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Christine M. Beckman

Professor
Price Family Chair in Social Innovation
Director, Price Center for Social Innovation

* Received an award for her paper, “The Social Innovation Trap: Critical Insights Into an Emerging Field,” from the American Association of Geographers.

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Shui Yan Tang

Professor
Frances R. and John J. Duggan Professor in Public Administration
Chair, Department of Public Policy and Management

* Won Mosher & Mosher Award, with colleagues, for the best academic article in Public Administration Review for 2023.

Mindy Romero

Mindy Romero

Assistant Professor (Research)

* Selected for the 2023 Class of Academy Fellows.


Emma Aguila

Emma Aguila

Associate Professor

* Launched the Hispanic Well-Being Initiative. The initiative will conduct research focused on Hispanics and Latinos to understand the social determinants of their health.

Neeraj Sood

Neeraj Sood

Professor

* Appointed to the CBO Panel of Health Advisors on June 22,2023.

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Danyao Li

Assistant Professor

* Won the Public Management Research Association (PMRA) 2023 Best Dissertation Award for “Bureaucratic Representation, Individual Decision Making and Organizational Performance in Law Enforcement.”

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Geoff Boeing

Assistant Professor

* With collaborators, won the National Planning Institute of Australia Award for Planning Research Excellence for their project “Benchmarking Healthy and Sustainable Cities Globally.”

LaVonna Lewis

LaVonna B. Lewis

Professor (Teaching)
Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

* Promoted to serve as Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the USC Price School.

Elizabeth Graddy

Professor
Jeffrey J. Miller Chair in Government, Business, and the Economy

* In recognition of her career-long commitment to faculty mentorship at the USC Price School and across the university, USC President Carol Folt established a faculty mentoring award in her name.

Karen Mulligan

Karen Mulligan

Assistant Professor (Research)

* Awarded the PhRMA Foundation Mid-Career Faculty Grant in Value Assessment Health Outcomes Research.

Elizabeth Currid-Halkett

Elizabeth Currid-Halkett

Professor
James Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional Planning

* Won a Guggenheim Fellowship. Chosen from a rigorous application and peer review process out of almost 2,500 applicants, Currid-Halkett is one of 171 successful applicants.

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Moussa Diop

Associate Professor

* Promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of Real Estate Development.


Eric Heikkila

Professor

* Assumed the position of President-elect of the Western Regional Science Association at the WRSA annual conference in February 2023.
* Will spend one year as the Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he will be affiliated with a research group focusing on computational social sciences.

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Lois M. Takahashi

Professor (Teaching)
Houston I. Flournoy Professor of State Government
Coordinator, Master of Public Administration – Sacramento

* Selected by the Journal of Planning Education and Research (JPER) as one of the best reviewers from among the JPER editorial board members and non-editorial board members.

Julie Marsh

Julie Marsh

Professor of Education Policy and Public Policy

* Included in the RHSU Edu-Scholar’s 2023 public influencers list, which recognizes university-based scholars in the United States who did the most in the previous year to shape educational practice and policy.

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Christian Grose

Professor of Political Science and International Relations and Public Policy
Academic Director, USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy

* Won the Joseph L. Bernd Award for the best article published in the Journal of Politics in the most recent academic year. The Bernd award was for “Social Lobbying,” published in the Journal of Politics and co-authored with Pamela Lopez, Sara Sadhwani, and Antoine Yoshinaka.
* Selected to be the 2023 Chair of the Midwest Political Science Association program.

Deborah J. Natoli

Deborah J. Natoli

Professor (Teaching)

* Awarded the 2022-2023 USC Interdisciplinary Teaching Grant from the Office of the Provost for her course proposal, “The Art and Science of Leadership.”

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William G. Resh

Associate Professor
C.C. Crawford Professor in Management and Performance

* Invited to the talk “Roundtable on the President’s Management Agenda as part of the ‘Year of Evidence Action,'” McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University, November 16, 2022.
* Voted by the Public Management Research Association’s (PMRA) membership to serve on the Board of Directors for the next 4 years.
* Named to the Advisory Board for the Institute for Public Procurement’s Center for the Advancement of Research and Excellence, August 2023.
* Named to the Strategic Advisory Board of Arizona State University’s Center for Organizational Research and Design (CORD) for a four-year term, August 2023.

Rosalie Pacula

Rosalie Pacula

Professor
Elizabeth Garrett Endowed Chair in Health Policy, Economics, and Law

* Will serve as the new co-chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Forum on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders, which sits under the Population Health Board within NASEM.

Julie Zissimopoulos

Julie M. Zissimopoulos

Professor
Co-Director, Aging and Cognition Program, USC Schaeffer Center

* Promoted to the rank of professor. This is a remarkable academic achievement and a testament to her scholarship, leadership, teaching, and mentoring. Zissimopoulos’ national reputation in research on Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias.
* Selected to serve for two years on the National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine Committee, Research Priorities for Preventing and Treating Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias.

Erroll Southers

Erroll G. Southers

Professor of the Practice in National and Homeland Security
Associate Senior Vice President, Safety and Risk Assurance

* Appointed to the California Commission on the State of Hate by Governor Gavin Newsom.
* Honored by the Anti-Defamation League with the Helene and Joseph Sherwood Prize for Combating Hate, which recognizes law enforcement professionals and volunteers who model innovative ways to combat hate and extremism.
* Named the new president of the Los Angeles Commission that oversees LAPD on August 18, 2023.

Jorge de la Roca

Jorge De la Roca

Associate Professor

* Made an editor of the Journal of Economic Geography.

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Jeffery A. Jenkins

Provost Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and Law
Maria B. Crutcher Professor of Citizenship and Democratic Values; Director, PIPE Collaborative

*Received the V.O. Key Award from the Southern Political Science Association (SPSA) for his book “Congress and the First Civil Rights Era.”

Adam Rose

Adam Rose

Professor (Research)

* Selected as a fellow by the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) for substantial achievement in science or public policy relating to risk analysis.
* Received the Best Border Paper Award, presented at the 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST) .
* Appointed Senior Editorial Board member of Energies.
* Presented testimony to the Senate Budget Committee Hearing on Climate Change and Supply Chain Issues on October 25, 2023

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Genevieve Giuliano

Distinguished Professor
Margaret and John Ferraro Chair in Effective Local Government

* Elected a fellow of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), which globally recognizes her as a regional scientist with outstanding research credentials.
* In February 2023, she was named a USC Distinguished Professor, among the university’s highest academic honors.

Dana Goldman

Dean, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy; C. Erwin & Ione L. Piper Chair;
Leonard D. Schaeffer Director’s Chair, Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics;
University Professor of Public Policy, Pharmacy, and Economics

* Named to the National Academy of Public Administration’s 2022 Class of Academy Fellows.
* Named USC University Professor 2024.

Alexandra Graddy-Reed

Associate Professor

* Selected as an entrepreneurship policy fellow by the Association For Public Policy Analysis & Management.
* Promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of Public Policy.
* Invited to serve on the National Academies review of NASA’s SBIR program