Academics

During the past summer, Dr. Jessica Gottlieb and three student interns from the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University traveled to the West African country of Senegal to conduct two months of intensive field work and research.  Based out of a local research institute in Dakar, the nation’s capital, the team sought to understand how local elites—religious, traditional, or political leaders—can wield their influence to guide voters’ decisions, even when it goes against the voters’ best interests.

On June 17-18, the Bush School’s Certificate in Homeland Security program and the Emergency Services Training Institute in the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) co-sponsored a Homeland Security Seminar, the first such joint effort at Texas A&M University.

Members of the sixth class of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) National Security Leadership Program (NSLP) were presented with the Certificate in National Security Affairs by LLNL director, Bill Goldstein, on June 17 during a ceremony at the Bush School.

Scott Robinson, associate professor at the University of Oklahoma, and the Bush School’s Executive Associate Dean Arnold Vedlitz have been awarded the 2014 Herbert Kaufman Best Paper Award by the American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Public Administration Section.

On May 8, graduate certificates were awarded to Bush School students who completed a certificate program. The ceremony was held in the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library’s Orientation Theater.

Some 115 students earned certificates during the summer and fall of 2013 and the spring of 2014 semesters.

On Saturday, May 10, the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University will reach another landmark as its 1,038th graduate crosses the stage in Reed Arena.  Less than twenty years since its founding, the School has grown dramatically.

From November 2013 until May 2014, Dr. Kishore Gawande led a Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University, student Capstone project evaluating two development programs in the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) – a nation fraught with civil war since the early 1990s.

The end of the spring semester saw Bush School students recognized for their extra efforts in leadership and writing development.  On April 22, Dean Crocker, along with Professors Joe Cerami, Larry Napper, and Bill West; lecturer Sally Dee Wade; and leadership and writing portfolio program assistants, Holly Kasperbauer and Kara Socol, presented awards for the Writing Portfolio Project and the Dean’s Certificate in Leadership.