News Profile Research In the News Confronting COVID-19 Black History Month #PolicyForward Summer of Social Impact Harris at Home and the Pivot to Digital June 24, 2020 Confronting COVID-19 The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic forced the pivot from in-person to online learning with remarkable speed. Practically overnight, Harris Public Policy students and professors were logging into Zoom from homes all over the world. Harris Scholar David McMillon Receives Prestigious Fellowship July 01, 2020 News McMillon received the $27,500 Fellowship for his dissertation, which applied complex systems theory to study the School-to-Prison Pipeline. Poised for Growth: Harris Policy Labs and the Opportunity Zone June 26, 2020 News “Learning how to look for information and how to work with the data you get — because it’s never going to tell you everything you want to know — is key to Policy Labs projects," said Paula Worthington, PhD, academic director of the Policy Labs program. News Louis Makarewicz's Zoom-Filled Final Quarter: A Snapshot July 10, 2020 News Newly minted MPP graduate Louis Makarewicz found the pandemic-forced transition to remote learning for his last quarter at the Harris School of Public Policy to be remarkably smooth. PhD Student Devika Lakhote Named 2020-21 Urban Doctoral Fellow July 10, 2020 News Fellows receive support for their research on urban issues. Lakhote's research focuses on discrimination in public goods access for disadvantaged groups in urban India. Alumni Profile: Jinghan Zhu, MA/MA’20 July 10, 2020 Student profile “My tenure at Harris gave me exactly the fundamental training I wanted.” OUTPolitik and the Struggle for LGBTQ Equality July 09, 2020 News OUTPolitik, the Harris Student Organization which fosters LGBTQ community within Harris, also works in Chicago as a whole, especially the South Side, to support queer communities and push for policy-based change. Professor William Howell Discusses Lessons From His New Book July 08, 2020 In the News The erosion of trust in institutions such as the media and government have contributed to the challenges in democracy which have made effective government difficult in the United States. Associate Professor Anthony Fowler Discusses Wisconsin Primary Turnout Amid COVID-19 July 08, 2020 In the News Registered voters in Wisconsin who had never voted absentee were much less likely to cast a ballot in the April 2020 election, a pattern traced to the prevalence of COVID-19. Pagination Page 1 Next page › Upcoming Events Health and Wealth: COVID-19, Inequality, and the Need for Reform Mon., July 13, 2020 | 6:00 PM Summer of Social Impact Virtual Webinar 1307 E. 60th Street Chicago, IL 60637 United States Evening Master's Program: Ask the Director + Current Student Panel Mon., July 20, 2020 | 5:30 PM A link will be sent to registered guests. Chicago, IL 60637 United States More events