Ms. Sheryl Bacon – a doctoral student at the JSU dept of Public Policy & Administration – is selected as the recipient of the Graduate Student Research Award from the 2019 annual conference of the Mississippi Political Science Association, which was held in Hattiesburg, MS, Feb. 8-9th, 2019. She was one of five PPAD students attending the annual research event. Ms. Bacon presented her research of water quality management problems in Flint, Michigan and its implication to Jackson, Mississippi (Bacon_2019 MSPSA Presentation – Lessons from Flint ). The selection result was announced on March 25, 2019, due to the selection process after the conference event.
Her achievement is another solid sign showing that JSU public policy program is moving toward the best graduate program of public policy in the State of Mississippi, and the best HBCU public policy program in the nation.
Congratulations, Ms. Bacon.
Ms. Shryl Bacon works at the Mississippi Urban Research Center (MURC) at Jackson State University as a research associate.
