Faculty and research associates are in demand for lectures, presentations, scholarly writing, and community activities. The following faculty have been invited to perform these activities in calendar year 2006.
James Alm
has been asked to moderate the annual forecasting dinner of the Atlanta Society of Financial Analysts, January 2006.
Roy Bahl
has been invited to lead a three-day workshop on fiscal decentralization at the World Bank, Washington, D.C., 2006.
has been invited to present a paper at the National Tax Association Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C., November 2006.
has been invited to present a paper at the 100th Celebration of the International Center for Land Policy, Taiwan, October 2006.
Carolyn Bourdeaux
has been invited to present “Loose Cannons on the Deck: Conundrum of Administrative Strategies to Address Contentious Public Sector Decision-Making” at the Southern Political Science Association annual conference, Atlanta, Ga., January 5-7, 2006.
Paul J. Ferraro
has been invited to participate in an international expert panel at the Valuing Wild Nature Workshop (VWN2) sponsored by English Nature and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, University of East Anglia, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, March 2006.
has been invited to spend a two week “mini-sabbatical” at the Research Triangle Institute and North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C., March 2006.
has been invited to organize a workshop on "How Do We Know It's Working? State-of-the-Art Program Evaluation for Conservation Science and Policy" at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, San Jose, Calif., June 2006.
Shelby Frost
has been invited to present at the Association of Private Enterprise Education International Convention, Las Vegas, Nev., April 2-4, 2006.
has been invited to attend and participate in an Economics Teaching Seminar, Charleston, S.C., February 10-11, 2006.
Carol D. Hansen
has been invited to serve as co-editor (with Y. Lee) of a collection of papers on culture in the work place, L’Harmatton Press – Paris.
Bruce E. Kaufman
has been invited to write a chapter on “The Economic Theory of Motivation” for the Handbook on Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Ruth Kanfer (ed.).
has been invited to speak and prepare a paper for a symposium in honor of John Dunlop, a distinguished Harvard scholar and administrator who played significant roles as a labor negotiator and government official, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 2006.
has been invited to speak and prepare a paper for the Planning the Future of Industrial Relations in Europe conference, Modena, Italy, March 17-18, 2006.
has been invited to give a lecture at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, May 2006.
has been invited to give the H.D. Woods Memorial Lecture at the annual meeting of the Canadian Industrial Relations Association, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 1, 2006.
has been invited to speak at the 14th World Congress of the International Industrial Relations Association, Lima, Peru, September 11-14, 2006.
Douglas J. Krupka
has been invited to present “Stability of Mixed Income Neighborhoods in America: 1990-2000” at the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association Annual Meetings, Boston, Mass., January 7, 2006.
has been invited to present “Trends and Projections for Segregation in a Growing City: Atlanta 1980-2010” at The City Of Atlanta: Recent Trends And Future Prospects, Atlanta, Ga., September 2006.
Gregory B. Lewis
has been invited to speak at the 5th Annual Update on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy held by UCLA's Williams Project, Los Angeles, Calif., Feb. 24, 2006.
Harvey K. Newman
has been invited to present a paper on “Faith and Philanthropy in Atlanta” at the Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association, Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 19-22, 2006.
Klara Sabirianova Peter
has been invited to present “Public-Private Wage Gap, Quantile Regressions, and the Measure of Corruption” (with Yuriy Gorodnichenko) and “Firm Survival and Growth under Soviet Planning and During the Transition to a Market Economy” (with Jan Svejnar) and serve as discussant at the 2006 American Economic Association Meeting, Boston, Mass., January 5-8, 2006.
Mary Ann Phillips
has been invited to present “The Role of a University-based Health Policy Center in Informing, Engaging, and Energizing the Philanthropic Community about Health-Related Issues in Georgia” at the CCPH Conference on Walking the Talk: Achieving the Promise of Authentic Partnerships, Minneapolis, Minn., May 31-June 1, 2006.
David W. Pitts
has been invited to present “Public Management, Autonomy, and Organizational Performance” (with Holly T. Goerdel) at the Inaugural Research Conference on Empirical Public Management, College Station, Texas, May 5-6, 2006, and at the 64th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Ill., April 20-23, 2006.
has been invited to serve as discussant at the session “Public Policy and Public Management” at the 77th Annual Conference of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, Ga., January 5, 2006.
see also Christine H. Roch.
Inas Rashad
has been invited to present “Obesity and Depression” (with Gregory Colman) at the Economics of Population Health: Inaugural Conference of the American Society of Health Economists (ASHE), Madison, Wis., June 4-7, 2006.
Christine H. Roch
and Amanda Wilsker* have been invited to present “The Influence of Evaluations of Personal and Collective Experiences: Considering Parents' Evaluations of their Children's Schools" at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Ill., April 20-23, 2006.
, David W. Pitts and Ignacio Navarro* have been invited to present “Representative Bureaucracy, Policy Tools, and Organizational Performance” at the 64th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Ill., April 20-23, 2006.
Michael Rushton
has been invited to write a paper on “The Creative Class and Economic Growth in Atlanta” for the Dan E. Sweat Chair in Educational and Community Policy Project on Recent Trends and Future Growth for the City of Atlanta, 2006.
Bruce A. Seaman
has been invited to present at the Association for Cultural Economics International at its biannual conference, Vienna, Austria, July 9-12, 2006.
Paula E. Stephan
has been invited to present a paper at the PRIME workshop on nanotechnology, Grenoble, France, 2006.
has been invited to present a seminar at Sciences Po, Paris, France, February 1, 2006.
has been asked to contribute an article to the Journal of Technology Transfer.
has been asked to contribute a chapter to a volume on innovation and technical change, Nathan Rosenberg and Bronwyn H. Hall (eds.), and to appear in the North Holland/Elsevier Handbook series, Mike Intriligator and Kenneth Arrow (eds.).
has been invited to present a paper at the 7th annual Washington meeting sponsored by the NBER on Innovation Policy and the Economy, National Press Club, Washington, D.C., April 19, 2006.
has been invited to present a paper at the session on “U.S. Higher Education in Global Perspective” at the Annual Meeting of the Allied Social Science Associations, Boston, Mass., January 6-8, 2006.
Laura O. Taylor
has been invited to present a seminar at Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C., April 2006.
has been invited to present a current research overview to the Senior Capstone Course in the department of economics at Davidson College, Davidson, N.C.
Erdal Tekin
has been invited to attend the Spring Meetings of the National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2006.
has been invited to the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy Conference at the Harris School, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., May 2006.
has been invited to present “Ugly Criminals” at the American Economic Association Meetings, Boston, Mass., January 5-8, 2006.
Eric C. Twombly
has been invited to write the chapter “Professionalization and Compensation of Nonprofit Staff” for the book Nonprofits and Business: A New World of Innovation and Adaptation, Joseph Cordes and C. Eugene Steuerle (eds.), The Urban Institute Press.
Neven Valev
has been invited to present “Financial Structure and the Sources of Economic Growth” at the 13th Annual Tor Vergata conference on financial development, Rome, Italy.
William L. Waugh, Jr.
has been invited to participate in a special workshop on “Crisis Management or Management Crisis? Assessing Governmental Response to Hurricane Katrina” at the National Conference of the American Society for Public Administration, Denver, Colo., March 31-April 4, 2006.
has been invited to participate in a panel on Lessons From Katrina: A Guided Discussion with ASPA's Katrina Task Force at the National Conference of the American Society for Public Administration, Denver, Colo., March 31-April 4, 2006.
has been invited to present a paper at the Syracuse University Conference on Collaborative Management, Washington, D.C., September 2006.
Katherine G. Willoughby
has been invited to participate on a panel for research presentation about state government executive budgeting and leadership at the National Conference of the American Society for Public Administration, Denver, Colo., March 31-April 4, 2006.
has been invited to contribute an essay in 2006 about the state of the states for the Council of State Governments research outlets, The Book of the States and Spectrum: The Journal of State Governments. Her research will assess state of the state addresses by governors and their consideration of state revenue forecasts for 2006.
Dennis R. Young
has been invited to write “Social Enterprise, Social Ventures and 'Double Bottom Line Ventures'," Chapter 4 in Nonprofits and Business: A New World of Innovation and Adaptation, Joseph Cordes and Eugene Steuerle (eds.), Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute Press, 2006.
has been invited to serve as participant in the Planning Conference for the Nonprofit Business Planning Project and Conference, National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise, Reston, Va., January 27, 2006.
has been invited to serve as participant and Host Committee Member at the Social Enterprise Alliance National Conference, Atlanta, Ga., March 7-10, 2006.
has been invited to serve as plenary speaker and panelist at the Benchmark Conference in Nonprofit Management Education, Arizona State University, Tucson, Ariz., March 15-19, 2006.
has been invited to present at the Conference on Nonprofit Accountability, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, Penn., March 7, 2006.
has been invited to serve as Host Committee Member at the Public and Nonprofit Division, Academy of Management, Atlanta, Ga., August 11-14, 2006.
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