United in Resolve and Hope
Nearly two years after the full-scale Russian invasion, Ukrainian students find refuge in a community of scholars with a long history of supporting those impacted by war.
Before attending the Maxwell School to pursue an MPA, Linh Nguyen supported Ukraine’s work to rebuild Mariupol following Russia’s 2014 attacks.
He was in his senior year at the Maxwell School when the Russian invasion began.
Cheng and his coauthors find that influenza deaths are dramatically under-counted in Philippines' national data. About
5,350 Filipinos die from the flu each year. Most deaths occur in the very young and the very old age group. Read the study here:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0234715.
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Class Notes
Katherine Frega ’16 B.A. (PSt)
has accepted a faculty appointment as a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at SUNY Upstate Medical University, where she will also complete her residency in OB-GYN in June 2024.
John R. Gall ’16 M.A. (IR)
started a new position in January 2023 as an analyst with PotomacWave in Washington, D.C.
Phillip Burke ’07 B.A. (Soc)
was a top 13 finalist out of 850 submissions for his play, “He’s the First,” in the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival. Based in New York City, the festival promotes emerging directors, performers and producers. He also earned a B.F.A. from the College of Visual and Performing Arts in 2007 and is an inaugural fellow with The Latinx Playwrights Circle Summer Jam Fellowship.
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Cheng and his coauthors find that influenza deaths are dramatically under-counted in Philippines' national data. About
5,350 Filipinos die from the flu each year. Most deaths occur in the very young and the very old age group. Read the study here:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0234715.