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USC-UCLA real estate challenge focuses on Long Beach Marina

November 23, 2013

The Long Beach Press-Telegram featured the USC vs. UCLA Real Estate Challenge, an annual competition between the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate and the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate. This year, they prepared development proposals for Long Beach’s SeaPort Marina Hotel. “It’s a grueling six-week process. We really talked to 300 people,” said USC Price School student Stephen Anderson.

Ways to avoid becoming academic ‘roadkill’

November 19, 2013

Martin Krieger is an intellectual switch-hitter, first earning a doctorate in particle physics before turning his focus to city planning and the environment. Now a professor at the USC Price School of Public Policy, Krieger has spent 15 years documenting everyday Los Angeles, taking tens of thousands of photographs that capture slices of life in the city. With his recent book, The Scholar’s Survival Manual (Indiana University Press, 2013), Krieger looks back on his 45 years in academia and offers advice to students, professors and administrators on how to avoid becoming “academic roadkill.”

USC Price signs MOU with City Hall Fellows Program

November 19, 2013

The USC Price School of Public Policy in October signed a memorandum of understanding with the City Hall Fellows Program to establish new scholarships to support graduate-level education and training. The USC/City Hall Fellows Scholarship Program provides two-year funding to study at one of the Price School’s two-year master’s degree programs in public administration, public policy, urban planning, and health management and policy

Chris Matthews discusses new book, Washington politics at Schwarzenegger Institute event

November 15, 2013

Chris Matthews, best-selling author, political commentator and host of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” joined former Calif. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger at the USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy for a discussion on his new book, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked, on Nov. 15. Matthews and Schwarzenegger engaged in a wide-ranging discussion about the current state of politics in Washington, D.C.

Price professors James Ferris, left, and Raphael Bostic at the NAPA induction ceremony in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14. (photos by David Scavone)

Two Price faculty elected NAPA fellows

November 14, 2013

USC Price School of Public Policy professors Raphael Bostic and James Ferris have been named fellows of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA). Bostic serves as the director of USC Price’s Bedrosian on Governance and the Public Enterprise, and Ferris directs The USC Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy. Both were formally inducted on Nov. 14 at the NAPA annual conference in Washington, D.C.

Krieger comments on career development in academia

November 13, 2013

Inside Higher Ed ran commentary by Professor Martin Krieger of the USC Price School of Public Policy excerpted from his recent book, The Scholar’s Survival Manual: A Road Map for Students, Faculty and Administrators. He wrote that those considering an academic field should carefully consider whether they really want to be there: “Often, it is not sour grapes to admit that this job is not for you, but a realization of what you really want,” Krieger said.

Goldman discusses rollout of Affordable Care Act

November 11, 2013

The Los Angeles Times quoted Dana Goldman, USC Price professor and director of the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, about the rollout of the Affordable Care Act.

Currid-Halkett pens NY Times op-ed ‘The 21st Century Silver Spoon’

November 9, 2013

The The New York Times ran an op-ed by USC Price Associate Professor Elizabeth Currid-Halkett about conspicuous consumption in the 21st century. She wrote that today’s top 1 percent spend more on practical, subtle luxuries: education at elite institutions, political and charitable contributions and tutoring. “This new elite spending is an investment in their class’s future, signaling the perpetuation of today’s divide between the nation’s top earners and everyone else,” Currid-Halkett wrote. The story noted that USC Price School doctoral student Hyojung Lee has been analyzing consumer spending with Currid-Halkett.

A three-day conference focused on freight delivery, port operations. and environmental impacts, among other topics

METRANS conference delivers ideas on global freight flow

November 8, 2013

Reflecting a growing interest in global transport issues, the International Urban Freight Conference was hosted last month by the METRANS Transportation Center. The three-day gathering explored the ways in which the movement of freight affects urban areas and how that movement can become more efficient and sustainable worldwide. “Since the first conference in 2006, we have learned a great deal about how freight and international trade affect urban areas,” said Genevieve Giuliano, director of METRANS and senior associate dean at the USC Price School of Public Policy.

Rose offers research at NY Fed conference on managing catastrophic risk in urban areas

November 6, 2013

Adam Rose, USC Price School of Public Policy research professor and coordinator for economics at the CREATE Homeland Security Center, was one of 10 speakers at the Nov. 1 Federal Reserve Bank of New York conference on “Managing the Risk of Catastrophes: Protecting Critical Infrastructure in Urban Areas.” The event was spurred by the need for an examination of key issues in risk management at the one-year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy.

New health study shows ‘July effect’ is serious concern for high-risk patients

November 6, 2013

RedOrbit featured research from Research Assistant Professor John Romley of the USC Price School and colleagues finding that high-risk patients who get sick in July become a serious concern. The research further indicated that high-risk patients who went to teaching hospitals with heart attacks had a five percent higher chance of death in hospital.

Single drivers impacting the city’s transportation

November 6, 2013

Fox News Los Angeles affiliate KTTV-TV interviewed Professor James Moore of the USC Viterbi School about the number of people who drive alone, and how that impacts a city’s transportation.

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