You're invited! Shanthie Mariet D'Souza is the 2024 Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Chair in Public Policy; Founder Mantraya Institute for Strategic Studies and frequent contributor to The Diplomat on #ClimateChange, #India & #Climate, #Afghanistan UMassIPO UMass Amherst

Should users have the right to decide what they experience on social media? Read @ethanz's compelling argument: RT I Love Facebook. That’s Why I’m Suing Meta. nytimes.com/2024/05/05/opi…

✨Pulitzer Prize Finalist Claire Healy ✨ A huge congratulations to UMass Journalism alum Claire Healy '21 and her team on their Pulitzer Prize finalist story "Searching For Maura." We're so proud of you!

🏆 SPP Team Wins First Place at 2024 Richard Beinecke State Capstone Competition! Congrats to Bareha Abbas, Nicholas Vasconcellos, Jakob Gokey (not pictured), & faculty mentor Marta Vicarelli for their outstanding project on "Coastal Resilience in the Saugus River Watershed."

🎉 Congrats to Harshi for winning the Best Visualization award at the Computational Social Science Poster Session! Her presentation 'Post Protest Reddit Landscape' delves into Reddit's API monetization impact on user communities and the platform's response to protests in 2023.

An Appeal from the UMass Amherst School of Public Policy Faculty and Staff.

🎓✨ Last week we celebrated our 2024 SPP graduates. Special shout out to the recipients of the M.V. Lee Badgett Social Justice Award, Urooj Jeelani and Matt Sorrels, and the Philip Hertz Scholarship, Caitlyn Egan and Yatanar Htun! #UMass #UMassSPP #SPPGraduation #ClassOf2024

The School of Public Policy at UMass Amherst is proud to be a co-host of the 2024 Social Equity Leadership Conference. The conference gathers academics, students, and practitioners focused on "achieving diversity, equity, inclusion, and access in an increasingly divided world."

Congratulations to SPP alum, Jessica Avery MPPA'22 Jessica Avery (she/her) for making this prestigious list of women leaders in the Commonwealth -- and for always making a difference. @masscsw #CH24

#UConnSPP & the NAPA Standing Panel on Social Equity in Governance would like to invite you to the 2024 Social Equity Leadership Conference (SELC), hosted at UConn’s Stamford Campus. Learn more & register on our SELC webpage publicpolicy.uconn.edu/social-equity-…

Congratulations to Jessica Avery, MPPA '22, for being named to the Commonwealth Heroines Class of 2024 by @masscsw. More on the Commonwealth Heroines class: masscsw.org/2024/05/23/con… #umassspp #umass

Police violence can discourage people from interacting with their local government find Kelsey Shoub and @codydrolc wp.me/p3I2YF-dYQ

“When the police sirens fade following a police involved death, communities may go quiet” 📚 In this LSE USAPP blog piece, Kelsey Shoub (UMass Public Policy) and Cody Drolc (University of South Carolina) find that police violence discourages people from interacting with local government 🔗 blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2024…

Congratulations to Natalie Baillargeon, MPPA '25, for being named a 2024 Switzer Foundation Fellow! Natalie is one of twenty fellowship recipients in the Switzer class of 2024. Learn more at umass.edu/public-policy/… #umass #umassspp #publicpolicy #environmentalpolicy #spppride

Libby Sharrow, public policy and history, wins the 2024 APSA Kammerer Award for her book "Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX's Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports." #umass #umassspp #publicpolicy #titleix #equalityunfulfilled

Brittany Houston & Rylyn Williams UMass Public Policy & UM Data Analytics & Computational Social Science presented on trust in policing & algorithmic decision-making at the 2024 Social Equity Leadership Conference (#SELC24) co-hosted by @Umasspolicy & hosted by NAPA & UConn School of Public Policy. Slides/photos: napawash.org/events/save-th…

In a new study, Assistant Professor Marta Vicarelli and coauthors find that NbS are are cost-effective means for mitigating disaster risks and adapting to climate change. umass.edu/news/article/n… #umass #umassspp #nbs #disasterrisk #climateadaptation

🧵We took a deep dive on Project 2025, about which a surprisingly large portion of the electorate is aware, in our new UMass Poll. Many of the Project 2025 proposals we asked about are profoundly unpopular, even among Republicans. umass.edu/news/article/a…

Joya Misra, public policy and sociology, recently published two new articles addressing different aspects of faculty inclusion in higher education spaces. Article links here: ow.ly/Ge2k50SWTJx ow.ly/aNOM50SWTJw #umass #umassspp #higheredpolicy #publicpolicy #inclusion

Prof Alasdair Roberts has published "The Adaptable Country" McGill-Queen's University Press. Not surprising, it's already making waves internationally.