Brown Bag Lunch Series

BROWN BAG LUNCH SESSION
Thursdays, 12:30-1:30 PM
Abernethy, 1st Floor Conference Room

Interested in having lunch with policy professionals from a wide range of fields? Come to a Brown-Bag Lunch Session!

These lunches are organized by Dr. Gail Corrado, Director of Undergraduate Studies for Public Policy. Lunches will be held Thursdays, from 12:30-1:30pm in the first floor conference room of Abernethy. Students will need to bring their own lunch.

Spaces are limited, so hurry and sign up by emailing Dr. Corrado at gcorrado@email.unc.edu with the lunches that you would like to attend, ranked by preference.

The first lunch is this coming Thursday, February 14th, 2008.
Dr. David Heinen (NC Non-Profit) will be speaking about non-profit agencies in NC, their focus, and their needs. He'll also discuss how to secure an internship from a non-profit.


Future Lunches

February 28, 2008
Mr. Hodding Carter, UNC Public Policy. Mr. Carter will be discussing immigration policy.

March 6, 2008
Ms. M. Broun, Guardian Ad Litum, Member, Dispute Settlement. Ms. Broun will speak about child advocacy needs in NC and about dispute settlement as an alternative to litigation.

March 20, 2008
Adam Feibelman , Associate Professor of Law, will speak about the policy implications of bankruptcy law.

March 27, 2008
Dr. C. Kidwell, Chair, American Indian Institute. Dr. Kidwell will talk about the policy issues concerning American Indian tribes in North Carolina.

April 10, 2008
Ken Broun, Professor of Law, UNC. Mr. Broun will be speaking both about his experience as former mayor of Chapel Hill, about the book he is writing on Nelson Mandella.

April 17, 2008
[Open --- but potentially, Judith Labiner of the FDA remotely from DC]

April 24, 2008
Dr. Richard (Pete) Andrews, Chair of the Department of Public Policy. Dr. Andrews will be speaking about the state of public policy study at UNC.

Policy Tea with Saskia Sassen

Policy Tea Time

Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar

Professor Saskia Sassen,

Columbia University

February 4, 2008

4:00-5:15pm

Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence

(Graham Memorial Rm 011)

Please come take advantage of this opportunity to ask her about her work on globalization (including social, economic and political dimensions), immigration, global cities (including cities and terrorism), the new networked technologies, and changes within the liberal state that result from current transnational conditions. She is also giving a public talk at the Global Education Center from 8:00-9:00pm that evening. Her biography is below:

Saskia Sassen is at Columbia University, The Committee on Global Thought, after a decade at the University of Chicago. She is also a Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Her latest book is Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press 2006). She has just completed for UNESCO a five-year project on sustainable human settlement for which she set up a network of researchers and activists in over 30 countries; it is published as one of the volumes of the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (Oxford, UK: EOLSS Publishers) [http://www.eolss.net ]. Other recent books are the 3rd. fully updated Cities in a World Economy (Sage 2006), A Sociology of Globalization (Norton 2007), and the co-edited Digital Formations: New Architectures for Global Order (Princeton University Press 2005). The Global City came out in a new fully updated edition in 2001. Her books are translated into sixteen languages. She serves on several editorial boards and is an advisor to several international bodies. She is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Cities, and Chair of the Information Technology and International Cooperation Committee of the Social Science Research Council (USA). Her comments have appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, Le Monde Diplomatique, the International Herald Tribune, Newsweek International,Vanguardia, Clarin, the Financial Times, among others.

Career Panel

Ever wonder what you’re going to do AFTER you graduate?

C A R E E R

P A N E L

with UNC Alumni

Tuesday, January 29^th
6:00-8:o0 pm Phillips 367

Panelists from a wide variety of fields:
Health Policy Research
Business & entrepreneurship
Politics & Government

Science & ITS

Our panelists can tell you how they got where they are, & help you figure out how to get where YOU want to go!

Business casual dress, hosted by Public Policy Majors’ Union

Career Panel Guests

Remember, the Career Panel will be held from 6-8 PM on Tuesday January 29 in Phillips 367. Light refreshments will be provided. Bring a friend and any questions you have for our panelists!

Panelists include:

Carolyn Sexton, an outreach specialist with Health Check/NC Health Choice. Health Check/NC Health choice is an organization that works to provide children with health insurance, quality health care and prescription medications. More information at http://www.nchealthystart.org/outreach/index.html.

Nick Goettsch, a consultant with MAXIMUS. MAXIMUS is a firm that assists governments that want to manage programs better, secure additional federal funds, develop new policies, or procure new technologies. They offer services in Program Management and Operations, Consulting, and Systems. More information at http://www.maximus.com/corporate/pages/index.asp.

Tola Atewologun, a budget analyst with the Social Security Administration, an office of the federal government which manages the Social Security program. More information at http://www.ssa.gov/aboutus/.

Nathan West, a health policy researcher for RTI International. RTI is one of the world's leading research institutes and is located in Research Triangle Park. RTI offers innovative research and technical solutions to governments and businesses worldwide in the areas of health and pharmaceuticals, education and training, surveys and statistics, advanced technology, democratic governance, economic and social development, energy, and the environment. More information at http://www.rti.org/index.cfm.

John Hardin, Ph.D. , Deputy Director and Chief Policy Analyst for the NC Board of Science and Technology. The Board advises and makes recommendations to the North Carolina Governor, General Assembly, Secretary of Commerce, and Economic Development Board on the role of science and technology in the economic growth and development of the state. Dr. Hardin’s duties include research, analysis, and review of substantive policy issues and proposals and making presentations and recommendations that directly affect NC policy. Dr. Hardin is a graduate of UNC’s MA and Ph.D. programs and has been appointed an Adjunct Assistant Professor position in the Department of Political Science. More information at http://www.ncscienceandtechnology.com/.

Leslie Scott, Director of the Institute for Rural Entrepreneurship, part of the NC Rural Economic Development Center. The Institute for Rural Entrepreneurship works to stimulate and support the development of micro, small and medium-size enterprises in NC through its Microenterprise Loan Program, Capital Access Program, and other initiatives. More information at www.ncruralcenter.org .

Office Hours for Spring 2008

Spring 2008 Office Hours
9:00AM - 2:00PM
Abernethy 204A