Temple's Master of Public Policy (MPP) program hosted expert panelists on April 6th to discuss the intersection between racial equity and environmental policy. The panelists focused on the ways in which race has, and continues to, shape our environmental policy. They highlighted the long history of environmental racism in the United States and discussed the environmental justice movement.The event was moderated by two current MPP students: Alex de Mucha Pino and Dae'Shawn Nixon. They were joined by four esteemed panelists: Raul Garcia (Senior Legislative Counsel...
We asked MPP alumni Jessica Maneely to describe her current job, reflect on her time in the MPP program, and offer advice to current MPP students. Keep reading to learn about Jessica's insights!
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The American Public Human Services Association (APHSA) is a bipartisan, nonprofit membership organization representing state and local health and human service agencies through their top-level leadership. Through our member network, APHSA seeks to influence modern policies and practices that support the health and well-being...
PPL Faculty Fellow Dr. Nyron Crawford was recently awarded a Russell Sage Foundation-Gates Foundation Pipeline Grant for Emerging Scholars. Congratulations Nyron!
Rhiannon Jerch, Viviane Sanfelice, Dimitrios Diamantaras, and Michael Leeds participated in a panel discussion on Income Inequality in America as part of the College of Liberal Arts History Department's Dissent in America Teach-In series. A recording of the program can be found here.
"How Bad Is Crime for Business? Evidence from Consumer Behavior," a paper by Viviane Sanfelice and Hao Fe (San Diego State University) has just been published by the Journal of Urban Economics. A copy of the paper can be found here.
Professor Shreyasee Das was quoted by the Temple News in an article about pay transparency and the gender wage gap. Read the full article in Temple News titled Women deserve pay transparency in the workplace.
Bucha Bio and Simply Good Jars want to change the way we dress, design, manufacture and eat. The two companies are pushing the boundaries of biotech and culinary
The United States is one of only a handful of countries that does not have a paid family leave policy. Currently, women are only able to take paid time off work after a
Afrouz Azadikhah Jahromi has been awarded a Washington Center for Equitable Growth (WCEG) summer fellowship. The WCEG is a non-profit organization "dedicated to advancing evidence-backed ideas and policies that promote strong, stable, and broad-based economic growth. Afrouz completed her Ph.D. in Economics at Temple in 2019 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Economics at Widener University.
On March 15th 2022, Temple's Master of Public Policy program and the College of Education and Human Development hosted panelists and students for a discussion on education policy and advocacy. The forum allowed students to ask esteemed panelists about their career paths and the state of the American education system. Temple University was delighted to welcome Keshema Davidson, Ben Herold, Catie Wolfgang, Tara Woody, Dr. Sarah Cordes, and Kasey Meehan as panelists to discuss their work related to education policy and advocacy. You can view a recording of the discussion here....
"Treatment Effects in Interactive Fixed Effects Models" a paper coauthored by Sonia Karami (Temple Ph.D., 2021), an Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, and Brant Callaway has been accepted for publication by The Journal of Econometrics. An abstract of the paper is available here.
Professor Shreyasee Das has presented her research at several recent conferences:
"Women's Inheritance Rights and Fertility Decisions: Evidence from India" at the 16th Annual Conference on Economics Development and Growth (Virtual) in December 2021 https://www.isid.ac.in/~epu/acegd2021/program.html
"Marriage Market Responses in the event of a Natural Disaster" at the 2022 Sustainable Development Conference in January 2022. https://pheedloop.com/sdc2022/site/home
"Marriage Market Responses in the event of a Natural Disaster" in a poster session at...
Zain Abdullah was selected to be the guest editor for a special issue, Black Muslim Portraiture in the Modern Atlantic, of The Muslim World journal (2020), which was founded in 1911. His design of the cover, with an image of an 1868 painting of a Black Muslim soldier from the Ottoman Empire made history for the Journal and Hartford International University acknowledged the historic moment on their website. It is the first time they ever featured any human image on their cover (not to mention one of a Black subject) since its founding over 100 years ago.
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Professor Joshua Mask has been selected to present his dissertation research at the Northeast Labor Symposium for Early Career Economists (NLS-E) at Princeton University.
If you turn on the television, open a newspaper or visit a news site, it is hard to avoid the sobering statistics around gun violence. Take 2021 in Philadelphia, for
Everyone can recall some positive and negative interactions with peers while growing up. In the Peer Social Networks Lab, directed by Dr. Hongling Xie, we use both quantitative and qualitative methods to study adolescents' peer relationships, including bullying, victimization, popularity, friendships, and social media engagement. For instance, we examined how an adolescent's position in the peer hierarchy (e.g., popularity, likability) may enable them to use different forms of aggression and how peer relationships such as prosocial support may help a victim adjust. A recent...
Andre Toussaint is a doctoral student in the Cognition and Neuroscience Program working in the Memory, Epigenetics, and Addiction Laboratory. Under the guidance of Dr. Mathieu Wimmer, this lab explores neural and molecular underpinnings of addiction-related behaviors and memory formation. Andre studies the long-term consequences of addiction on behavior and physiology across multiple generations. He uses a rodent model to investigate whether paternal morphine exposure could alter addiction vulnerability and opioid pain relief in offspring. Prior to arriving at Temple, Andre...
2021 was the inaugural year for the Mid-Atlantic Neuroscience Diversity Scholars (MiNDS) Program. This program is funded by the National Institutes of Health with the goal of increasing diversity within the neuroscience academic pipeline and building a foundation for URM students to succeed in graduate school and beyond. For the first cohort of students, Temple partnered with Lincoln University, the University of Maryland, and Drexel University to give eight undergraduate students an enhanced research experience. Throughout the summer of 2021, MiNDS scholars worked full-time...
