Daniel Fiorino, director of the SPA Center for Environmental Policy, hosted an online discussion on the topic of using positive psychology to curb overpopulation on September 9, 2020.
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SPA Assistant Professor Lallen Johnson and graduate student Tayler Shreve (SPA/PhD ’23) analyzed the variations in fatalities of drug overdose mortality rate across neighborhoods and found housing conditions and policing patterns played a role.
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SPA alumna (MPA, '07) Monique Earl has been appointed the new executive officer of the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT).
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A new SPA study reveals a relationship between overdose mortality and the conditions of neighborhoods in Philadelphia.
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Karen Baehler, SPA scholar in residence, was the first-named author of a study, supported by SPA graduate students Carley Weted and Theo Laguna, analyzing data from a lead pipe replacement program in the District of Columbia between 2009 and 2018.
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SPA Professor Lynn Addington received a grant to explore police response to same-sex intimate partner violence (IPV) and consider the link between public opinion, policy, and the arrest patterns in these cases.
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This year, the NAACP and partners celebrated this anniversary with virtual programming, including a keynote address by Stacey Abrams, founder of Fair Fight, and a national call to remember and fight for the aims of the original
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When Robins first learned of child marriage in the US from a New York Times op-ed, he was still a senior in high school. The summer before he arrived at American University he picked up the topic again, and this time he could not look away.
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A new study by SPA Assistant Professor Aparna Soni provides evidence that Medicaid expansion, which increases access to health insurance and care, does indeed improve the health behaviors of vulnerable Americans in the long term.
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