{"id":3109,"date":"2019-02-09T19:22:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T19:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/?p=3109"},"modified":"2019-02-09T20:57:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T20:57:02","slug":"ppad-students-and-faculty-present-their-research-outputs-at-the-annual-conference-of-mississippi-political-science-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/2019\/02\/09\/ppad-students-and-faculty-present-their-research-outputs-at-the-annual-conference-of-mississippi-political-science-association\/","title":{"rendered":"PPAD Students and Faculty Present their research outputs at the annual conference of Mississippi Political Science Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tFour PPAD students and <strong>Dr. Jae-Young Ko<\/strong>, PPAD Associate Professor presented their research at the&nbsp;Annual Conference of Mississippi Political Science Association (MSPSA)&nbsp;at the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi on&nbsp;February 8<sup>th<\/sup> and 9<sup>th<\/sup>, 2019.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>Ms. Sheryl Bacon <\/strong>(doctoral student) presented her research on environmental quality (title: Lessons from Flint: mitigating the potential health threat of lead contamination in Jackson homes).&nbsp;<strong>Mr. Stephen Chisley <\/strong>(doctoral student) discussed the criminal justice (title: The impact of racial profiling on the deaths of unarmed Black males by police in the U.S., 2007-2017). <strong>Ms. Jennifer Lee <\/strong>(master student) talked about pension compliance (title: Increasing financial security for senior citizens with pension compliance). <strong>Mr. Gregory Ramsey <\/strong>(doctoral student) gave a talk&nbsp;on drug addiction (title: Drug overdose deaths: an impact analysis of the prescription drug monitoring program on Opioid abuse in Mississippi).&nbsp; In addition, <strong>Mr. John Proctor<\/strong> (doctoral student) and <strong>Ms. Stephanie Wright <\/strong>(doctoral student) also attended the academic event.&nbsp;<strong>Dr. Jae-Young Ko <\/strong>presented his preliminary result on minority farming in the U.S. (title: an evaluation of USDA program in recovering Afro-American farmers in the United States).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tFurther, <strong>Dr. Francis Liddell<\/strong>, a retired faculty at PPAD, also attended and proposed an idea of co-hosting the annual conference between ASPA-MS chapter and MSPSA. Dr. Liddell has been the president of American Society of Public Administration&nbsp; (ASPA)-Mississippi Chapter.&nbsp; During the business meeting,&nbsp;<strong>Dr. Jae-Young Ko&nbsp;<\/strong>is elected as <strong>Member-At-Large<\/strong>.&nbsp;<strong>Mr. John Proctor&nbsp;<\/strong>will continuously serve MSPSA for another year as Graduate Student Representative.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe PPAD presentations on multiple areas in&nbsp;public policy&nbsp; and Dr.&nbsp;<strong>Jae-Young Ko&#039;s&nbsp; and Mr. Proctor&#039;s<\/strong> appointments<strong> <\/strong>illustrate&nbsp;well the the depth of the PPAD research program and its dedication to the academic activities for the State of Mississippi.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2019\/02\/20190208_162306.jpg\" rel=\"\" target=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3112 alignleft\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2019\/02\/20190208_162306-300x225.jpg\" style=\"margin: 5px\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2019\/02\/20190208_162306-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2019\/02\/20190208_162306-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2019\/02\/20190208_162306-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t(From left to right : Dr. Jae-Young Ko, Mr. John Proctor, Ms. Sheryl Bacon, Ms. Jennifer Lee, and Mr. Gregory Ramsey)&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four PPAD students and Dr. Jae-Young Ko, PPAD Associate Professor presented their research at the&nbsp;Annual Conference of Mississippi Political Science Association (MSPSA)&nbsp;at the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi on&nbsp;February 8th and 9th, 2019.&nbsp; Ms. Sheryl Bacon (doctoral student) presented her research on environmental quality (title: Lessons from Flint: mitigating the potential health threat of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3109"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3115,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions\/3115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}