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Hamish Gibbs ’17 BA (Geog) named Saint Andrew’s Society of NY Scholar
Hamish Gibbs ’17 BA (Geog) has been named the recipient of a 2018 Saint Andrew’s Society of New York Scholarship. The award is granted to two students in the United States each year who are of Scottish descent, and it funds one year of graduate study in Scotland.

PhD student Drew Kinney '14 MA (PSc) publishes article on ME crisis
"The Middle East Crisis: Trump, Syria, Russia, Iran, Israel and More," written by PhD student Drew Kinney '14 MA (PSc), was published on the Utica College Center of Public Affairs and Election Research website.

Winter ’18 Perspective features undergrad research, Ralph Ketcham
The Winter 2018 edition of Maxwell Perspective was recently printed and mailed to all alumni, faculty, staff, students, and other friends of the Maxwell School. At the same time, online editions of many of the articles are now available at the Maxwell Perspective website.

PhD student Fabiola Ortiz discusses harassment on NY farms with NPR
Fabiola Ortiz '16 MA (Anth) and PhD student in anthropology was interviewed for the segment "A Sexual Harassment Nightmare in Rural New York" on NPR's Latino USA. "When you are an undocumented farmworker, you have very little resources," says Ortiz, who studies New York dairy farmworkers.

Baldanza gift supports undergraduate research
The Baldanza Endowment for Undergraduate Excellence will meet expenses associated with undergraduate research and experiential learning. It will also help fund Maxwell’s annual Celebration of Undergraduate Scholarship, an event held near the end of each academic year to share and reward undergraduate research projects.

Harkin estate gift supports Birkhead-Burkhead Fund
Alumnus James M. Harkin ’76 MSSc/’78 PhD (SSc) and his wife, Lucille Boilard-Harkin, have made estate plans that will provide ongoing scholarship support to students in Maxwell’s MPA degree program. The gift will support Maxwell’s Birkhead-Burkhead Fund, of which James Harkin was a founding donor in 1987.

Maxwell researchers contribute to book on health of aging veterans
Several faculty members and a PhD candidate from the Maxwell School’s Department of Sociology and Syracuse University’s Aging Studies Institute have contributed to a groundbreaking new book, Long-Term Outcomes of Military Service: The Health and Well-Being of Aging Veterans, published by the American Psychological Association.

Wolf, Arora study on PFL, nursing home costs featured in JPAM
"Does Paid Family Leave Reduce Nursing Home Use? The California Experience," by Douglas Wolf and Kanika Arora '15 PhD (PA), finds that California’s Paid Family Leave act appears to have reduced the rate of nursing home usage among the older population which could produce a substantial reduction in Medicare and Medicaid costs.

Fulbright recipient from Maxwell flourishes in living, learning abroad
A semester and a summer abroad with SU Abroad and two highly competitive national awards—a Fulbright and a Boren Scholarship—have kept Frederick "Rick" Cieri '17 BA (IR) exploring and learning abroad for the better part of the last three years.

Keck, Hoy discuss case on artistic expression, civil rights in PS
Tom Keck, Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics, and PhD candidate Aaron Hoy '14 MA (Soc), were featured in the Post Standard article, "Cake wars: Supreme Court to hear case on artistic expression, civil rights."

Maxwell alum paper on Ukraine's education law published on BlogActiv
Mark Temnycky '17 MPA/IR outlines the controversy surrounding Ukraine’s recent education law, and the steps the Eastern European state has taken to comply with the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in his article "The Double Standard Surrounding Ukraine’s Education Law," published on BlogActiv.

PhD candidate Aaron Hoy article on same-sex divorce published in JDR
Sociology PhD candidate Aaron Hoy '14 MA (Soc) examines the challenges that gays and lesbians face when divorcing in his paper "Invisibility, Illegibility, and Stigma: The Citizenship Experiences of Divorced Gays and Lesbians," published in the Journal of Divorce and Remarriage.

Cameron MacPherson '16 BA (IR) named as SU's first Mitchell Scholar
Cameron MacPherson ’16 BA (IR) has been named a recipient of the prestigious George J. Mitchell Scholarship for graduate study in Ireland. He is Syracuse University’s first Mitchell Scholar. MacPherson is one of only 12 U.S. students selected from more than 300 applicants for the award this year.

London and Hoy article on sexuality, marriage duration published in PR
In their study, "Same-Sex Sexuality and the Duration of First Different-Sex Marriages," Andrew London and PhD candidate Aaron Hoy '14 MA (Soc) find that different dimensions of same-sex sexuality reduce marital duration by 18-24 months among the once married, once divorced. Their paper was recently published in Population Review.

Maxwell alums featured in US News article on college prep for veterans
Nicholas Armstrong '08 MPA/'14 PhD (SSc) and Mitchell Forbes '16 BA (PSt), current EMPA student and 2017-18 SoldierStrong scholar, were interviewed for the U.S. News & World Report article "Prepare for College as a Veteran."

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