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Heflin article on the effect of material hardship on health published

October 19, 2020

Banks featured in WAER piece on COVID-19 in the White House, national security

"Attention on the domestic political situation and the president’s dominance of the news and his well-being is obscuring what else might be going on in the world that should be drawing some of our attention," says William Banks, professor emeritus of public administration and international affairs.

October 9, 2020

Banks expresses concern about election aftermath in Spectrum News article

"On a scale of one to 10, I’d say my worry is about a nine," says William Banks, professor emeritus of public administration and international affairs. "There are several plausible scenarios that could cause this election to go off the rails."

October 7, 2020

See related: U.S. Elections, United States

Rothbart paper on school finance reform and the race gap in school funding published in Edu F&P

Michah W. Rothbart

September 30, 2020

X Lab article on improving SNAP recertification published in JBPA

Leonard M. Lopoo, Colleen Heflin & Joseph Boskovski

September 24, 2020

See related: State & Local

Duncan protects the electrical grid from cybercrimes at NERC

Matt Duncan ’09 MAIR is now director of intelligence for the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s Electricity (NERC) Information Sharing and Analysis Center (E-ISAC).

September 24, 2020

Heflin, Lopoo, Boskovski study on behavioral interventions & SNAP recertification published in JBPA

Leonard Lopoo, Colleen Heflin & Joseph Boskovski

September 22, 2020

Burman named to advisory committee within the Commerce Department

Leonard Burman, Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics and senior research associate at the Center of Policy Research within Syracuse University’s Maxwell School for Citizenship and Public, has been appointed by the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis to its Advisory Committee on Data for Evidence Building within the U.S., a newly formed committee promoting expanded access to federal data.

September 21, 2020

See related: Economic Policy, Federal, United States

Heflin, Lopoo study on child support income exclusion for SNAP published in Social Science Quarterly

Colleen Heflin, Leonard Lopoo & Mattie Mackenzie-Liu

September 17, 2020

See related: Food Security

Popp quoted in Bloomberg article on Biden's climate plan

Measures to fight climate change tend to destroy some jobs while creating others, says David Popp, professor of public administration and international affairs.

September 17, 2020

Heflin study on material hardship, perceived stress and health in early adulthood published in AE

Ying Huang, Colleen Heflin, Asiya Validova

The authors examined the associations between material hardship and health outcomes in early adulthood and how they are mediated by perceived stress.

September 16, 2020

See related: Health Policy, Mental Health

Li study on receipt of home health care among older adults published

Jun Li, Mingyu Qi & Rachel M. Werner

September 11, 2020

See related: State & Local

Burman quoted in Albany Times Union article on federal aid for New York state

September 10, 2020

See related: Federal, New York State, State & Local, Taxation

Van Slyke keynotes Oxford conference on social impact

Dean David Van Slyke delivered the keynote address at the Blavatnik School of Government's Government Outcomes Lab 2020 Social Outcomes Conference at Oxford University.

September 4, 2020

See related: Awards & Honors, Government

Scholars join faculty for 2020-21; new chairs announced

Five tenure-track faculty members have joined the Maxwell School for the 2020-21 academic year. In addition, three current faculty members have been named chairs of their academic departments.

September 2, 2020

See related: Promotions & Appointments

Shi article on the unequal distribution of substitute teaching

Jing Liu, Susanna Loeb & Ying Shi

August 31, 2020

See related: Civil Rights

Schwartz discusses New York City school bus service in Gotham Gazette

"Although cutting school bus service may seem like an 'easy' way to save money, educators and policymakers should wield the budget knife carefully," write Amy Ellen Schwartz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Chair in Public Affairs, and her co-authors.

August 26, 2020

Steinberg discusses China, India, US connection on Horns of a Dilemma

University Professor Jim Steinberg analyzes, "the United States—for a long time—has viewed India through highly instrumental lenses...the question is, whether that will now change, and whether India will be more willing to be a partner with the United States in an across the board, new Cold War with China."

August 26, 2020

See related: China, Foreign Policy, India, United States

Capstone projects aim to connect theory to practice

Seema Kumar came to the Maxwell School to pursue an Executive Master of Public Administration (EMPA.) Kumar, deputy secretary at the Home Department, Jaipur, the capital of the Indian state Rajasthan, hoped her executive education program would help her improve government operations and assess an e-government initiative.

August 24, 2020

See related: Student Experience

In Memoriam: John Burdick Remembered for Teaching, Advocacy

John Burdick died July 4 of cancer at age 61. He leaves a strong legacy of teaching and research at Syracuse University, of social change in the Syracuse community and of social justice in South America.

August 19, 2020

See related: In Memoriam

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