On Tuesday, May 25th, the UCR School of Public Policy will hold a virtual debate on the question: “Should the federal government make COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory?” Two teams of UC Riverside public policy students will be debating the pros and cons of mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations. The debaters include: Zara Ali, Associated Students of UCR (ASUCR)...
On Friday, May 28th, the UCR School of Public Policy will be holding a virtual seminar on “How to Fight the Global Security Threat of Disinformation” by Tara Haelle . According to Haelle, the proliferation and increasing prominence of misinformation, pseudoscience, and conspiracy theories in our daily lives and in political discourse represent one of...
On the latest episode of Policy Chats, Susan Hackwood, Director of the Science to Policy program at UC Riverside, talks with UCR public policy students about bridging the gap between science and public policy. Science to Policy (S2P) “is founded on the idea that scientists can and should play a critical role in public policy,”...
On Tuesday, May 11th, the UCR School of Public Policy (SPP) will host a talk by second-year public policy major Sana Jaffery on “The Power of Policy Research and Publication at the Undergraduate Level.” This event is part of the SPP Student Spotlight Series. Jaffery will present on the importance of policy research and publication...
On Thursday, May 13th, the UCR School of Public Policy will be holding a virtual seminar on “Missing More Than a Classroom: The Impact of COVID-19 School Closures on the Nutrition of School-aged Children” by Artur Borkowski and Javier Santiago Ortiz Correa . Borkowski and Santiago will share data from Brazil and India, access to...
On the latest episode of Policy Chats, Richard Carpiano, a UC Riverside professor of public policy and sociology, talks with UCR public policy students about vaccine hesitancy, herd immunity, and the possibility of vaccine passports. “The vaccines are incredibly safe, they're incredibly well monitored, and they're incredibly effective,” Carpiano said. According to his profile...
On Monday, April 19th, the UCR School of Public Policy will be holding a virtual seminar on “History and Prospects for Black Leaders in a Racialized State Department” by Dr. Jennifer Brinkerhoff. Brinkerhoff will share data on African American Ambassadors from 1949 to 2020 presented as W.E.B. Du Bois-inspired data visualizations, and a historical review...
The latest podcast episode of Policy Chats features a discussion with Lieutenant Governor of California Eleni Kounalakis. She talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about her accomplished career in public service. When discussing what inspired Kounalakis to enter a career in public service she said, “Honoring and respecting the fact...
On Tuesday, March 9th, the UCR School of Public Policy (SPP) will host a talk by second-year public policy major Vivek Kakar on “ Planting Seeds and Lifting Voices: Establishing the Roosevelt Network at UCR. ” This event is part of the SPP Student Spotlight Series. Kakar, who is the Founding Executive Director, will present...
On Thursday, March 2nd, the UCR School of Public Policy will be hosting a virtual seminar on “COVID-19’s Impact on Detention Centers” by Lizbeth Abeln, Deportation Defense Programs Manager for the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice (IC4IJ) . According to her profile , Abeln “ utilizes her experience working personally with immigrant communities and gives...
A new podcast episode of Policy Chats features a discussion with theoretical and evolutionary biologist and professor Carl Bergstrom about the era of "fake news" and how to combat disinformation. Author of “Calling Bullshit” , Bergstrom teaches at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, and studies a wide range of problems in population biology...
On Thursday, March 4th, the UCR School of Public Policy will be holding a virtual seminar on “Gender Equity & Policy,” by Marisol Franco, the Director of Programs at the Women’s Foundation of California . According to her profile , Franco is “ responsible for leading curriculum and program development for the Women’s Policy Institute...
On Thursday, March 4, t he University of California, Riverside (UCR) School of Public Policy will host a talk by Kat Devlin , a Research Associate of the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project, about the Center’s recent work using computational social science and social media to evaluate what lawmakers around the world think about...
In a new podcast episode of Policy Chats , Audrey Irmas Director of the LGBTQ, Gender & Reproductive Justice Project at the ACLU of Southern California Amanda Goad talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about transgender policies and protections. According to her profile , Goad “fights for the rights and...
On Thursday, February 25th, the UCR School of Public Policy will be hosting a virtual seminar on “ Research, Policy, and Advocacy: A Conversation about Education Equity in California ,” by Mayra Lara, associate director of educator engagement at The Education Trust - West . According to her profile , Lara “works closely with County...
A new podcast episode of Policy Chats features a discussion with University of California, Riverside (UCR) professor of political science Ben Bishin about what to expect from a divided Congress entering President Biden’s first term in office. According to his profile , Bishin’s interests reside i n questions of democracy, representation, identity and ethnicity, public...
On Wednesday, February 24th, the UCR School of Public Policy will be hosting a virtual seminar on “The Role of Public Policy in Challenging Times: An Introduction to APPAM,” by Tara Sheehan, executive director of the Association of Public Policy Analysis & Management . According to her profile , “Sheehan has served as the Executive...
On Thursday, February 18th, the Presley Center of Crime & Justice Studies , t he Blum Initiative on Global and Regional Poverty , and the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside , will be hosting an exclusive conversation with Sandra Smith about how pretrial detention informs future criminal justice involvement. Smith is...
“Community service and preventative services should always be key in order to alleviate the problems of society,” Director of Public Social Services in Riverside County Sayori Baldwin said as a guest in a new podcast episode of Policy Chats . Holding a master’s degree in public administration, Baldwin has a wealth of experience in the...
Following the 2020 election, a new podcast episode of Policy Chats features a discussion with Kevin Esterling, a professor of political science and public policy at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) about utilizing technology to bridge the communication gap between constituents and representatives as well as rifts in the Democratic Party . Esterling is...
