Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs

Urban Planning Researchers Study Past Infrastructure Harms to Avoid Repeating Them

Researchers at the recent 2025 CTS Transportation Research Conference presented their findings on equitable transportation ...
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Q/A with Professor Ryan Allen: Understanding the Housing Market

The Morris Park neighborhood in Minneapolis. Photo: User Fibonacci Blue via Creative Commons Americans are facing an affordability crisis. Consumers are grappling with higher costs for groceries, ...
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Human Rights Student's Internship with the UN Illuminates New Ways She Can Make a Difference

Aidan Thomason (MHR '26) interned this past summer at the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland. Submitted photo Even in a time of human rights backlash, ...
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STEP Seminar: Utility Accountability in Policy and Regulation

Join us Tuesday for a lunchtime seminar with Karlee Weinmann, Research and Communications Manager with the Energy and Policy Institute. Karlee will discuss how monopoly utilities seek to influence ...
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Environmental Expert Michael Regan: Climate Action is Possible if We All Work Together

Michael Regan spoke about climate policy October 28 as part of the Humphrey School's Advancing Climate Solutions. Now. series. Photos: Craig Bares Former EPA Administrator Michael Regan delivered an ...
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STEP x Funds Enterprise Seminar: “Balancing Feelings and Action” - Finance in a Burning World

Join us for a seminar in collaboration with the Carlson Funds Enterprise, led by Director Susanna Gibbons, to explore climate finance and the energy transition in today’s policy landscape. This event ...
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STEP x Circularity Seminar: Kristin Sako, Allina Health

Join us for a seminar co-hosted by the NSF Circularity Traineeship Program and Center for Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy on sustainability in the healthcare industry, featuring ...
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Saint Augustine: From Africa to Pope Leo

St Augustine forged the sacred foundations of Western Christianity – from original sin to God’s grace. Pope Leo’s spiritual home is in the Augustinian religious order. Augustine was born in Africa and ...
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2025 Public Leadership Awards: A Call to Action in Challenging Times

2025 Public Leadership Awardees with Dean Nisha Botchwey. L-R: Dave Kleis, Melanie Benjamin, Joan Growe, Botchwey, Denis McDonough. Photos: Bruce Silcox Nearly 400 friends and supporters of the ...
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Social Policy Expert Maria Hanratty Retires from Humphrey School

Poverty and homelessness can seem like intractable problems. The solutions seem straightforward: Don't people just need housing? But the causes—and the solutions—are surprisingly complex. Maria ...
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Joe Soss Co-Authors New Book on The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice

Professor Joe Soss is co-author of a new book, Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice, published by the University of Chicago Press. Drawing on historical and contemporary ...
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Humphrey School Alumnus Kalvin Moschkau in Mongolia for Conservation Work, Thanks to a Luce Scholarship

Kalvin Moschkau (second from right) poses with a group of Humphrey School students and faculty at the Genghis Khan monument in Mongolia in 2022. Photos courtesy Kalvin Moschkau Humphrey School alumnus ...