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Michael Knodler (pictured above), 2019 PEP Fellow, PEP Leadership Team member, and Director for the UMass Amherst Transportation Center (UMTC), presenting at the state-of-the-art aviation research and training center officially opened at Westover Municipal Airport in Chicopee on April 26, 2022.

We have a role in making the world a better place. Public Engagement Project (PEP) is a community of scholars that promotes research and expertise for the common good across public domains. We support and train scholars in public engagement through our workshops and fellowship program.

Spotlight

Jamie Rowen (2020 PEP Fellow) regularly contributes across public engagement mediums to political commentary on constitutional limits, executive orders, and more.

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The PEP community actively engages in today’s debates and conversations about the state of the world to make it a better place.

Paul Collins Jr.
2015 PEP Fellow
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Dr. Collins speaks on “forma pauperis,” a legal status that allows people to file lawsuits or appeals without paying upfront costs. He says it is common for the Supreme Court to deny and “it appears that the court’s majority is fed up with what it views as frivolous filings...”
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Joya Misra
2021 PEP Fellow
Joya Misra
Dr. Misra hopes to understand more about the gaps between income and types of transfer income from the state in a Danish study of registry data between 1962 and 1965. She says “child allowances” should not be considered the mother’s income “because they’re meant to support the cost of raising children, not compensating women for labor.”
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Michael Rawlins
2019 PEP Fellow
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Dr. Rawlins shares that New England gets frigid weather for a period because the polar vortex swirls cold air that spills south of the Arctic. Atmospheric patterns are expected to return to seasonal norms as spring approaches.
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In appreciation of their generous support, the UMass Public Engagement Project would like to thank the Office of the Provost, University Relations, and the Colleges of Natural Sciences, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Humanities and Fine Arts, Engineering, Public Health and Health Sciences, and Education. The UMass Public Engagement Project also recognizes and appreciates in-kind contributions and collaborations with the Center for Research on Families and the Institute for Social Science Research.