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Logan Strother discusses National Flood Insurance Program on NPR
Logan Strother '13 MA (PSc)/'17 PhD (PSc) talks about the challenges facing the National Flood Insurance Program, including the small percentage of policy holders whose properties are repeatedly flooded and bailed out by insurance payouts, on the NPR's Here & Now radio program.

Joseph Boskovski ’14 MPA helps governments make effective policy

Alumnus Joseph Boskovski co-founded Maxwell X Lab with Professor Len Lopoo, director of the Center for Policy Research, to help governments and non-profits make better policies by applying scientific standards for testing their proposed interventions. Through Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs), policymakers can discern the outcome of various "nudges" on actual human behavior rather than assuming how humans might respond.

Logan Strother discusses National Flood Insurance Program in Wash Post
Logan Strother '13 MA (PSc)/'17 PhD (PSc) takes a look at the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) in his article, "National flood insurance will help clean up after Irma and Harvey. And that’s a problem," that was published in the Washington Post.

Van der Vort discusses LGBT groups, trans military ban in Wash Post
Eric van der Vort '13 MA (PSc), a PhD candidate in political science, discusses how LGBT organizations and factions that used to battle one another are now working together and what it means for the future in his article "How the LGBT movement came together to fight Trump’s transgender military ban," that was published in the Washington Post.

Sam Jackson '16 MA (PSc) discusses militia movement in Washington Post
Sam Jackson '16 MA (PSc), a PhD candidate in social science, examines the complicated history of how racial identity has influenced the militia movement in his article "Don’t assume the militias at the Charlottesville rally were white supremacists. This is what they believe now," published in the Washington Post.

Distinguished Maxwell alum John P. White dies at 80
John P. White '64 MA (Econ)/'69 PhD (Econ), deputy secretary of defense in the Clinton administration who also had served during the Carter presidency as deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget and as assistant secretary of defense for manpower, reserve affairs and logistics, died Sept. 3 at the age of 80.

Soleil Young '17 BA (Anth) makes discovery at the Smithsonian
Student researcher Soleil Young ’17, a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program, discovered tuberculosis DNA in the tartar on the teeth of individuals in a collection specifically for biological research in the Smithsonian’s Division of Physical Anthropology.

David Bing ’66 BA (Econ) to deliver keynote address at SU's CBT gala
When David Bing ’66, H’06 delivers the keynote address at this fall’s Coming Back Together (CBT) gala, he will reflect on a rich and varied career in sports, business, politics and philanthropy.

Alumna Maddy Hamlin publishes piece on public housing in CityLab
"The enduring stigma against ex-offenders makes providing them with subsidized housing a tough sell in a city where affordable housing is in short supply," says Madeleine Hamlin ’17 MPA/MA (Geog). Read her article, "In Chicago, Another Public Housing Experiment: Prisoner Reentry," on The Atlantic-affiliated site CityLab.

Jenny Sacks '08 BA (Soc) to receive Generation Orange Award
The Generation Orange Award recognizes alumni who have made an impact on campus and in their communities through volunteer work and philanthropy on behalf of Syracuse University. Read the full article here.

Logan Strother article on Confederate symbols published in LSE blog
Logan Strother '13 MA (PSc), a PhD candidate in political science at the Maxwell School, co-authored an article on the relationship between support of Confederate symbols in public spaces in the South and knowledge of Civil War history that was published in the London School of Economics U.S. Centre's daily blog, American Politics and Policy.

Alex Lynch '16 BA (PSc/CCE) featured in local media for CCE project
For his final project in Maxwell's CCE program, Alex Lynch '16 BA (PSc/CCE) studied crime in the student-heavy University Hill neighborhood. Now, a year after graduating, he's raised enough money to put his plan in front of the Syracuse Common Council.

Maxwell School honors new graduates at 2017 MPA Convocation
A new cohort of Maxwell MPAs celebrated the completion of their degrees at the Department of Public Administration and International Affairs’s annual convocation, held Friday, June 30, in Goldstein Auditorium. The keynote was given by former chairman, president, and CEO of PacifiCare, Howie Phanstiel BA ’70 (PSc)/MPA ’71.

Nilab Mobarez '16 EMPA heads Afghan Red Crescent Society
Nilab Mobarez '16 EMPA has been appointed secretary general of the Afghan Red Crescent Society. Founded in 1934, the Afghan Red Crescent Society is the Afghan affiliate for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies — the world's largest humanitarian network.

Van der Vort '13 MA (PSc) publishes article on playful protesting
Eric van der Vort '13 MA (PSc), a PhD candidate in political science, discusses the use of playful elements to keep protesters engaged and active in his article, "Playful Politics Can Make Protest More Effective," published on the Utica College Center of Public Affairs and Election Research website.

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