SIPA Student Groups

Kelly Heindel is a student working in our office this year and I asked her to highlight some of the student driven opportunities at SIPA.  Below is a brief description of some of the formal student groups that have been put together by our students.  To learn more about student life at SIPA, visit the…

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New Book Offering by SIPA Professor Lincoln Mitchell

SIPA Professor of Practice Lincoln Mitchell has just published his new book Uncertain Democracy: U.S. Foreign Policy and Georgia’s Rose Revolution, the first scholarly examination of Georgia’s recent political past. Professor Mitchell recounts the events that led to the overthrow of President Eduard Shevardnadze and analyzes the factors that contributed to the staying power of…

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Office of Career Services

SIPA is a professional school and we take career development very seriously.  Our job is to produce graduates who can hit the ground running and make an immediate difference in the policy world.  Meg Heenehan is the Executive Director of the Office of Career Services (OCS) and she recently sat down to speak with us…

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SIPA News Magazine: The Latin America Issue

The January 2009 edition of SIPA News takes a closer look at a variety of issues affecting nations in Latin America. These issues include the global recession, climate change, free trade and income inequality. SIPA News also examines the changing relations between the U.S. and Cuba, gun violence in Brazil, and even the production of…

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Scott Barrett to Join SIPA Faculty

Scott Barrett, one of the world’s leading environmental policy economists, will join the SIPA faculty with a joint appointment in the Earth Institute in the fall of 2009 as the first Lenfest Professor of Natural Resource Economics. Since 1999, Professor Barrett has served on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of…

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