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Alumni and Friends: La Follette Notes Spring 2006

Faculty News

Don Moynihan presented research on crisis management at the Public Management Research Conference in Los Angeles, where he was elected to the board of directors of the Public Management Research Association. He is beginning a research project that examines the use of incident command systems in different types of emergencies.

Dennis Dresang and the La Follette School, in partnership with Wisconsin Women In Government, just completed the sixth annual leadership seminar for women who are and will be leaders in state and local governments. At the request of the Wisconsin State Court System, Dresang also conducted two daylong training sessions for system supervisors to help them implement recommendations made in a study by Dresang and La Follette students. He also was a witness for the prosecution in the trial of former Assembly speaker Scott Jensen. Dresang’s job was to inform the jury about the relationship between campaigning and legislating.

Menzie Chinn presented at a conference on Global Savings and Investments Patterns and the Changing Structure of the World Economy, co-sponsored by the World Economic Forum, the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee, the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Australian Treasury. The gathering took place in Adelaide, Australia, in March as part of the meeting of the G-20 finance deputies. He also presented a paper analyzing new Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke’s “global savings glut hypothesis” at the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank, and will present it at the Federal Reserve Bank in Cleveland. He has joined the Advisory Committee of the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for International Economics, the pre-eminent think tank on the global economy.

Social Security and how it works was the topic of a presentation Karen Holden gave last fall to University of Wisconsin-Madison employees at the annual employees benefits fair.

Clark Miller is working with a cross-campus network of faculty and graduate students that received $1 million from the National Science Foundation to create a Center for Nanotechnology in Society. He also is helping to recruit the first class of students for the La Follette School’s new Neuroscience and Public Policy program.

Dave Weimer continues to research health policy issues, including a study underway to estimate people’s willingness to pay to eliminate addiction to cigarettes.

Donald Nichols and Graham Wilson spoke to a group of University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni in Chicago in March.

In January and February, Barbara Wolfe and Bob Haveman were at Australian National University, where they hold adjunct appointments at the Research School of Social Sciences. They presented two seminars, consulted with researchers, presented a paper at a health-care conference in Sydney and conducted research.

Index to La Follette Notes spring 2006