Three Prize Winners and a Novelist at CPS
Several MPP faculty members have won prestigious awards or made other achievements.
The Master’s Program in Public Policy at the Center for Policy Studies has started its second year with an almost tripled number of students -- thanks to successful fundraising and a higher number of fee-paying students – and the Program is proud to announce that several members of its small permanent faculty recently have won prestigious awards or made other achievements.
Following on from his UK Political Studies Association award received earlier this year, Uwe Puetter in the summer won another prize for his dissertation on European politics and society. The Ernst B. Haas prize is awarded by the "European Politics and Society Section" of the American Political Studies Association (APSA) in commemoration of Ernst B. Haas, who was one of the founding scholars of European Integration research in the 1960s and 1970s.
Alex Fischer, who has just joined the Master’s Program in Public Policy as assistant professor, recently won the young scholar awards of both the Swiss Political Science Association and the Swiss Society of Administrative Sciences. Alex Fischer comes from a position at the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration in Lausanne, Switzerland, Alex received his PhD from Lausanne University in 2004.
Following the completion this fall of her two years as Marie Curie Chair and Head of Master’s Program, Diane Stone will move on to take up a research fellowship award, offered to her by the UK Economic Social Research Council. For her research on non-governmental public action, she has received a grant of 100,000 Euro, which will commence in January 2005 and run over 20 months. The award will allow her to return to CEU in Fall Term 2006.
As announced in this issue of the Gazette, George Guess will take over as new Head of Master’s Program. George Guess not only has a background as a development practitioner and a teacher of public administration – he has also turned his hand to writing fiction. His first novel, "Dogs of Bucharest" will be launched at CEU by the Pendragon bookshop in October. In addition, a semi-fictionalized account of his experience in development work can be found in "Foreign Aid Safari."
15 September, 2005