The Center for Public Policy and Administration is the hub of interdisciplinary public policy research, teaching, and engagement at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

CPPA attracts high-caliber national and international students to its Masters of Public Policy and Administration (MPPA) program. CPPA also offers an undergraduate certicate in public policy available to UMass Amherst students.

Home to a growing number of research initiatives, CPPA houses the National Center for Digital Government; the Science, Technology and Society Initiative; and the Public Engagement Project.

	Krista Harper is directing a three-year international research experience project for fifteen undergraduate and graduate students from UMass Amherst and the Five Colleges consortium. This project is funded by the National Science Foundation. [more]
	Jane Fountain was part of a panel presentation on “Governance and Information Technology: From Electronic Government to Information Government” at the Dubai School of Government. The panel coincides with an Arabic release of a book with the same name. [more]
	Christa Drew '11 has been selected for the 2010 Sylvia Rowe Fellowship at the International Food Information Council (IFIC) Foundation in Washington DC. [more]
	David Mednicoff, CPPA and legal studies, participated in a "Migrant Labor in the Gulf" working group at Georgetown University's Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS). This research is part of Mednicoff's research project, "Migrant Labor and Legal Regulations in Doha and Duba," funded by CIRS [more]
	CPPA Professor Jane Fountain was part of a panel discussion on ethics education in science and engineering in light of the National Science Foundation’s Responsible Conduct of Research requirement at the 2010 AAAS Annual Meeting in San Diego this February. [more]
	Read the February eBulletin to catch up on the latest student, faculty and alumni news.
	Charles Schweik, associate professor of Natural Resources Conservation and Public Policy, will discuss “Collaborative Principles in Open Source Commons” on Monday, March 1, at 12 p.m. in Thompson 620.  Schweik is also the founder and co-director of the UMass Amherst Open Source Laboratory. [more]
	Daniel Hallin, Professor and Chair of Communication at the University of Calfornia, San Diego, is speaking at two upcoming talks on February 23 and 24 as part of the CPPA Grants Workshop Series. Hallin teaches and conducts research on political communication and the role of the news media in democratic politics and the public sphere. [more]
	CPPA held its first annual Professional Development Seminar in Washington D.C. this January. Read the poliblog entry here.
	Extensive coverage of California's Proposition 8 trial has featured research and testimony by CPPA Director Lee Badgett. Badgett, who is also a Professor of Economics, testified that same-sex couples prefer marriage over domestic partnerships. [more]

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