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A team of students and faculty representing the LBJ School that will research health system gaps in diabetes care in Mexico is among the five winners of the 2019–20 President's Award for Global Learning.

Sam Lee, a first-year Master of Global Policy Studies (MGPS) student at the LBJ School, said his visit to the school was a turning point for him.

Alumni award winners Abrams and Metayer talk public service, citizenship, LBJ legacy

The mission of the LBJ School is to train both "thinkers and doers," and a hallmark of the LBJ experience is a curriculum that combines academic work with practical experience in the policy world.

Since 2016, the Ray Marshall Center has been providing technical assistance to support Nuru International's monitoring and evaluation (M&E) team.

Dr. Varun Rai, associate dean for research at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and director of the Energy Institute at The University of Texas at Austin, has been honored with a 2019 Young Alumni Achiever Award by the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT).

A group of 12 students from the LBJ School and the Institute for Innovation, Creativity and Capital at UT investigated the challenges involved in reconstructing homes in rural areas damaged by the earthquake.

Core to the LBJ School's mission is "getting it done" — developing solutions to policy problems through scholarship and public discourse.

Aldo Flores-Quiroga is former deputy secretary of energy for hydrocarbons at Mexico’s Ministry of Energy (2016–18), where he led a team of more than 180 government officials to implement the historic opening of Mexico’s hydrocarbons sector.

A team of seven LBJ School of Public Affairs students was named regional winner of the 2019 NASPAA-Batten Student Simulation Competition on Feb. 23.