Results of collaborative research by ISTPP Director Arnold Vedlitz, former Associate Director Eric Lindquist, and Ivan Damnjanovic (civil engineering) were presented at the Smart Grid Workshop: Opportunities and Challenges, held April 17, 2013, at Texas A&M University. Their research is from a joint TAMU-UT center grant, funded by the National Science Foundation—I/UCRC: PHEV/EBVs: Transportation and Electricity […]
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ISTPP Director Presents Results of Water Survey to Texas State Leaders
On April 26, 2013, Dr. Arnold Vedlitz presented results from the Institute’s water policy survey of Texans conducted in February and March of this year to Texas state leaders. Those in attendance included representatives of the Texas Water Development Board, Texas General Land Office, Texas Department of Agriculture, Legislative staff, office of the Governor, and […]
Texas A&M Survey Reveals Texans’ Concerns about Water Issues
A recent survey of Texas citizens revealed that, contrary to some earlier predictions, Texans are very interested in, and concerned about, the quality and quantity of water in the Lone Star State. Respondents report being concerned about the increasing number and severity of droughts in Texas and about the availability of enough water to serve […]
ISTPP Postdoc Stoutenborough Presents New Research at Political Science Conferences
James W. Stoutenborough, ISTPP Postdoctoral Research Associate, presented two papers at the 71st annual conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, held April 11-14, 2013, in Chicago, Illinois. All of these papers draw upon Institute research project data. In keeping with ISTPP’s mentoring of future policy makers, ISTPP undergraduate student worker, Shelbi Sturgess, is a […]
Bush School Students Meet Real-life “ARGO” Hero
On March 27, students at Texas A&M’s George Bush School of Government and Public Service had a unique opportunity to hear from and question Tony Mendez, the American diplomat played by Ben Affleck in the Oscar-winning movie, “ARGO.” The film was adapted from Mendez’s books The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA […]
ISTPP Researchers Publish in Risk Analysis
The authors used data from a national survey of US adults to assess perceived risks and willingness to pay for four terrorist threats: poisoned water supply; explosion of a small nuclear device in a major US city; an airplane attack similar to 9/11; and explosion of a bomb in a building, train, subway, or highway. […]
USAA Official To Headline Bank of America Volunteerism Program At Texas A&M April 19
The Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics and Public Policy in the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, will present the annual Bank of America Volunteerism program April 19, featuring Harriet Martin, vice president of community affairs for USAA. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be […]
ISTPP Climate Change Research Published in Sociological Spectrum
ISTPP former Postdoc Sam Park and ISTPP Director Arnold Vedlitz published their research about climate hazards and risk status in Sociological Spectrum. The authors investigate the ways in which major physical and locational climate change vulnerabilities that individuals face, and the greater information they have on these vulnerabilities, affect personal and political behaviors. The authors […]
ALL THE BEST, GEORGE BUSH: My Life in Letters and Other Writings
A revised edition of President George Bush’s collected letters, ALL THE BEST, GEORGE BUSH: My Life in Letters and Other Writings has been published by Scribner. The new version includes letters, emails, diary entries and photographs from the past 15 years, covering his son George W. Bush’s Presidency, 9/11, his unlikely friendship with Bill Clinton and ruminations […]
Bush School Awards Two Professorships
Dr. William Brown and Dr. Lori Taylor, professors in the Master of Public Service and Administration program (MPSA), were recently awarded prestigious professorships, approved by Dr. Karan L Watson, Texas A&M University provost. Dr. William Brown Dr. Brown, associate professor and program director of the Certificate in Nonprofit Management, was appointed to the Mary Julia […]
