United States Congressman Will Hurd will discuss “Immigration Policy Challenges Facing Congress” Wednesday, Oct. 2, at 7 p.m. at the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center. The event is an installment of the Conversations in Public Policy series hosted by the Bush School of Government & Public Service’s Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy at Texas A&M […]
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Bush School Alum to Lead Iowa Department of Human Services
Kelly Kennedy Garcia, a 2004 graduate of the Bush School of Government and Public Service, has been appointed by Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds as Director of the state’s Department of Human Services. Garcia leaves her current role as Deputy Executive Commissioner of Texas Health and Human Services, which she has held since December of 2018. […]
ISTPP’s Liu Publishes on Public Attitudes toward Economic Reform in China
Dr. Xinsheng Liu of ISTPP recently published the paper “Age Versus Socialization in Understanding Attitudes toward Economic Reforms in China” in Social Sciences Quarterly. Dr. Liu coauthored the paper with Dr. Robert Harmel of Texas A&M University and Dr. Yao-Yuan Yeh of the University of St. Thomas. In this paper, the authors used data from both […]
Albritton CGS, Texas A&M’s Office of the President, and The Association of Former Students Host Author, Alex Kershaw
On September 19th, journalist and New York Times best-selling author Alex Kershaw gave a poignant talk on his latest bestselling book, The First Wave: The D- Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in World War II. Many people study D-Day for its tactical, operational, and strategic effects; however, Kershaw tells the stories of […]
Bush School Faculty Receives Prestigious FBI Award
Michael W. Howell, Associate Professor of the Practice of International Affairs and new faculty member at the Bush School, received the FBI Medal of Excellence in July 2019 just before his retirement from the Bureau. FBI Director Christopher Wray cited Agent Howell for “your sustained performance in contributions to the Dallas counterterrorism program and excellence […]
Bush School Faculty and Student Speak at Texas Lyceum Meeting about Texas Voter Turnout
On Friday, September 13, the Texas Lyceum, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, statewide leadership organization focused on identifying the next generation of top Texas leaders, held its quarterly meeting at the Texas A&M Bush School of Government and Public Service. The meeting’s purpose was to explore the question “Are we taking our democracy for granted?” Dean Mark […]
Dr. Liu Joins Policy Studies Journal Editorial Board
ISTPP researchers Dr. Xinsheng Liu and Dr. Kent Portney and their coauthors Feng Hao at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee and Yinxi Liu at Inner Mongolia University have published their paper, “Examining Public Concern about Global Warming and Climate Change in China,” in The China Quarterly. Dr. Xinsheng Liu, ISTPP research scientist, has joined the […]
Kimberly Cochrane Field Joins Leadership Team of Bush School’s Albritton Center for Grand Strategy
The Bush School is pleased to announce that Kim Field has joined the Bush School as Executive Director of the Albritton Center for Grand Strategy and Professor of the Practice in the Department of International Affairs. A graduate of the United States Military Academy, where she concentrated in Russian studies, Field retired from the United […]
Cook Receives NSF Grant to Study Patterns of Terrorism
Dr. Scott Cook, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University, and Dr. Mikyoung Jun, Professor of Statistics at Texas A&M University, were recently awarded a multi-year research grant from the National Science Foundation to analyze patterns of terrorism. The $315,999 grant (DMS-1925119) is funded by the Algorithms for Threat (ATD) program, a partnership […]
New Edition of Professor George Edwards’ “Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America” published
Yale University Press has published the third edition of George C. Edwards III, Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America. Dr. Edwards is a Distinguished Professor and Jordan Chair Emeritus and Distinguished Fellow at the University of Oxford. The author or editor of 26 books, he is one of the nation’s premier scholars of the […]