Faculty, students and others involved with the Center for Public Policy and Administration are invited to attend the 2014 Capstone Conference on May 5 and 6. Graduating students will present the findings from their capstones and answer questions from the audience. Presentations will be in Gordon Hall 302-304 on Monday and in Campus Center 904-908 on Tuesday, starting at 8:30 a.m. and concluding at 1:15 p.m. both days. The full schedule is below.
Monday, May 5
8:30 a.m.
Chris Palmer: The Labyrinth of the Last Mile: An Analysis of Municipal Intervention in the Broadband Marketplace in Massachusetts
8:55 a.m.
Bryan Smith: The Use of Public Participation in the Municipal Budget and Priority Setting Process: A consideration of practices in Massachusetts Cities and Towns
9:20 a.m.
Russell Pandres: Improving Building Flexibility to Increase Housing Affordability
9:45 a.m.
Patrick Kenney: Addressing the Skills Gap in Massachusetts: An Analysis of the Revitalize American Manufacturing and Innovation Act and “America Makes”
10:15 a.m.
Sarah Malek: Identifying the Innovation in Massachusetts Innovation Schools
10:40 a.m.
Kimberley Beachell: Girls Inc. of Holyoke: A Case for Out of School Care
11:05 a.m.
Clint Palermo: The Effect of the NIH Public Access Mandate on Faculty Self-Archiving in the Institutional Repository of UMass Amherst
11:30 a.m.
Nicholas Cummings: Labeling Delinquent Youth and the Impact on Education and Labor Participation
12 p.m.
Olive Munene: The Effect of Financial Development on the Transmission of Monetary Policy through Private Sector Credit-International Evidence
12:25 p.m.
Kumma Jung: Lessons learned from the history of Results Based Management in managing aid effectiveness: Best practices recommended to Korea International Cooperation Agency
12:50 p.m.
Katie Fox: Analysis, Lessons, and Recommendations from the First Three Years of the Piper Fund Broadening the Movement Grant-Making
Tuesday, May, 6
8:30 a.m.
Jeff Stupak: A Novel Environmental Justice Analysis of Allergens and Particulate Matter
8:55 a.m.
Natalie Costa Unda: Environmental Highest Court Decisions: Investigating the factors that influence extractive activities cases in Ecuador
9:20 a.m.
Nodar Kereselidze: The European Union’s Diversification of Natural Gas Supplies: A Policy Analysis
9:50 a.m.
Ana Velásquez- Giraldo: Factors of Health Claim success: case study of Calcium-Osteoporosis and Whole grain- Cancer and heart disease food labeling claims
10:15 a.m.
Wendy Dagle: An Evaluation of State Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Policy
10:40 a.m.
Stefanie Robles: An Analysis and Comparison of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Based Workplace Discrimination
11:05 a.m.
Jonathan Ward: From battery cages to barns: A cost-benefit analysis of a national standard for cage-free egg production
12:05 p.m.
Hasmik Hayrapetyan: The Framing Analysis of Magnitsky Act in the US and in Russia
12:30 p.m.
Gordon Adams: U.S. Drone Policy in the Execution of the Global War on Terrorism
12:55 p.m.
Joanna Springer: Assessing donor strategies in the West Bank using the Fragile States Principles