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Robert M. La Follette
School of Public Affairs
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Madison, WI 53706
Telephone: 608.262.3581
Fax: 608.265.3233
Last updated:
August 18, 2011
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Alumni and Friends: La Follette Notes Spring 2009
From the Director:
Academy, campus honor faculty for achievements
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David Weimer
Donald Moynihan
Faculty at the La Follette School have been in high demand in these last few months as the economy contracts and policymakers decide how best to allocate limited resources. Faculty are talking with the media, giving presentations and advising on everything from international fiscal policy to job training programs.
A couple of our faculty are also being recognized for their achievements.
Our alumni who are using the cost-benefit analysis methods they learned from David Weimer will be pleased to know that Dave’s peers have recognized his contributions to the field of public affairs by electing him to the National Academy of Public Administration.
Dave’s current research focuses on health policy issues, including the role of report cards in promoting improved quality of care, the social and fiscal net benefits of screening for Alzheimer’s disease, the organ transplant network as a model for medical governance, and the proper measurement of social costs associated with the regulation of addictive goods like tobacco.
A nonprofit coalition of top public management and organizational leaders, the National Academy of Public Administration was chartered by Congress in 1967 to provide objective practical advice based on systematic research and expert analysis to help solve administrative issues confronting federal, state and local public agencies. Government agencies and congressional committees request much of the work the academy performs. It also conducts projects funded by foundations. Fellows include academic researchers and distinguished practitioners. Among the approximately 600 fellows are 18 current or former presidential cabinet members, 48 current or former federal agency commissioners or administrators, 111 current or former chancellors, presidents, or deans of universities and colleges.
Closer to home, Donald Moynihan has won recognition twice from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has received a $50,000 Romnes Faculty Fellowship to support his ongoing research on the organizational aspects of crisis response and the government’s use of performance information.The fellowship recognizes excellence among faculty members who have attained tenure within the prior four years.
Don also has won a prestigious $10,000 grant from the Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment. Using that and $25,000 from the campus Water Resources Research Institute, Don and the school’s outreach office are organizing an April symposium to explore ways to im-prove Wisconsin policies related to flooding emergencies like those experienced in 2008, when local crisis response and recovery practices varied widely. One goal will be to provide policymakers with better information on everything from hydrology to climate change and intergovernmental collaboration.