Patricia Farrell Donahue

George Mason University | GMU · Center for Science and Technology Policy

A lesson learned from decades of research is that businesses and nonprofits can form private partnerships to serve the public good. One such partnership is a cause‐related marketing campaign, where a business donates a portion of its sales to a nonprofit to address a social need. To help counter the devastating health and economic impact of COVID‐1...

Participation, Community, and Public Policy in a Virginia Suburb: Of Our Own Making challenges the conventional wisdom about participation in modern American communities through the story of Pimmit Hills, Virginia—one of the first federally-financed subdivisions built for World War II veterans. Its story will be familiar to the millions of baby boo...

Recent research suggests waning participation in community-based organizations by Americans can lead to changes in related public policies and policy implementation. This study examines participation relative to variances in settings, and individuals and to policy outcomes. Based on a proposed a participation-community theory and assertions that co...

Public agencies, private businesses and researchers employ time-use studies to track how individuals actually spend their time. A recent study by the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) used a scanner technology to electronically record, transmit, and analyze time study data. This paper presents an overview of time study methodologies, and a discu...

The isothermal and thermocyclic oxidation behavior of various advanced single-crystal and directionally solidified superalloys in flowing air at a temperature of 2000 F(1093 C) has been studied. The methods included thermogravimetric measurements of oxidation rates and examination of the specimens by x-ray diffraction (XRD), optical metallography,...