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Durant receives 2012 Dwight Waldo Award

Robert F. Durant has been awarded the prestigious Dwight Waldo Award for 2012. This award is presented by the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) to persons who have made outstanding contributions to the professional literature of public administration over an extended career. The award recognizes an individual with active scholarship that has furthered the discipline of public administration. Past winners include our own David Rosenbloom, and our invited 2010, 2011, and 2012 Levine Lecturers – Kenneth J. Meier, Hal Rainey, and Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. Professor Durant is also the 2011 American University Scholar-Teacher of the Year.

DPAP Ph.D. Students Win National Research Awards

Amanda Girth, PhD, DPAP 2010, has been named the 2011 winner of the American Political Science Association’s Leonard White Award for the best dissertation in the field of Public Administration, while Bill Resh has recently received the competitive 2011 Paul A. Volcker Junior Scholar Research Award, also from the APSA. Sarah Pettijohn, third year DPAP Phd Student, has been selected an Emerging Scholar for 2011 by the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organization and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), the leading scholarly association studying nonprofit organizations. Read more

DPAP Professors Awarded Research Grants

Alison Jacknowitz and Taryn Morrissey received grants from the Institute for Research on Poverty and the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research to study food insecurity, obesity, and eating patterns among children ages birth to five. Read more