Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale will receive the McLane Leadership in Business Award on Wednesday, September 26, 2018. The award will be presented by the Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. Presented annually, the award recognizes a prominent individual in 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 […]
Center for Grand Strategy Director Jasen Castillo Co-authors RAND Studies
One the Center for Grand Strategy’s directors, Jasen Castillo, co-authored two RAND studies that have been published in recent months, National Will to Fight: Why Some States Keep Fighting and Others Don’t and Will to Fight: Analyzing, Modeling, and Simulating the Will to Fight of Military Units.
Bush School Graduate Research Reveals Highest Health Uninsurance Rates in Texas
New research published in The Takeaway, a policy brief produced by the Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy at the Texas A&M University Bush School of Government and Public Service, found that while uninsured rates in Texas declined from 2012 to 2016, the state still leads the nation in health uninsured rates. Texas Lyceum […]
Bush School Former Student Creates Startup to Support Factory Workers in Tijuana
Five years ago, Bryce Watson, ’18, was living in China teaching English to factory workers’ children. Two weeks ago, he moved to Tijuana, Mexico, to work on his startup in preparation for the product’s full launch in August, the idea for which he had while living in China. Vize, Watson’s company, is designed to give […]
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 […]
CGS Academic Director Delivers Talk at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Center
Video Dr. Jasen Castillo addressed questions pertaining to conditions that might facilitate nuclear escalation in a conventional conflict between the U.S. and Russia and how Russian nuclear strategy might affect its pursuit of foreign policy objectives. More information and video from the talk can be found online here.
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 […]
CGS Academic Director Publishes Chapter in Edited Volume
Dr. Jasen Castillo, CGS Academic Director, published a chapter titled “Deliberate Escalation: Nuclear Strategies to Deter or to Stop Conventional Attacks” in Coercion: The Power to Hurt in International Politics (Oxford University Press, 2018) edited by Kelly M. Greenhill and Peter Krause.
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 […]