{"id":845,"date":"2014-12-05T20:03:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T20:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/?p=845"},"modified":"2014-12-05T20:11:01","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T20:11:01","slug":"jsu-public-policy-student-symposium-2014-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/2014\/12\/05\/jsu-public-policy-student-symposium-2014-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"JSU Public Policy Student Symposium 2014 Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_0571_resized.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"IMG_0571_resized\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-846\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_0571_resized.jpg\" style=\"float: left\" width=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_0571_resized.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_0571_resized-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_0578_resized.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"IMG_0578_resized\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-847\" height=\"249\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_0578_resized.jpg\" width=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_0578_resized.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_0578_resized-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe JSU Public Policy Student Symposium 2014 Fall was held on December 4, 2014 (Organizer: Dr. Jae-Young Ko).&nbsp; The event is organized to increase students&rsquo; independent research skills, and to enhance skills of public communications in a professional setting. &nbsp;Fourteen presentations (ten from PhD and four from MPPA students) were made, covering diverse topics in public policy area.&nbsp; Top three presentations were recognized for the PhD and MPPA students, respectively.&nbsp; The symposium recognizes Mr. Alan Branson (title, &lsquo;An analysis of payday lending locations in Mississippi&rsquo;; in the left picture) for the <span style=\"font-size: 13.3333330154419px;line-height: 20.8000011444092px\">1<\/span><sup style=\"line-height: 20.8000011444092px\">st<\/sup>&nbsp;place of the PhD division, followed by Mr. T&rsquo;Willie Chandler (&lsquo;Incarceration of veterans with post traumatic stress disorder and substance use disorder&rsquo;) for the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place, and Ms. Cassandra Hawkins-Wilson (&lsquo;Children&rsquo;s access to mental health care in Mississippi&rsquo;) for the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> place. &nbsp;&nbsp;For the MPPA division, Ms. Daisy Carter (&lsquo;Pharm Party: A study on prescription drug abuse among teens in Mississippi&rsquo;; in the right picture) won &nbsp;the 1<sup>st<\/sup> place. Mr. James Thompson (&lsquo;A comparative strategy assessment of creating green jobs for five state capital cities &amp; policy recommendations&rsquo;), and Ms. Jermesiah Haywood (&lsquo;Social media&rsquo;s impact on local nonprofit organization Management: Research plan for Mississippi&rsquo;) shared the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> place. &nbsp;Ms. Angeline Walton (&lsquo;Examining urban sprawl as link to sustainable development&rsquo;) achieved the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> place.&nbsp; The semi-annual student symposium is open to the public policy students who want to build the research and presentation skills.&nbsp; The next symposium will be held in the late April 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The JSU Public Policy Student Symposium 2014 Fall was held on December 4, 2014 (Organizer: Dr. Jae-Young Ko).&nbsp; The event is organized to increase students&rsquo; independent research skills, and to enhance skills of public communications in a professional setting. &nbsp;Fourteen presentations (ten from PhD and four from MPPA students) were made, covering diverse topics in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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\/845"}],"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=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}