Dartmouth undergraduates are learning first-hand what's needed to make decisions in state government. In a course called Introduction to Public Policy Research, the students take on real-world issues to inform representatives of state government. The course, taught by Ron Shaiko, associate director of Dartmouth's Rockefeller Center, is part of Rockefeller's initiative called the Policy Research Shop, or PRS. The PRS is a nonpartisan operation staffed by undergraduate students who provide quality, objective research to the New Hampshire and Vermont state legislatures.<br><br><a href='http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2006/12/08a.html&#039; target='_blank'>http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2006/12/08a.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br>