PPPE/ POEC alumni in Puerto Rico!

Hi all,

It was wonderful to see two alumni of the PPPE program last month at the Latin American Studies Association's annual meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico.  Sharon Wrobel (PhD 2005) is working at University of Memphis.  In Puerto Rico, she was studying decentralization in Cuba.  Alejandro Tirado (PhD 2012) is moving to Rhode Island to teach after working at Texas Tech for a few years.  He is working on an evaluation of Mexico's Oportunidades program.

Here are a few pictures of us.  The PPPE alumni group keeps in touch!

Congratulations to Dani Litovsky Alcalá (BS IPE 2014).  She was admitted (with a scholarship!) to the University of Chicago's  Master's degree in Computational Analysis & Public Policy (CAPP).

We are all so proud!

Keep us posted of your successes!

JH

This fall, Dr. Javier Osorio came to campus to lead a workshop on his new software package, Eventus.  This new program machine codes news stories in Spanish.  One of our current PPPE students, Viveca Pavon is going to use this for her dissertation.  Here is a preliminary paper of hers outlining some topics that may be better studied using this tool.

PPPE is known for offering opportunities to students to learn sophisticated new tools and methods.  We will keep you posted on her progress.