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Folded Map™ Project Watch Party and Talkback with Tonika Lewis Johnson

Students, Special Events
The Folded Map™ Project visually connects residents who live at corresponding addresses on the North and South Sides of Chicago, and investigates what urban segregation looks like and how it impacts Chicago residents.

MiPPS Alumni Award Ceremony

Alumni, Students, Special Events
This event serves to present the 2021 MiPPS Alumni Award to Ruby Mendenhall, PhD, MPP ‘94, and to bring the MiPPS student and alumni communities together for networking and community building.
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Student Profile: Caton Brewster, MSCAPP Class of 2022

Student profile
"Harris gives you the amazing network, the content area education, and hard skills that help you perform better."

Community Impact Through the Art of Drag

Students
Hosted by the Harris student organization OUTPolitik, join us as each of these panelists share their unique story of valiant leadership and impact in Chicago's community.
IPSS

Building a Circular Economy: Fifth Year of IPSS Continues to Boost Policy Collaboration, Despite Pandemic

News
Finding policy solutions to put such economic models into action was the task for the graduate students and Ph.D. candidates from 16 universities who took part in the Harris School of Public Policy’s 2021 Inter-Policy School Summit (IPSS).
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Building Back Better in the White House: Erika Poethig, MPP'96, the Housing Crisis, and the Harris Toolkit

News
Against the backdrop of a national housing crisis, Erika Poethig, MPP’96, is working seven days a week to help Americans keep their homes – a prospect she never imagined when she was a student at the University of Chicago Harris Public Policy.
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Student Profile: John Spence, MACRM Class of 2022

Student profile
“I’m looking forward to those moments where these really complicated things snap into focus and I’ll be able to read these papers on a high level and feel like I’ve opened a window to new knowledge.”
NAPP

A New Theory of Political Scandal‪s‬

Podcast
Will Howell and Wioletta Dziuda talk about a new model of political scandal that makes these incentives that surround the production and consequences of scandals clear.
NAPP

Nationalized Elections, The End Of Local News, And Government Accountability

Podcast
Daniel Moskowitz, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Harris School of Public Policy, talks about why nationalized elections are a problem, the key role of local news, and what we might do to fix things.
NAPP

Are Media Echo Chambers As Big As We Think?

Podcast
Andrew Guess, Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton, provides insights into a completely unique data set that complicates our assumptions about America’s “echo chambers” and media diets
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Resources for Students with Partners and Families

Many Harris students bring years of work experience to our community, as well as partners and families. Balancing the return to school with family responsibilities can sometimes be daunting, so in this blog, we share some resources for students with partners and families as they plan the transition to Harris.
NAPP

The Institutional Racism Of Land Use Regulation

Podcast
Land-use regulations could be causing modern-day segregation. Jessica Trounstine, chair of the political science department a the University of California Merced, discusses why land-use policies aren’t as race-neutral as they seem.