gave a talk titled “Access toEssential Medicines” to PharmFree LeadershipInstitute in Reston, Va., on Feb. 8. On Nov. 20,2008 So presented on “Research and Develop mentin Antibiotic Resistance” at the second AdvisoryMeeting on Antibiotic Resistance of the WorldAlliance for Patient Safety, WHO, in Geneva. Heorganized and chairs the organization’s WorkingGroup on Research & Development.

Jacob L. Vigdor associate professor of PPS, gave apresentation on his paper “The Economic After -math of Hurricane Katrina” at UNC, Chapel Hill inOctober, at Northwestern University and George -town University in December, and Syra cuse Uni -versity on Feb. 2. He presented his paper “Scalingthe Digital Divide: Home Computer Technologyand Student Achievement,” co-authored withCharles Clotfelter and Helen Ladd, at Harvard’sProgram on Education Governance and PolicyDec. 10 in Boston, the University of Chicago Jan.26, and Syracuse University Feb. 2. He presentedhis paper “Causal Inference when AssignmentMay Have Been Random: Peer Effects in NorthCarolina Elementary Schools” co-authored withThomas Nechyba at the American EconomicAssociation annual meeting on Jan. 4 in SanFrancisco. He served as a discussant at aVanderbilt University conference “RethinkingTeacher Retirement Benefit Systems” on Feb. 19.

Associate Professor of PPS and director of theCenter for Health Policy Kathryn Whetten hasreceived a $50,000 grant from Emory Universityfor support of the North Carolina HIV/AIDSTraining and Information Center.

Jonathan B. Wiener, professor of PPS and law,was inducted as a Fellow of the Society for RiskAnalysis in December 2008. He gave a presenta-tion, “Can We Adopt and Implement a SuccessfulComprehensive Cap-and-Trade Climate Policy?Yes We Can,” at the Feb. 20 conference onClimate Policy for the Obama Administration,Washington & Lee University. He presented on“Prices and Property as Instruments for GlobalClimate Policy,” at the Local Property, GlobalJustice conference at Duke on Jan. 30. He servedas president and conference chair at the Societyfor Risk Analysis (SRA) Annual Meeting inBoston Dec. 7-10; as speaker and chair, annualawards luncheon; session chair, “RegulatoryReform in the European Union;” and sessionspeaker, “10 Ideas to Improve RegulatoryOversight in the Obama Administration.”

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Anna Gassman-Pines, assistant professor ofPPS, met with Hirokazu Yoshikawa during hisvisit to the Institute March 25 as a SulzbergerDistinguished Lecturer. The scholars have writ-ten several co-authored papers. Yoshikawaspoke on “Immigrants Raising Citizens: TheSecond Generation’s First Years of Life.” TheSulzberger lecture is hosted by the Center forChild and Family Policy.

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Ellen Mickiewicz, James R. ShepleyProfessor of PPS, spent two weeks inMarch and April as a visiting professorat the Moscow University for Inter -national Relations, lecturing and meet-ing with the vice president and dean.She also gave an invited lecture atMoscow State University. Her mostrecent book, Television, Power andthe Russian Public, received a fea-tured review in Slavic Review.


Alumni News

By Jackie Ogburn

Daniel Kight (MPP ’08) isn’t amember of the Coast Guard, but heflew in one of their helicopters any-way as part of his job with theDepartment of Home land Security.

As a Homeland Security PolicyHonors Fellow, Kight spent eightmonths as the advance representa-tive for Secretary Janet AnnNapolitano. When the secretarytravels, Kight does the advance work,going to the location ahead of timeto organize logistics of the trip.

“If the secretary is going to dosomething, I need to do it first,” hesaid. His helicopter experiencepreceded Napolitano’s flyover ofthe Los Angeles/Long Beach portcomplex. Kight rode in a Coast

Guard Dolphin helicopter to makesure the route covered all thepoints she was interested in and totake notes for the briefing reporthe was preparing.

“It’s been a wild ride,” Kightsays of his work so far. He’s trav-eled to hurricane recovery sites inthe Gulf Coast and flood zones inIowa, as well as to Mexico City,London, Paris and Berlin. Kightstarted in November 2008, workingwith Secretary Michael Chertoff.In addition to doing advance work,he also helps with the secretary’sdaily briefing book. “One featureof this job is on any given day, Ihave a five minute period with thesecretary,” he said. “I get to knowthem personally, in short bursts.”

During the transition between

administrations, Kight was one ofthe few staffers left in place. It wasthe first such transition for thedepartment created in 2003, sothere were no established proce-dures for handling the work beforeall the new staffers came on board.

During Kight’s two-year fellow-ship, he will serve in three posi-tions for eight months each. The 30fellows in the leadership develop-ment program are posted to any ofthe 20 different sections of DHS.Kight’s final post will start in early2010 in the Office of Policy.

Starting in May 2009, he’ll be

assigned to the Secure Communi tiesprogram in the Immigration andCustoms Enforcement Agency, a newprogram that intends to modernizeand im prove processes for identify -ing and deporting illegal aliens withcriminal records. Kight said he’slooking forward to being involvedin this program, in part because itdirectly relates to his MPP projectresearch. His MPP project report foran immigrant advocacy group, ElPueblo, concerned a similar type ofenforcement program.“I’ve shownmy thesis to several officialsalready,” he said.

Alumnus Profile: Daniel Kight (MPP ’08)

R eunion Weekend always offers apacked schedule of tours, gather-ings and presentations for alum-

ni to enjoy, and this year the SanfordInstitute added events to the mix.Several Sanford faculty members tookpart in presentations throughout theweekend of April 17-19.

To kick off the weekend, Alex Harris,professor of the practice of PPS and co-founder of the Center for Docu mentaryStudies, discussed the importance of theenvironment in the arts with filmmakerRoss Spears (’69) on Friday afternoon.Spears’ new documentary series, Appa - lachia: a History of Moun tains and People,aired on PBS in April. The two pointedout ways that documentary films cantackle environmental issues withoutturning away the audience by showing both thebeauty and the threats.

On Saturday, two Sanford faculty membersgave concurrent sessions in the morning.Professor of PPS and Director of the Centerfor Child and Family Policy Ken Dodge waspart of the panel discussion titled Drinking on

Campus and Policy Solutions, along with PhilipCostanzo, associate director of CFP and pro-fessor of psychology and neuroscience, as wellas other Duke faculty and administrators.Raising the drinking age to 21 decades ago hascreated challenges for college campuses andthe effectiveness of the policy is still hotly

debated. The panel considered the implica-tions of reversing the policy.

In the Griffin Theater, a crowd of almost200 heard Professor of PPS and Political Sci -ence Bruce Jentleson give an initial assess-ment of the Obama administration’s foreignpolicy approach. From terrorism, wars in Iraqand Afghanistan, the global financial crisis,human rights, global warming and the meet-ing with the G-20 leaders, in his first 88 days,Obama pursued a number of major shifts fromthe previous administration policies. Obama’schallenge now, Jentleson said, is to craft acoherent overall foreign policy strategy.

On the lawn between Sanford and Ruben -stein buildings, the Public Policy Majors Unionhosted a reception. The guest speaker wasNeil Newhouse (’74), founder of Public Opin -ion Strategies, a political and public affairspolling company. A Washington insider whohas twice been listed on the “Money 20” oftop political consultants, Newhouse sharedhis perspective on the Obama administra-tion’s policy directions. Sanford Institute Di -rector Bruce Kuniholm delivered the latestnews about becoming a school.

Gathering during the Sanford alumni reception onApril 18 are, from left, Jason Pate (PPS ’09), MajorsUnion President; Neil Newhouse (’74), founder ofPublic Opinion Strategies; Bruce Kuniholm, SanfordInstitute director; and Greg Feltman (PPS ’09),Majors Union vice president.

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D id you know that formerHart Fellow Seyward Darby(T ’07) put her own slant

on this year’s March Madness ina recent issue of The New Repub licmagazine? Or that Preeti Aroon(MPP ’06) blogs for Foreign Policymagazine? If you had receivedthe first issue of the new Sanfordalumni e-mail newsletter, you’d bein the know about these and oth -er activities of former classmates.

The first e-newsletter wentout April 3 to more than 3,900Sanford alumni. Each bimonthlyissue of the alumni newsletterwill include alumni notes, schoolevents, and faculty news andresearch. MPP and PPS alumninotes, formerly in Focus, willnow be updated more frequentlyon the Sanford website. Thesechanges are taking place as theInstitute becomes Duke’s tenthschool and begins more activeengagement with alumni.

If you did not receive the e-newsletter, we may need yourupdated e-mail address. Pleasesign up at the Institute’s web site:www.pubpol.duke.edu/news/newsletters/. To share your pro-fessional and personal news,please send a message to NicoleKubinsky at nicole.kubinsky@ duke.edu.

The master’s class of 2009posted an impressive 79 per-cent participation rate fordonations to the SanfordAnnual Fund, inspiring 19other gifts that lifted the fund.MPP students dedicated theirclass gifts to outgoing Directorof Graduate Studies Frederick“Fritz” Mayer. Leading theeffort with organizationalefforts and gifts were (back,from left), Will Seilheimerand Devin O'Connor; and(front, from left) LucyMelcher, Rebecca Rose,Alesha Daughtrey, andClaudia Paccieri. Additionalcommittee members not pic-tured are Jeremy Block, Andrea Clark, Jeremy Cluchey, Mattias Lindstrom, Ben Mann, Robin McAlisterand Javier Ochoa. Fellow PIDP and MPP classmates who contributed:*

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Jaejune RyuShawn SelleckCatherine ShamesAnita SharmaAnju SharmaGeorge SheltonPia SimonsenKilho SongSaori TokuokaAbbie TurianksyJeremy WilsonRita Zota* As of May 1, 2009

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Duke University Founders’ DayThe Sanford School joins theDuke University community

for the annual celebration of Duke’s founding.

Added highlights include:

• Presentations by leading policy experts

• Policy briefings on health, energy and environmental

policy with faculty and alumni

• Social events with alumni, faculty, staff and students

• Duke Football vs. Virginia Tech

• Toast to the new school

Nov. 9, 2009Fareed

Zakaria,editor and

columnist forInternationalNewsweek,

host of CNN’sweekly foreign affairs program,

“Fareed Zakaria GPS,” andauthor of The Post-American

World, delivers theSanford/Phillips Lecture.

April 16-18, 2010Reunion Weekend,

for returning undergraduate alumni in class years ending in 0 and 5, will feature public

policy faculty and alumniin panel discussions.

Throughout the yearCoffee with the Dean

provides an opportunity toengage with experts in

global governance, media,social policy, international

development, philanthropyand other policy arenas

through a series of morning dialogues.

Updates on these events andother plans in the works will beposted on the Sanford website:

www.pubpol.duke.edu.Alumni can also look for

updates in the new, bimonthly Sanford Alumni E-Newsletter.

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