Congratulations to Dr. Joshua Hyman, Assistant Professor, on receiving a grant from the Spencer Foundation for his study No Child Left Relaxed? The Effect of Test –Based Accountability on Childhood Anxiety and Mental Health.
The Department of Public Policy congratulates Kerri Raissian for being awarded the 2016 Raymond Vernon Memorial Award for her paper “Hold Your Fire: Did the 1996 Federal Gun Control Act Expansion Reduce Domestic Homicides?” The paper was published in the Winter 2016 issue of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM). Kerri is an Assistant Professor in the Department whose research focuses on child and family policy to understand how policies affect fertility, family formation, and family violence.