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US News ranks ASU's disaster management program top in nation
March 11, 2019

Floods, fires, earthquakes and hurricanes.

Public policy graduate prepared to tackle education issues
December 6, 2018

Editor’s note: This is part of a series of profiles for fall 2018 commencement. 

Feeney assumes editorial leadership of prestigious public administration journal
November 19, 2018

A professor in the ASU School of Public Affairs will take over editing the field’s most prestigious journal in January.

Herbst, Kim begin co-editing Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
November 16, 2018

Two professors in the ASU School of Public Affairs are now co-editors of the prestigious Journal of Policy Analysis and Management or JPAM, a flagship, peer-reviewed scholarly journa

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