The Center for Public Policy and Administration is the hub of interdisciplinary public policy research, teaching, and engagement at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

CPPA attracts high-caliber national and international students to its Masters of Public Policy and Administration (MPPA) program. CPPA also offers an undergraduate certicate in public policy available to UMass Amherst students.

Home to a growing number of research initiatives, CPPA houses the National Center for Digital Government; the Science, Technology and Society Initiative; and the Public Engagement Project.

	Charlie Schweik, Associate Professor of Natural Resources Conservation and CPPA, and colleagues in the Computer Science and Natural Resources Conservation departments at UMass Amherst have launched an iPhone application to help save wildlife from the oil spill in the Gulf. [more]
	CPPA and the School of Public Health and Health Sciences have announced a dual degree Master of Public Policy and Administration (MPPA) and Master of Public Health (MPH) program. [more]
	Martha Fuentes-Bautista, assistant professor of communication and public policy, has received a 2010-2011 Faculty Research/Healey Endowment grant. Support from this grant will enable Fuentes-Bautista to conduct a year-long study, “Examining Impacts of Local Broadband Initiatives on Universal Service Goals.” [more]
	Jarice Hanson, Professor of Communication and CPPA Faculty Associate, was one of four professors selected to receive a  Microsoft IMPACT Grant for Blended Learning from the Office of Faculty Development and the Center for Teaching at UMass Amherst. [more]
	Peter Driftmier of Red-Eye Radio spoke with Krista Harper about the recent Hungarian elections. In a podcast Krista dicusses how anti-Roma racism has changed throughout history, the main far right political group in Hungary, and what the recent Hungarian elections mean for the Roma. [more]
	David Mednicoff, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Associate Director of the Program in Social Thought and Political Economy, will talk about his research on the rule of law in Arab societies as part of an inaugural conference being held at Stanford University on May 10-11, 2010. [more]
	Please join us for CPPA's end of the year activities in celebration of the class of 2010. May 12 is the CPPA Capstone Conference. May 13th is the CPPA Graduate Reception at The Blue Heron in Sunderland, and May 14th is Commencement. [more info]
	CPPA is pleased to announce that, beginning summer 2010, we will have a new home in Gordon Hall. The Gordon Hall space includes office space for students and faculty, lecture and seminar rooms, meeting space, and lots of room to grow! Please stay tuned for more information about an open house early in the fall 2010 semester.
	Rosalind Wright, M.D., M.P.H., a professor of medicine and public health at Harvard University, will discuss “The Role of Psychological Stress in Asthma and Other Atopic Disorders” on Thursday, April 22 at 12:30 p.m. in Thompson 620.  This is the final talk in this year’s Mellon-funded CPPA Grants Workshop Speaker Series. [more]
	Researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, including Michael Ash, have released the Toxic 100 Air Polluters (http://toxic100.org), an updated list of the top corporate air polluters in the United States. [more]
	Associate Professor of Political Science Dean Robinson received a 2010 Marion and Jasper Whiting Fellowship in support of his research on policies to address health disparities [more]
	Anna Tomaskovic-Devey '10 has published an article in The Cosmopolitan Review. "A Step Closer to a World Without Nuclear Weapons" explores the current climate surrounding tactical nuclear weapons [more]
	Krista Harper is directing a three-year international research experience project for fifteen undergraduate and graduate students from UMass Amherst and the Five Colleges consortium. This project is funded by the National Science Foundation. [more]
	Jane Fountain was part of a panel presentation on “Governance and Information Technology: From Electronic Government to Information Government” at the Dubai School of Government. The panel coincides with an Arabic release of a book with the same name. [more]
	Christa Drew '11 has been selected for the 2010 Sylvia Rowe Fellowship at the International Food Information Council (IFIC) Foundation in Washington DC. [more]

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