Sarah Bobardt is a sixth-year Ph.D. Candidate in the Genetics, Genomics, and Bioinformatics program and co-chair of Science to Policy. In the Fall of 2022, she was a part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s White House Internship Program. She had the opportunity to attend a weekly speaker series with senior White House staff, cabinet secretaries, and...
This evening, Science to Policy conferred certificates to the fifth cohort of the S2P Certificate Course! The founding Dean of the School of Public Policy, Anil Deolalikar, the Dean of the Graduate Division, Sean Bowler, and the Dean of Engineering, Chris Lynch, attended the ceremony to confer certificates. Congressman Mark Takano was the keynote speaker...
UCR Science to policy held a Policy Pitch Competition. Think shark tank for public policy proposals. 3 UCR students (Sarah Bobardt, Elijah Hall, and Stephanie Piper) and 2 UCLA students (Bineh Ndefru and Yuki Hebner) competed for a cash prize and trip to Sacramento to pitch their winning policy to lawmakers. Pitches ranged from ecological...
The UCR School of Public Policy's podcast series, Policy Chats, features S2P Director Susan Hackwood, discussing the importance of bridging the gap between scientists and policy makers, "there is an enormous need to bridge the science world with the policy world. They speak different languages, do different things. So they think differently." Read the transcript...
