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Eric W. Welch
Eric W. Welch is an Associate Professor and director of the Science, Technology and Environment Policy Lab in the Department of Public Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research focuses on technology processes in public organizations, environmental policy, science and technology policy, and R&D performance evaluation. Prof. Welch teaches courses in innovation and technology theory, decision analysis, organization theory and environmental policy in both the masters of public administration and Ph.D. programs. His research has been published in such journals as Policy Sciences, Environmental Science and Policy, Transportation Research – D Environment, Journal of Public Policy and Management, Political Communication, and Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. He is currently working on a book length manuscript on R&D Evaluation Methods entitled: The New Generation of R&D Evaluation Methods: A Cross-National Review of Performance Measurement to be published by Edward Elgar. (cv) |
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Meg Haller
Meg Haller is a Research Assistant Professor and a principal in the Science, Technology and Environment Policy Lab in the Department of Public Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on public entrepreneurship, social networks, science and technology policy, and environmental policy. Prof. Haller teaches courses in policy analysis, and intergovernmental relations in both the undergraduate and master’s of public administration programs. Prof. Haller is involved in numerous multi-year research projects including a National Science Foundation funded effort entitled “Women in Science and Engineering: Network Access, Participation and Outcomes,” a longitudinal evaluation of research outcomes of the IGERT program at UIC, and a USDA funded effort to map the international trade networks of agricultural genetic material. In the environmental area, Prof. Haller has conducted research to understand the processes and evaluate the outcomes of fleet conversion from gasoline to alternative fuel vehicles in Du Page County, Illinois. She is pursuing promising research opportunities to understand policy incentives to increase the use of green building materials in affordable housing. Prof. Haller received her PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2008. Her dissertation investigated the role of social networks and cognitions on scientist’s entrepreneurial behavior. (cv) |
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Mary Feeney
Mary K. Feeney is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Administration at UIC. She holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration and Policy from the University of Georgia. She is interested in public management and sector distinctions and science and technology policy. She is currently working on research investigating mentoring in public and nonprofit organizations, rules and red tape within public organizations and across public and private organizations, and mentoring in ST& E fields. Dr. Feeney recently served on the Panel on Modernizing the Infrastructure of the National Science Foundation Federal Funds for R&D Survey (National Research Council, Committee on National Statistics). Feeney’s work on mentoring can be found in Human Relations, Review of Public Personnel Administration, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Administration & Society, and the International Journal of Learning and Change. Feeney has also published in Public Performance & Management Review, Public Integrity, and Research Evaluation. (cv) |
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Vern Long
Jennifer “Vern” Long is a Visiting Assistant Research Professor in the Departments of Biological Sciences & Public Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She serves as a consultant for the US Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service on genetic resource policy issues as they relate to Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS). ABS refers to on-going negotiations of the Convention on Biological Diversity to develop terms of access to and benefit sharing from the use of genetic resources. Her research focuses on examining exchange and use patterns of genetic resources of relevance to food and agriculture among the community of users in the US public and private sectors. Her previous research examined food systems approaches to increasing dietary diversity and improving child nutrition in communities in Senegal, Zimbabwe, and Kenya. She was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Senegal and served as an American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science & Technology Policy Fellow with the USDA/Foreign Agricultural Service in Washington, DC. (cv) |
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Karen Mossberger
Karen Mossberger is an Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in Public Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research on technology and public policy focuses on digital inequality and e-government. Her forthcoming book, co-authored with Caroline Tolbert and Ramona McNeal on Digital Citizenship: The Internet, Society, and Participation (MIT Press) presents evidence on the benefits that information technology has for political and economic participation, and its consequences for citizenship and equality of opportunity. This work builds on an earlier book, Virtual Inequality: Beyond the Digital Divide (Mossberger, Tolbert and Stansbury, Georgetown University Press, 2003). Other recent research examines the impact of Internet use at work for less-educated workers, and patterns ofinformation technology use in poor communities. Her coauthored paper on “Race, Place, and Information Technology” (with Caroline Tolbert and Michele Gilbert) won the 2005 Best Paper Award for the Public Policy Section of the American Political Science Association. Using multilevel models, the authors show the impact of living in high-poverty communities, which explain racial disparities in technology use for African-Americans, and restrict opportunities for individuals of all races. Mossberger is also part of a multi-national research project on “Regenerating Urban Neighborhoods,” which will include 18 cities in 11 countries. Team members recently met in Bellagio, Italy at the Rockefeller Foundation Conference and Study Center. (cv) |
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Yonghong Wu
Professor Yonghong Wu's research primarily focuses on the interconnections among public finance, technological innovation, and economic development. One major topic of his research is to investigate the effects of government finance policies targeting on research and development (R&D) activities. With the assumption that the induced investment in R&D may play a significant role in technology-driven economic development, governments at various levels have been providing fiscal incentives for R&D. Dr. Wu’s article in Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (2005) examines the effects of state R&D tax credits on private R&D expenditures in the U.S. states. His article in Economic Development Quarterly (2008) takes a step forward by examining how the state R&D tax credits affect the growth of state’s high-technology sector. Dr. Wu’s recent research has focused on NSF’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). His JPAM article (2009) examines the relationship between EPSCoR and state’s funding of academic research. The empirical results indicate that EPSCoR, while increasing federal R&D assistance, may crowd out financial support for academic research from the governments of EPSCoR states. Future research will assess how EPSCoR has affected research capacity of EPSCoR universities and researchers. (cv) |
