Events and News
The Public Policy Program hosts various events for both undergraduate and graduate students throughout the year. Speakers come from a variety of vantage points and share their views on a range of topics. We are able to draw upon faculty at Stanford, visiting policy makers at research institutions on campus, as well as inviting experts to share their experiences with students and faculty. To learn more, please click on the links below and visit the calendar section.
On Potato Chips and Social Class: Public Policy Alum, Josh Freedman
Josh Freedman, Class of 2011, co-authored an article in the December 6 issue of Gastronomica titled 'Authenticity in America: Class Distinctions in Potato Chip Advertising'. The study uses potato chips to analyze class identity in food marketing because "you can't use caviar, you can't use pork rinds, you have to use something everybody eats and that's potato chips," said Dan Jurafsky, a professor of linguistics. More on Josh's research project, and its conception, can be read in the November 30th issue of the Stanford Report. David Hoffert, M.P.P. degree candidate, is the 2011 Frank Figueroa Memorial Scholarship Recipient
Public Policy Alum, Mark Donig, published in Foreign Policy
Mark Donig, Public Policy Class of 2009, recently co-authored an Op-Ed in Foreign Policy. It discusses the opportunity for increased collaboration between Washington and Jerusalem by using Israel and post-Mubarak Egypt as an example. Mark was a researcher at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and currently is a research analyst with a consulting firm in Virginia. |
The Frank Figueroa Memorial Scholarship is intended to recognize and support excellence in public service by awarding a stipend to a graduate student pursuing a Masters of Public Administration in California, Arizona, Nevada or Hawaii. David Hoffert, currently in his second year in the M.P.P. degree program, was recently announced as the 2011-12 scholarship recipient. In early November he will travel to Southern California to accept the $2,000 award. Congratulations, David!