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Atlanta, GA | Posted: December 22, 2021
Communications Officer
School of Public Policy | Sam Nunn School of International Affairs
Summary Sentence:
Relieve some of the year's highlights and top stories.
Full Summary:
Relieve some of the year's highlights and top stories.
School of Public Policy 2021 Year in ReviewIt was a big year for the School of Public Policy (SPP), full of milestones and accomplishments across the school.
We welcomed Cassidy R. Sugimoto as the Tom and Marie Patton School Chair this year. We also hosted several expert panels – the Climate and Energy Policy Laboratory facilitated the Georgia conversation of the event Solve Climate by 2030, the School teamed up with Drawdown Georgia to discuss the Biden Administration’s climate change and clean energy priorities, and data scientists from around the country gathered to discuss mitigating algorithmic bias. We also continued our Meg and Sam Flax Lecture Series with “Research to Action: Three Climate Solutions for Georgia,” featuring some of our graduate students and recent alumni.
Members of the SPP community were featured in publications such as NBC News, The Wall Street Journal, WalletHub, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The School and its members both presented and received awards this year. Marilyn Brown, Regents Professor and Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems, won the World Citizen Prize in Environmental Performance Award from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. The Data Science and Policy lab – helmed by Assistant Professor Omar Asensio – won a bid from the State Department’s Diplomacy Lab to research how AI can be used to accelerate adopting green energy. Finally, the Law, Science, and Technology program launched the inaugural Van Aacken Awards to help aspiring law school students offset the costs of applying.
We were also incredibly proud to award nearly 50 degrees this year across our bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. programs in the spring and fall Commencement ceremonies.
Finally, it was another banner year for SPP research. Our faculty landed articles in Nature, Economic Inquiry, and Applied Energy, among others. More research is highlighted below.
Our top ten news stories from the year were:
The School of Public Policy wishes everyone a happy and safe new year and looks forward to continuing to work in 2022.
