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2021 VCU Service Recognition Celebration
A total of 22 Wilder School employees will be recognized at the University’s Annual Service Recognition Celebration, including our namesake and distinguished faculty member Governor L. Douglas Wilder who will be recognized for 25 years of service.
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‘We’re in a race to vaccinate people,’ says Virginia Health Commissioner at Wilder School Event
The Alumni Lunch and Learn series featured M. Norman Oliver, who said the state is in a race against the two new COVID-19 variants.
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Dean Gooden to Receive Prized Public Administration Award
The university community congratulates Wilder School Dean and Professor Susan Gooden, Ph.D., the 2021 recipient of the Charles H. Levine Memorial Award for Excellence in Public Administration.
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2018 Class of MPLI Publish Food Insecurity Findings
Members of the 2018 cohort of the Minority Political Leadership Institute (MPLI) have published new findings on food insecurity in Virginia in the Journal of Public Management and Social Policy (JMPSP).
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Wilder School Alumni Among Fulbright Semifinalists
Wilder School alumna Anna Connor as well as an additional student are among a list of 13 VCU students and alumni selected to advance to the final round of consideration for a Fulbright U.S. Student grant for the 2021-22 academic year.
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VCU Wilder School Grad Students Take First and Third Place in International ‘Pandemic 2.0’ Simulation Competition
VCU Wilder School graduate students, Darshan Parikh, Whitney Brown and Frances Stadlin, and their respective teams, placed first and third in the NASPAA-Batten Student Simulation Competition.
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Virginia’s COVID-19 Vaccine Planning and Administration Response
Join the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs for a Lunch and Learn Zoom presentation on March 17 about the state of Virginia’s COVID-19 vaccine campaign and administration response, featuring M. Norman Oliver, M.D., M.A., commissioner for the Virginia Department of Health.
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Fear, Faulty Equations and Uneven Public Policy: The Real Drivers of Pandemic Economic Decline
William Spriggs, a professor of economics at Howard University and chief economist of the AFL-CIO, joined the latest installment of the Wilder School’s Alumni Lunch and Learn Series on February 17 to address the coronavirus pandemic and the economy.
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Keck Talks Safety during COVID-19
Wilder School Professor James W. Keck was featured in WalletHub's recent article about the Safest States during COVID 19.
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At the General Assembly (sort of) with VCU’s capitol semester students
Interns at the Virginia State Capitol this legislative session are doing most of their work virtually as part of the Virginia Capitol Semester internship program, offered every spring through the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs.
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