Welcome to the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences at The University of Texas at Dallas. We are pleased to introduce you to our faculty, our students, and our staff and to tell you about what we do.
This is an exciting time to be Dean of the school. Since its beginning, the school has worked to benefit our city, our state, and our country. Due to the efforts of school faculty, with support from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, we know more about how people learn to trust each other and how their trust in public officials helps them to make important policy-relevant choices.
Because of faculty research, again supported by NSF, we know more about the risks posed to children by lead-based house paints versus leaded gasoline exhaust. And, because of the Texas Schools Project and the Andrew Mellon Foundation, we know more about why the “Top Ten Percent Plan” did not break the fall in minority higher education admissions in Texas in the aftermath of the Hopwood Court decision.
These activities, together with school support of top-tier journals, including The American Journal of Political Science, Crime and Delinquency, Electoral Studies, and the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, show its commitment to the production and communication of publicly beneficial research.
As the school moves into the future, its pioneering initiatives in research and education promise new ways to serve multiple communities. Within the next few years, it will:
- Continue to build a flagship program in geospatial social science capable of addressing crucially important questions about people, place and space.
- Develop an institute for decision making and human behavior, in conjunction with the Center for Global Collective Action and the Center for Experimental Research in the Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, with a focus on understanding the complexities and public effects of individual and collective decision making.
- Develop advanced research methodologies through the Center for Survey Methodology and the Center for Experimental Research that capitalize on the school’s world-class faculty expertise in experimental, spatial, survey, and time series methodology and analysis.
- Expand its highly successful existing outreach programs in the Institute for Public Affairs and in criminology that build strong community partnerships and, in turn, opportunities in North Texas and beyond.
These initiatives will intersect with the school’s undergraduate and graduate programs in criminology, economics, geospatial science, political science, public affairs, public policy, and sociology, as well as with new programs to provide educational, career, and citizenship opportunities. Please explore this site and, if you have any questions, then contact us.
about Brian Berry
Brian J.L. Berry is Lloyd Viel Berkner Regental Professor and Dean of the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences.
After graduating from University College, London and the University of Washington (Ph.D.) and before coming to UTD, he held appointments at the University of Chicago, Harvard, and Carnegie-Mellon.
Brian Berry is a member of the National Academy of Sciences as well as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the British Academy.
He is a recipient of the Victoria Medal from the Royal Geographical Society and, most recently, was named Vautrin Lud Laureate (geography's Nobel Prize).
- Updated: October 19, 2006
