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Student Profile: Luwi Shamambo, MPP Class of 2025January 30, 2024Student profile“My goal and my hope—and what feels like a responsibility to me—is to be a physician who can support and advocate for patients outside of the clinic or the hospital room.”Harris Explores "The Black Radical Imagination" for Black History MonthJanuary 29, 2024Black History MonthThe Harris School of Public Policy, taking a novel approach as it celebrates Black History Month, will explore “The Black Radical Imagination” with events throughout February.UChicago Harris/AP-NORC Poll: Majorities View Taxes as Too High, Providing Little ValueJanuary 29, 2024NewsThe public tends to have similar opinions of sales, property, and income taxes, and attitudes toward these taxes are closely tied to political partisanship.Student Profile: Hyeyoon Lee, MPP Class of 2025January 25, 2024Student profile“I appreciate that I can use analytics and coding to focus on economics, international politics, and conflict, which will be helpful to my future research.” Student Profile: Ayush Yadav, MPP Class of 2024January 23, 2024Student profile “Policy should be written as directly and straightforwardly as possible, because it applies to everyone.”PaginationPrevious page‹ Page 59 Next page›