Despite decades of efforts to clean up the Great Lakes, pollutants are entering them every day from what might seem like an unexpected source: the air. Ron Hites, a professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, and the project he leads with research scientist Ilora Basu, recently received a $5 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to continue work that both influences environmental policy and documents the effects of changes to it.
John D. Graham, dean of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, was inducted into the National Academy of Public Administration this week at the Academy's 2009 Fall meeting.
The Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Network (IADN) project is led at IU by Ronald Hites, Distinguished Professor, and by Ilora Basu, a research scientist in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs. The project began in 1990 under an agreement between the U.S. EPA and Environment Canada. Indiana University has been in charge of the U.S. portion of the study since 1994. The grant announced today continues the project for five years.
The Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) will name the atrium of its IU Bloomington building for one of the school's best-known and most distinguished alumni: TV and radio host, author, philanthropist, advocate and documentary filmmaker Tavis Smiley.A renaming and dedication ceremony will take place Oct. 30.
David Reingold, a professor and associate dean for Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs who studies low-income housing, said few communities in the U.S. have been able to maintain mixed-income housing. Also, attracting higher-income residents to the area will depend upon whether there's enough of a market in Indianapolis to support a green community.
Professor Elinor Ostrom today became the first woman to win the Nobel prize for economics. The prize committee cited Prof. Ostrom for her analysis of economic governance, especially how common property can be successfully managed by user associations.
Indiana University students will learn about global environmental issues and develop their Russian language skills and IU faculty members will find opportunities for research collaboration with Russian scientists and scholars under a new, federally funded project.
John D. Graham, dean of the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, announced today (Oct. 5) the establishment of the SPEA Dean's Advisory Council, a group of respected leaders from business, government and the nonprofit sector.
Irving Kristol, the writer, editor, and publisher who died Friday at the age of 89, will be best remembered as the intellectual “godfather” of “neoconservatism,” a set of ideas many credit with reviving the Republican Party in the 1980s and shaping public debate over issues as far apart as welfare and U.S. policy in the Middle East.
Professor Chris Craft was named the Janet Duey Professor in Rural Land Policy,a professorship created to address issues endangering rural land in the United States.
John W. Ryan, whose 16-year presidency of Indiana University was distinguished by growth and stability, the expansion of international programs and the development of campuses across the state, has been awarded the University Medal, IU's highest nonacademic award.
Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Paul H. O'Neill will visit Bloomington and Indianapolis September 15-16 as a guest of the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
Congress may approve health reform legislation this year, but it remains to be seen whether the changes will stem the rising tide of health-care costs that is threatening the U.S. economy.
Media fascination with the government's new "cash for clunkers" program is diverting public attention from President Obama's extraordinary long-term intervention into the automotive sector of the U.S. economy, argues SPEA Dean John Graham in a recent publication.
President Barak Obama's health-reform proposal takes important steps, says Professor Eric Wright, but it my not change the behaviors that lead to high health-care costs.
The woodland campus of Indiana University Bloomington has been celebrated for its natural beauty for more than a century. A new publication from the IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs will help students and visitors better understand what makes the campus special.
Participants in the SPEA energy conference,"The Search for Wise Energy Policy," in Washington, D.C., didn't actually find one, but some general themes of action emerged.
The U.S. auto industry does have a chance, says SPEA Dean John Graham, but they must do certain things well. Find out what key issues have to be addressed--and even then, there are no guarantees.
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