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School Policies and Healthy Kids

Moynihan Professor Amy Ellen Schwartz is exploring whether public intervention on the nutrition and fitness of students is well-applied and effective. In regards to students health, she asks “We’ve done everything we can to incentivize teachers to do better,” Schwartz says. “Now it’s time to ask, who else? How can we leverage others to help students succeed?”

February 10, 2018

Inarguable Legacy

A new faculty scholars program, which recognizes top teachers with a special emphasis on lower-division, team-taught, interdisciplinary courses, is named the Robert D. McClure Professors of Teaching Excellence, named Bob McClure, former associate dean and current professor at the Maxwell School.

February 10, 2018

See related: Giving, School History

The Unlikely Path

Former colleagues of Agehananda Bharati gather to mark 25 years since his passing.


February 9, 2018

Friendly Advice

Deborah Pellow is devoted to counseling anthropology undergrads, and will tell you it pays dividends for her and them.

February 9, 2018

Right-Hand Man

Mike Wasylenko returns to full-time teaching and research, having spent almost 20 years as the associate dean who keeps Maxwell humming.

February 9, 2018

Different Takes on the Topic

Fabiola Ortiz Valdez, an anthropology doctoral candidate at Maxwell, is shedding light on the stories and struggles of undocumented laborers, primarily from Mexico and Guatemala, who work on New York's dairy farms.

February 9, 2018

Why Afghanistan Matters

Fifteen years after 9/11 refocused American foreign policy — and the career of James Cunningham — the former ambassador says the collapse of Afghanistan remains an unacceptable option.

February 9, 2018

Moderates Opt Out

Danielle Thomsen’s book explores how the current political climate discourages politicians with moderate views from seeking national office.

February 9, 2018

Border Hopping

Anthropologist John Burdick is not only a faculty member conducting research overseas (like so many others). His research team, in fact, spans the globe.

February 9, 2018

Lookin’ for a Job

The annual student-organized networking trips to Washington and New York accelerate career planning and a student’s understanding of life after Maxwell.

February 9, 2018

See related: Student Experience

Helping Hand

At a time when America is sorting out its larger role in the world, experts remind us that U.S. aid is often much appreciated.

February 9, 2018

Beyond Anyone’s Control

Renee Levy discusses the geopolitical dimensions of insurgents, criminals, and radical Islamists, who florish in areas in Afghanistan and Pakistan under a lack of government control. These are among 150 such "black spots" identified by researchers working to map global insecurity as part of an interdisciplinary project in Maxwell’s Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

February 9, 2018

Putin the Meddler

As ever, to understand Russia you must know the man in charge.

February 9, 2018

The Enemy Online

While the term terrorism still conjures up images of bombs and snipers, the frightening future of terrorism resides across the Internet.

February 9, 2018

China: It's Complicated

The web of relationships and mutual benefits between America and China is too complex to dismiss with campaign rhetoric.

February 9, 2018

What Ralph Ketcham Meant to Maxwell

Ralph Ketcham taught citizenship at Maxwell longer than most of us have been alive. And, while doing so, he championed an approach to citizenship education that virtually defines the Maxwell School.

January 1, 2018

See related: In Memoriam

Challenge Will Fund Undergrad Research

A new gift to Maxwell will help underwrite undergraduate research and scholarship, potentially to the tune of $125,000.

January 1, 2018

See related: Student Experience

Online and Intense

Maxwell's new online EMPA is structured to meet the demands of the highly experienced, ambitious students it attracts.

January 1, 2018

See related: Student Experience

Quicken the Sense of Public Duty

Maxwell’s new dean, David M. Van Slyke, takes the Athenian Oath very seriously. And he views the Maxwell School — with all its complexity and plurality and disciplinary cross-currents — as uniquely prepared to uphold it.
December 16, 2016

Veil of Darkness

William Horrace uses an economist’s analytical approach to study whether traffic-stop patterns reveal racial bias by police officers.
June 1, 2016

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