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 a certicate in public policy available to UMass Amherst undergraduates.

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

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Some oil companies are greener than others, according to Michael Ash (economics and public policy) who cited a ranking of the 100 worst air-polluting companies compiled by the Political Economy Research Institute at UMass Amherst. The studies were published in 2002 and 2005. (Fox News, 6/18/09)

In May, Professor David Mednicoff participated in a working group on "Migrant Labor in the Gulf" in a Qatar-based conference funded by Georgetown University's Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS). See the write up here.

Congratulations! The MPPA class of 2009 presented their capstone projects May 13th & 14th. See capstone schedule and project descriptions.


The NSF has award Professor Jane Fountain (Political Science / Public Policy, Director of NCDG & STS) and Marilyn Billings (Scholarly Communication & Special Initiatives Librarian at the W.E.B. Du Bois Library) a $250,000 grant. The grant will fund beta testing of cybertools and cyberinfrastructure for an interdisciplinary, multimedia, and international online beta repository to support ethics in science and engineering. The project will be based at CPPA. For more information visit www.umass.edu/sts.

Application guidelines for CPPA's Mellon grants workshop for faculty are available here (PDF).


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