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Eric Tempelis, La Follette Student, Cited in a July 18 General Accounting Office Report: Trends in State Capital Investment in Highways.
"Amid projections that freight traffic will increase 65 percent by 2020 and that traffic congestion will worsen, many transportation officials are concerned about the challenge of maintaining and improving the condition and performance of the nation’s highway infrastructure..." (Full Report)
Carolyn Heinrich is 2003 Grant Award Winner of the IBM Center for the Business of Government
Professor Heinrich has been working with the U.S. Department of Labor since the beginning of the year to analyze performance data from States' implementation of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA). Her research project is producing information on the implications of new design features of the WIA performance management system that will help to inform and guide the WIA reauthorization debates and decisions that are presently underway. Heinrich will be presenting the findings of her research in Washington, DC in October.
Edward Fouhy Selected as La Follette Political Writer in Residence, Fall 2003
Ed Fouhy is the executive director of the Pew Center on the States, an Internet-based research and information service established to report on innovative public policy issues at the state level. Fouhy previously was founder and, for five years, executive director of the Pew Center for Civic Journalism. (Read More)
NATO Political Affairs Expert Comes Back To La Follette
Daniel Speckhard, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs
of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, shakes hands with his former
economics professor, Donald Nichols, who is Director of La Follette School of
Public Affairs. A La Follette alumnus, he gave a presentation to the public at
the State Historical Society on August 25 and participated in La Follette
Orientation events.
Robert Haveman, Fulbright Distinguished Siena Chair in Economics
La Follette Professor Emeritus Robert Haveman held the Fulbright Distinguished Siena Chair in Economics, which took him to Siena, Italy from March 15th to June 15th. While there he pursued his research, taught a minicourse to Ph.D students and lectured at several places in Europe.
He was also a Visiting Professor for two weeks at the University of Bristol (UK), where he gave two seminar/lectures, including one at the London School of Economics.
Recently he presented a paper and served as a discussant at the Workshop on Income Assistance and the Labor Market in Ponta Delgada, The Azores in June. Professor Haveman also published a book, joint with Andrew Bershadker and Jon Schabish, entitled Human Capital in the United States from 1975 to 2000: Patterns of Growth and Utilization.
Early Retirement May Increase Risk of Old-Age Poverty
Professors Robert Haveman, Karen Holden, and Barbara Wolfe of the La Follette
School and Kathryn Wilson of Kent State University studied financial outcomes
for a sample of 6,200 men and women who began receiving benefits from Social
Security in 1980-81 and were re-interviewed ten years later. During the decade
following retirement, the early retirees were more likely to have incomes below
poverty, and the gap between early and late retirees grew...(Full Release)
Therese Ahlers Chosen for Prestigious Fellowship
La Follette alum Therese Ahlers has been chosen as one of only 22 fellows for ZERO TO THREE 's prestigious Leaders for the 21st Century program. Therese Ahlers, Director of the Wisconsin Initiative for Infant Mental Health, will focus her work during the eighteen-month fellowship on developing a statewide early childhood mental health system of care. She earned her BS, MS and MPA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. (Full Release)Donald Kettl - A Breath of Fresh Air
Professor Donald Kettl chaired a panel of the National Academy of Public Administration in authoring a report on reviving the New Source Review program under the Clean Air Act. (Summary Report) (Full Report)
He also recently wrote an editorial in the Philadelphia Inquirer, titled "Wheeze and Bear It," on the subject of Bush Administration air policies. (View Editorial)
Kettl will also co-chair the 2005 American Society for Public
Administration conference.
Late 2003 Economic Outlook
Professor Don Nichols, director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs, has released his economic forecast for the second half of 2003. ( Full Release)In Other News. . .
La Follette is hosting one of six international Fulbright Scholars at UW-Madison this year. She is Dace Jansone, an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, Vidzeme University College, Valmiera, Latvia. She is doing research on emerging parties. The scholars program is sponsored by the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. State Department, and administered by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES).