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Angela Blair, a student in the joint Georgia State/Georgia Tech doctoral program in public policy (with co-authors A. Bostrom and J. Gribble) presented "Informational Needs for Genetic Testing for Heritable Breast and Ovarian Cancer: Consumers vs. Experts" and (with co-authors L. Sampietro-Colom and V. Philips) "A Systematic Review of Preferences in Women's Health Care" at the International Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care meeting at The Hague, The Netherlands, in June. Also, Blair (with co-authors S. Thomas, G. Corbie-Smith, S. Mohanan, M. Williams and C. del Rio) presented "Assessing the Acceptability of Rapid HIV Testing in an Urban Hospital," at the 13th International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa, in July.

Several economics Ph.D. graduates and soon-to-be graduates have accepted academic or research positions: Barbara Edwards has accepted a position with the Congressional Budget Office in Washington, D.C. She plans to graduate this fall. Recent graduate Carol Scotton is an economist for the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Chris Geller has accepted a position as lecturer at Deakin University in Waurn Ponds, Australia. He plans to graduate this fall. Robert McNab has accepted a position as an assistant professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. He plans to graduate this fall. Fiscal Research Program researcher Kathleen Thomas has accepted a position as a research scholar in the Green Center for the Study of Science and Society at the University of Texas at Dallas. Thomas successfully defended her dissertation in August.

Julian Gumbs, an undergraduate urban policy studies major, recently was named a Gates Millennium Scholar. The Gates Millennium Scholars Program - created last year with a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and administered by the United Negro College Fund in partnership with the Hispanic Scholarship Fund and the American Indian College Fund - provides merit-based scholarships for minority students.

James Murphy, a doctoral student in economics, has accepted a position as a visiting assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He plans to graduate in fall 2000.

Catherine Shelley, a student in the master of arts in economics program, recently completed a summer internship with the Chicago office of One NorthEast, a regional development agency established by the English government last year.

Economics graduate student Marcela Symanski recently completed an internship with The Carter Center, during which she traveled to Mexico in order to report on elections in that country. Symanski also traveled to Itam Technological Institute in Mexico City in March to participate in a panel discussion on the Mexico/European Union free trade agreement and spoke about the Mexican elections during an event at the World Trade Center in July. Symanski, who received her master's degree in August, was the first graduate of the new policy track in economics.

Banks

Our sympathies…

…to the family of Grashunda Enise Banks, a student assistant in the Andrew Young School dean's office, who died in a July 23 car accident.

…to the family of William Brock Senft, a junior urban policy studies major, who died in an Aug. 12 plane crash.

jPhoto above: SUMMER INTERNS: Undergraduate students who participated in the Andrew Young School's policy internship program posed questions to the ambassador about his life as a civil rights advocate, politician and community leader. Pictured are (sitting, left to right) Mohna Shah, Emory University; Ben Costley, Centre College; Andrew Young; Julie Schultz, Boston University; Clifford Jenks, Centre College; (standing, left to right) Joanna Barnhart, Georgia State University; Michael Beachler, Kansas State University; Delisle Warden, Emory University; Samantha Murray, Duke University; Earl Dax, University of Pennsylvania; Jason Fletcher, University of Tennessee/Knoxville; Jason Morgan, George Washington University; Monica Dorman, University of Michigan; and Cara Ball, Georgia Institute of Technology. Not pictured: Ashli Owen-Smith, Smith College.