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September 2007

Anton Lippitt Conference on "The Living Wage" scheduled for October 16th

January 2007

41st Annual Meiklejohn lecture scheduled for March 12th

September 2006

Anton Lippitt Conference on "Sex and the City" scheduled for October 24th

January 2006

Anton Lippitt Conference on Emergency Preparedness scheduled for February 10th

September 2005

Senator John Kerry to Deliver Third Annual Licht Lecture

January, 2005

In December, Professor Ross Cheit was appointed to the RI Ethics Comission by Governor Donald Carcieri.

September, 2004

Former Democratic Presidential contender and Vermont Governor Howard Dean will deliver the 2004 Krieger Lecture, entitled "The Long Term Implications of the 2004 Presidential Election". His talk is part of the Krieger Memorial Lecture.

January, 2004

Center launches Master's of Public Policy Program in 2005

September, 2003

Former Senator and Ambassador Carol Moseley-Braun (D IL) will deliver the 2003 Krieger Lecture at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, September 10 in Salomon 101. Her talk is part of the Krieger Memorial Lecture established by the family and friends of Public Policy Noah Krieger who died in 1993.

January, 2003

Former Senator (D-CO, 1975-1987) and Democratic Presidential Candidate Gary Hart will speak on "Restoration of the Republic," at 4:00 p.m. on March 18, 2003 in the Solomon Center for Teaching, Room 101. In the news recently for his strong criticisms of the Bush Administration's policies in Iraq, several Democratic strategists and spin-doctors have urged him to make another run for the presidency in 2004.

September, 2002

This year the Taubman Center welcomes four new faculty members. In a joint appointment between the Taubman Center and Brown's Economics Department, Brian Knight has been named Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy. Through an appointment with the Political Science Department, Corey Brettschneider has been named Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy.

In addition, the Center has inaugurated its new postdoctoral Fellows program by hiring Julia Rubin and Kevin Esterling for the 2002-2003 academic year. The new postdoctoral Fellows program is being funded by an endowment created by the family of John Hazen White.

Happy and the late John Hazen White, Sr. of Barrington, Rhode Island have created a new endowment fund at the Taubman Center. The fund will be used to support the creation of a post-doctoral fellows program and other activities at the Center. During the academic year 2001-2002, the Center will undertake a national search for post-docs who will conduct research on public policy issues and teach undergraduate courses at the Center.

Frederick Lippitt has created a new endowment fund at the Taubman Center called the Anton/Lippitt Fund for Public Policy, Ross Cheit and a team of eight students study "Erasing of Criminal Records."  Robert Reich delivered the fifth annual Noah Kreiger Memorial Lecture, Senator Jack Reed leads post-election Brown Bag seminar, new West book analyzes "Rise and Fall of Media", Faculty News; Calendar.