With classes starting in less than a week, orientation began Monday for the Bush School’s class of 2021. To kick off the week, more than 150 members of the incoming class filed off buses in a north Bryan Habitat for Humanity neighborhood Monday morning, beginning their school year with a service project. Their task: to […]
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ISTPP’s Liu and Vedlitz Publish Article in Public Management Review
ISTPP’s Drs. Xinsheng Liu and Arnold Vedlitz recently published a paper with Dr. Youlang Zhang (ISTPP Fellow and Assistant Professor at Renmin University of China) in Public Management Review. In this paper, titled “Issue-Specific Knowledge and Willingness to Coproduce: The Case of Public Security Services,” the authors draw theoretical insights from coproduction literature and employ […]
Xinsheng Liu and Kent Portney Publish on Chinese Concern about Climate Change
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. In their study, which is the first of its […]
Bush School Capstone Project Cited by Washington Think Tank
The Bush School capstone project “Iran after Khamenei: A Framework for Succession” has been cited in a recent report by the Washington-based Atlantic Council. The Atlantic Council published a report titled After Sistani and Khamenei: Looming Successions Will Shape the Middle East in July 2019. The report, authored by top Middle East experts Abbas Kadhim and […]
Former Student Spotlight: The Misadventures of Margo Marie
Margo DeKoch, a political science graduate from Texas A&M, is already a published author and known philanthropist in her local community in south Texas. The twist? She graduated last year.
Bush School and ISTPP Researchers Part of Grant to Study Hurricane Harvey Recovery and Community Resilience
Researchers from Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government and Public Service and Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy (ISTPP) have joined an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional research team led by Texas OneGulf of Texas A&M Corpus Christi. The Texas OneGulf team has received a $470,000 grant from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to 1) examine […]
Bush School Alum Works to Continue LGBTQ Momentum at Texas A&M
Walking across the campus of Texas A&M University, prospective students and other visitors are quick to notice the multitude of traditions taken part in by students and faculty alike: hats off in the Memorial Student Center, piles of pennies on the feet of the Sullivan Ross statue, and certainly a lot of “Howdys.” A tradition—or […]
Alexandra González Rainey Named Bush School Director of Development
Dean Mark Welsh has announced the addition of Alexandra “Ale” González Rainey to the Bush School Development Team as Director of Development through the Texas A&M Foundation for the Bush School of Government and Public Service. Rainey is a 2018 graduate of the Bush School, earning her master’s degree in nonprofit management in the Department […]
Bush School Graduates Gather for Dean’s Annual Alumni Reception in Washington, DC
On a warmer than normal June evening in Washington, DC, just blocks from the White House, more than 100 Bush School alumni gathered for the Dean’s Annual Alumni and Intern Reception. Speaking to the crowd, Dean Mark Welsh updated DC area alumni with news from the Bush School and plans for the future. After his […]
Bush School Students Soak in Presentation by German Ambassador
Bush School students and the public enjoyed a presentation by the Honorable Emily Haber, German Ambassador to the United States, who touched on multiple topics in a speech and Q&A session with the audience. The July 1st presentation highlighted the pivotal role played by President George H. W. Bush in the reunification of Germany following […]