University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Department of Public Policy e-News

No. 8 – July 2008

In this issue:

• Hot Topic - Class of 2007-2008
• Adele Kirk joins Public Policy faculty
• Judith Shinogle is new MIPAR senior research scientist
• Cheryl Miller is associate dean in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
• Nancy Miller will oversee program to support student research in gerontological health
• Bryan Cimorelli selected as a Presidential Management Fellow
• Jonathan Hart is Baltimore County Fire Department's first black battalion chief
• Ben Lloyd is manager in McCain presidential campaign
• Greg Simmons named interim vice president for UMBC's Office of Institutional Advancement
• Recent publications

The University as a whole achieved a milestone this year, awarding a record 114 Ph.D. degrees in 17 different disciplines.

Faculty
Adele Kirk has joined the Public Policy faculty as Assistant Professor of Public Policy. Her fields of interest include health economics, labor economics, and quantitative methods. Prof. Kirk has a Ph.D. in Health Services from UCLA and a Master’s in Health Administration from the University of Ottawa, Ontario. Before coming to UMBC, Dr. Kirk was an AcademyHealth/NCHS Health Policy Fellow at the National Center for Health Statistics. Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked in the Office of Health Policy, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at HHS, and as a research associate at the Alpha Center, a health policy and research center.

Judith Shinogle has joined the Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (MIPAR) as a senior research scientist. She will be responsible for developing proposals for submission to external funding agencies, and for conducting applied and scholarly social science research. Dr. Shinogle has a Ph.D. in Public Health Economics from the Johns Hopkins University, and a master’s in Health Policy from the Harvard School of Public Health. She was an assistant professor in the Department of Health Services Administration at the University of Maryland College Park.

Cheryl Miller, Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Chair of the Department of Political Science, has joined the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences as an associate dean. Dr. Miller joined the Department of Public Policy in 1988, and has taught courses on the policy process, poverty and social welfare policy, American political institutions, and theories of public administration.

As chair of the American Public Health Association’s (APHA) Gerontological Health Section, Nancy Miller will oversee a new program to provide grants to support students researching the health needs of older adults. APHA received a grant from the Retirement Research Foundation to distribute research funds over the next 10 years to support the work of Ph.D., master’s and bachelor’s students entering the field of gerontological health. APHA News Release

Students
Bryan Cimorelli (M.P.P., 2008) has been selected for a prestigious Presidential Management Fellowship (PMF), a two year paid fellowship in a federal government agency for students with recent graduate degrees. Applicants are nominated to this highly competitive program by their schools. Out of 3,625 applicants, the PMF class of 2008 had 754 finalists representing almost 200 schools. Bryan, a policy analyst, will be working for the Social Security Administration.

Alumni
Jonathan Hart (M.P.S., 2002) has been named a battalion chief by the Baltimore County Fire Department. He is the department's first black battalion chief. He also received his B.A. in Political Science from UMBC.

Ben Lloyd (M.P.P., 2005) is manager of the McCain "war room," which monitors campaign media coverage at the McCain for President National Headquarters in Virginia.

Greg Simmons (M.P.P., 2004) was named Interim Vice President of UMBC’s Office of Institutional Advancement. Greg joined UMBC in 1993 and was most recently Associate Vice President for Development, helping to build corporate and foundation relationships. Sheldon Caplis, who served as Vice President of Institutional Advancement for 15 years, has left UMBC to become Vice President of Community Relations for CITI Bank.

Publications
Brennan, Timothy J. 2008. “Applying ‘Merger Guidelines’ Market Definition to (De)Regulatory Policy: Pros and Cons.” Telecommunications Policy. 32(6): 388-398.

DeWitt, Larry, Beland, D., & Berkowitz, E. (2008). Social Security: A Documentary History. Washington, DC: CQ Press. Larry DeWitt is a Public Policy Ph.D. student.

Marcotte, Dave E. and Steven W. Hemelt. 2008. "Unscheduled School Closings and Student Performance." Education Finance and Policy. 3:3, 316-338. Steven Hemelt is a Public Policy Ph.D. student.

Short, John Rennie and Lisa Benton-Short. 2007. Cities and Nature. New York, NY: Routledge.

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