Honoring James MacGregor Burns
April 24

A Conversation with Mickey Edwards and Bill Galston
May 7

The Future of Medicine
Live Taped Discussion with Author Stephen C. Schimpff; Moderated by Douglas J. Besharov
May 12

Carmen Reinhart Testifies before the House Financial Services Committee

Nobel Laureate Thomas Schelling Urges Bush Administration to Change Tack in Dealing with Iran (San Francisco Chronicle)

Carmen Reinhart and Harvard University economist Kenneth Rogoff continue to dominate the news with their study, "Is the 2007 U.S. Sub-Prime Financial Crisis so Different? An International historical Comparison" 
Google News, Feb 08

Philip Cook Named Schelling Visiting Professor for 2008-09

Maryland School of Public Policy ranked 8th in the Nation!
Chronicle of Higher Education

Douglas Besharov writes on The Right Kind of Hand Up
Washington Post

Dean Steve Fetter Speaks on "Climate Change and the Future of Nuclear Energy"
Physics Colloquium
Oct. 30

One of the downsides of reorganizing FEMA and incorporating it into the U.S. Department of Homeland Security becomes quite apparent when a major natural disaster strikes such as the wildfires burning in Los Angeles, says University of Maryland international security expert, I. Mac Destler.

CIER Releases New Report on the US Economic Impacts of Climate Change and the Costs of Inaction

Mac Destler Speaks of Jimmy Carter, 'Peace President' (Baltimore Sun)

Former MSPP Dean Susan Schwab is praised by Fortune Magazine for protecting the nation from protectionism, while crusading for globalization.

Ambassador Susan Schwab to speak on "The Globalization of Public Policy Teaching"

Douglas J. Besharov says the falling Hispanic poverty rate testifies to the ability of Hispanic immigrants to take advantage of the opportunities that they have found in this country.
New York Times

Government & Politics' Ron Walters Comments on Obama at CBC Event, GOP Presidential Debate in Baltimore (Bloomberg News, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)

Robert Nelson Examines Philippine Culture and Economic 'Malaise' (Agence France-Presse)

Trade Scholar Destler Says TPA Renewal Is Dead Until 2009 Without Doha Miracle

Smart Growth's Reid Ewing and Report on Sprawl and Climate Change, 'Growing Cooler,' Gets Wide Notice (Baltimore Sun, Tallahassee Democrat, United Press International, Sacramento Business Journal, Smart Growth Online)

Pioneer in Natural Economics Roy F. Weston Dies at 96

Douglas Besharov discusses New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg' s anti-poverty proposals on NPR's "Talk of the Nation"

Academy of Leadership Receives Major Grant to Develop "Transformational Leadership"

President Bush Appoints Andrew R. Smarick (MPM '01) a White House Fellow

U.S. Climate Policy Blueprint

John Holdren says U.S. near a political tipping point on climate change policy
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Professor John Steinbruner Named Distinguished Scholar-Teacher