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Josh Busby Grawemeyer Award Winner

2026 Grawemeyer World Order Award Winner Explores the Connection Between Climate Change and Security

For his work to understand why climate change leads to negative security consequences in some places and not others, Joshua W. Busby, professor of public affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, will receive the 2026 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. Busby presented these ideas in his book, “States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security.”
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New ACLU Report Reveals Humanitarian Crisis of Rapidly Aging Prison Population

The American Civil Liberties Union and the Prison and Jail Innovation Lab at the University of Texas LBJ School of Public Affairs released Trapped in Time: The Silent Crisis of Elderly Incarceration today, a report exposing how U.S. prisons are failing to keep up with the rising number of aging people behind bars.
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Report from UT's LBJ School of Public Affairs Highlights Critical Reserve Needs for Emergency Services Districts

A new report from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin finds that Texas Emergency Services Districts (ESDs) should consider maintaining significantly higher financial reserves to protect emergency services from the growing threats of extreme weather, economic volatility and political change.

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