News for September 2009

Colleen Chrisinger Awarded West Coast Poverty Center Dissertation Fellowship

Ph.D. student Colleen Chrisinger is the recipient of the West Coast Poverty Center Dissertation Fellowship for her project “The Impacts of Workforce Development and Wage Policies on the Economic Well-Being of Low-Income Individuals and Families.” As part of the award, she will receive a research assistantship and tuition waiver for her dissertation research during winter quarter 2010.
Nancy Bell Evans Featured in the Washington State Legacy Project

Nancy Bell Evans, the namesake of the Evans School's Nancy Bell Evans Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, is the latest Washingtonian featured in the Secretary of State's Washington State Legacy Project. Read her oral history, Nancy Evans: First-Rate First Lady
Forbes Magazine Features Research from Mark Long

Associate Professor Mark Long's research on how college quality affects early adult outcomes, including early career earnings, was cited in the article "Why Elite Colleges Don't Equal Earnings" in Forbes Magazine. Read his Evans School Working Paper (561 KB PDF) cited by Forbes.

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