Featured News & Events
MGPS Student Allison Ramirez has journeyed to El Salvador many times, once as a Fulbright Scholar to work on a documentary about the history of oppression and injustice in the country, always with the aim of supporting the families of missing migrants through advocacy work. After graduation, Ramirez plans to continue her work in advocacy, with a focus on migrants’ rights, either in El Salvador or in the United States.
Recently, five LBJ School students led a panel discussion to share their experiences working on juvenile justice issues and start a conversation about how to conduct new research on criminal justice at the School.
The LBJ School of Public Affairs’ Washington, D.C. Program enters its second year with three new summer graduate courses and the addition of two new nationally recognized practitioners as adjunct faculty.
Faculty Spotlight
Shama Gamkhar, Associate Professor, Co-Authors Two Peer-Reviewed Articles on Energy Production and Health Benefits of Renewable Energy Sources
Ian Partridge, LBJ School PhD student and Associate Professor Shama Gamkhar, co-authored two articles "The role of offsets in a post-Kyoto climate agreement: The power sector in China," (Energy Policy, 2010) and “A methodology for estimating health benefits of electricity generation using renewable technologies,” (Environment International 2012). In the first article, the authors examine the incremental cost to the Chinese economy of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by replacing electricity from a coal-fired power station with energy from renewables. They propose an approach to project assessment that could incentivize the electricity generating sector to cut emissions while avoiding some of the problems encountered by the Clean
Development Mechanism, an offset scheme created by Article 12 of the Kyoto Protocol. The second article estimates the health benefits due to the reduction in pollution when coal is replaced by renewables.