Dr. Bryce Hannibal, an assistant research scientist at the Texas A&M Bush School of Government and Public Service, is investigating how social network communication and collaboration affect flood resilience. The study is the first to apply network analysis to resilience efforts and is receiving a two-year roughly $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. The […]
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Rosowsky, ISTPP Fellow, Publishes in Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure
Dr. David Rosowsky, ISTPP fellow and professor of civil engineering at the University of Vermont, discusses possible definitions of resiliency in the context of civil engineering projects and their response to natural hazards in his paper, “Defining Resilience”. Dr. Rosowsky highlights that, across a variety of ways of defining resilience, there exists a common understanding […]
Drs. Liu, Mumpower, Portney, and Vedlitz Publish in Risk, Hazard & Crisis in Public Policy
ISTPP researchers, Drs. Xinsheng Liu, Jeryl Mumpower, Kent Portney, and Arnold Vedlitz, have published their research, “Perceived Risk of Terrorism and Policy Preferences for Government Counterterrorism Spending: Evidence from a U.S. National Panel Survey,” in Risk, Hazard & Crisis in Public Policy. Using data from a national two-wave panel survey, the authors investigate how individual social-economic-political […]
ISTPP Researchers Hannibal and Vedlitz Publish in Sociological Spectrum
ISTPP researchers Dr. Bryce Hannibal and Dr. Arnold Vedlitz recently published a paper titled “Social Capital, Knowledge, and the Environment: the Effect of Interpersonal Communication on Climate Change Knowledge and Policy Preferences” in Sociological Spectrum. Drs. Hannibal and Vedlitz seek to identify relationships between interpersonal discussion networks and an individual’s assessed and perceived scientific knowledge of […]
Dr. Xinsheng Liu Named Changjiang Scholar
Dr. Xinsheng Liu, Research Scientist and Assistant Director of the Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, was recently named a Changjiang Scholar by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China and the Li Ka Shing Foundation through a […]
Researchers Receive Grant to Study Social Implications of Developing Gene Drive Technologies
Researchers at Texas A&M University are among four research teams awarded a total of $2 million to study gene drive and gene editing technologies. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) made the awards. Other institutions participating in the NIFA program are the University of Florida, Iowa State University, […]
Dr. Bryce Hannibal Named LINKS Center Fellow
Dr. Hannibal, ISTPP Assistant Research Scientist, has been named a Fellow of the LINKS Center for Social Network Analysis, Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky. He received this recognition for his outstanding dedication to social network analysis and to the LINKS Center. Hannibal has participated in multiple advanced workshops on network analysis […]
Dr. Xinsheng Liu Presents Research at MPSA Conference
Dr. Xinsheng Liu, ISTPP Research Scientist and Assistant Director, presented the research paper “Bureaucratic Influence in National Policy Agenda Setting Process: Evidence from Congressional Hearings on Global Warming and Climate Change” at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 5-8, 2018. This paper, coauthored with Dr. Bryce Hannibal (ISTPP Assistant Research […]
Dr. Bryce Hannibal Gives Invited Talk at BYU Research
Dr. Bryce Hannibal, ISTPP Assistant Research Scientist, gave an invited talk, “Examining the Mediating influence of Interlocking Board Networks on Grant Making in Public Foundations,” to the MPA faculty at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah on April 5, 2018. This paper is co-authored with Dr. Laurie Paarlberg from the Bush School and Dr. Jasmin […]
ISTPP Collaborates with TAMU Law School & TWRI for Texas-Mexico Groundwater Governance Report
ISTPP collaborated with the Program in Natural Resources Systems in the Texas A&M University School of Law and the Texas Water Resources Institute to study the complexity of the governance structure that oversees the up to 15 transboundary aquifers along the Texas-Mexico border. The resulting report, “Survey of Legal Mechanisms Relating to Groundwater Along the […]