Dr. Bryce Hannibal of ISTPP has been appointed to a three-year term as a Fellow of the Institute for Sustainable Communities (IfSC) at Texas A&M University. IfSC brings together scholars from across A&M to collaborate on interdisciplinary research, engagement, and high impact service learning. IfSC’s Fellows program recognizes scholars who have made notable and valuable […]
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Dr. Bryce Hannibal Attends Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) Workshop
Dr. Hannibal, ISTPP Assistant Research Scientist, was invited to participate in the development of SESYNC’s Data to Motivate Synthesis project at the University of Maryland at Annapolis in August. The purpose of this workshop is to gain insight on research methods, focusing on the food-energy-water nexus. While the outcomes and next steps are not publicly […]
ISTPP Fellow Teodoro Evaluates Public Agency Branding on Public Perception
Dr. Manuel Teodoro, an ISTPP Research Fellow and Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, and Seung-Ho An, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science, recently published a paper titled “Citizen-Based Brand Equity: A Model and Experimental Evaluation” in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. Adapting a model from commercial marketing, Teodoro […]
Bush School Professors Awarded University T3 Grant
Dr. Kent E. Portney and Dr. Ann Bowman have been awarded one of the first “Texas A&M Triads for Transformation,” or T3 grants, along with Dr. Sierra Woodruff in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning. T3 is a multidisciplinary program that provides funding of $30,000 to groups of three faculty members (triads) in […]
ISTPP’s Hannibal Publishes in Journal of Social Science for Policy Implications
ISTPP’s Dr. Bryce Hannibal recently published a paper titled “Citizens’ Decision-Making Frameworks on Climate Change Policy Preferences” with Dr. Tabitha Morton from Prairie View A&M University in the Journal of Social Science for Policy Implications. The authors examine knowledge and emotional effects on citizens’ climate change mitigation policy preferences. Analyzing data from ISTPP’s National Public Climate […]
Dr. Kent Portney Named to Bullock Chair
Professor Kent Portney has been named to the Bob Bullock Chair of Public Policy and Finance at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. Portney came to the Bush School in 2014 and was named director of the Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy in 2016. As a member […]
Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy Team Presents Research at SPSA Annual Conference
Research by members of the ISTPP team, Drs. Portney, Hannibal, and Liu, was presented at the annual Southern Political Science Association Conference held in New Orleans, LA, January 4-6, 2018. Director Portney presented a paper co-authored with Assistant Research Scientist Dr. Hannibal, “Urban Governance and Sustainability through the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Evidence from the San Antonio […]
Researchers Awarded NSF Grant to Study Hurricane Harvey Infrastructure and Planning Vulnerabilities
In August 2017, Houston suffered catastrophic flooding from Hurricane Harvey. The National Science Foundation has funded a study by an interdisciplinary team of Texas A&M University researchers led by Dr. Ali Mostafavidarani in the Department of Civil Engineering. The team will include Dr. Arnold Vedlitz of the Bush School and Dr. Bryce Hannibal, who is […]
Dr. Portney and Colleagues Publish in Sustainability
Kent Portney, ISTPP Director, and his co-authors, doctoral student Bassel Daher and Drs. Mohtar, Pistikopoulos, Kaiser and Saad, published their article on STEP solutions to water-energy-food (WEF) Nexus Hotspots in the journal Sustainability. The authors propose using a 3-Filter STEP (Socio-Techno-Economic-Political) framework for identifying planning and management solutions that incorporate multiple layers of bio-physical WEF systems […]
Dr. Vedlitz, Distinguished ISTPP Research Scholar, and Co-authors Publish in British Journal of Political Science
Drs. Paul Kellstedt, Mark Ramirez, Arnold Vedlitz, and Sammy Zahran published their research on value conflict in public opinion related to mitigating climate change. Using national survey data collected as part of an ISTPP NOAA funded project, the authors test the roles of specific issue domain knowledge and general cognitive ability on attitudes toward global warming and […]