Public and Environmental Affairs

Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs announced it has established the Indiana University Public Policy Institute. Located near the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus, the new Institute will serve as an umbrella organization for SPEA-affiliated centers that conduct research and provide expertise on urban and environmental policy, health policy and criminal justice.
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Government policymakers and nonprofit agencies focused on criminal justice and public safety now have a new resource at their disposal: The Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs today (April 24) announced the creation of the IU Center for Criminal Justice Research.
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John D. Graham, a former Harvard faculty member and top official with the White House Office of Management and Budget, has been named dean of the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs. The appointment takes effect Aug. 1. Graham has since March 2006 been dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate School in Santa Monica, Calif.
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Inmates and college students learn together in the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, a collaboration of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and Indiana's Plainfield Re-Entry Educational Facility. Wednesday morning, the Plainfield facility will host a ceremony for the 17 students who completed the semester-long course.
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SPEA Earth Week will take place April 16-22 and will feature a series of educational, service-oriented, awareness-raising and entertaining events. Indiana University students, faculty and staff and the Bloomington community are encouraged to attend. The events are sponsored by the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Environmental Management Association.
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Indiana University professors Phil Henson, Phil Stevens and Scott Kennedy discuss the political and environmental climate surrounding the Olympic Games.
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