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PhD candidate Adrienne Atterberry receives Chancellor's Citation
Adrienne Atterberry, a PhD candidate in sociology, received a 2020 Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence in Student Research as part of the One University Awards. The award is given to undergraduate and graduate students who, during their time at Syracuse University, have engaged in collaborative research that has the potential to make a deep and lasting impact on the greater society.
5/28/2020

Lovely weighs in on US-China trade deal targets, tensions on NPR
Professor Mary Lovely says targets for exports of farm goods, factory products, and crude oil were always going to be a stretch. And the coronavirus pandemic has made things worse. "The world has changed," Lovely says. "And clearly, China's purchases are going to be affected." Lovely was interviewed by NPR for the segment titled "U.S.-China Tensions Were Already High. Pandemic And Hong Kong Have Made Things Worse."
5/28/2020

O'Keefe talks to CSM about commercial spaceflight
This week's final test of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft aims to kick off NASA’s new commercial crew program, in which private companies become the space agency’s ferry service. "It’s an important inflection point, if you will, of now seeing the opportunity for commercial transportation of humans into space," says University Professor Sean O’Keefe. "This is much akin to the transition when the first civil aviation aircraft took off decades ago after many decades of it being exclusively a public endeavor." O'Keefe was interviewed for the Christian Science Monitor article "Rocketing toward history: Why spaceflight still captivates America."
5/27/2020

Lambright discusses SpaceX, NASA in Associated Press article
"You can’t explain SpaceX without really understanding how NASA really kind of nurtured it in the early days," says Harry Lambright, professor of public administration and international affairs and political science. "In a way, SpaceX is kind of a child of NASA." Read more in the the Associated Press article "First commercial space taxi a pit stop on Musk's Mars quest," in which University Professor Sean O'Keefe was also quoted.
5/27/2020

Bennett discusses prejudice during NYC's cholera outbreaks in Truthout
David Bennett, professor emeritus of history, was interviewed for the Truthout article "What New York City’s Cholera Epidemics Can Teach Us in the Age of COVID-19." News about cholera breaking out among Asians on board ships from China and India en route to Europe and North America fueled stereotypes about infection, exacerbating anti-immigrant sentiment. According to Bennett, immigrants "drew hostility because of their poverty; the diseases they brought with them after the perilous ocean voyage; [and] the slum housing they were forced to live in."
5/26/2020

Hou quoted in Bloomberg article on balanced-budget loopholes
"The rules are not ironclad," says Yilin Hou, professor of public administration and international affairs. "The simple reason being that state governments must operate to provide the services demanded by citizens, however harsh the rules are." Hou was interviewed for the Bloomberg article "All the Loopholes U.S. States Have to ‘Balance’ Their Budgets."
5/26/2020

McDowell speaks to Al Jazeera about IMF bailouts due to COVID-19
"And now you're saddled with additional debt from the IMF. Then some sort of longer term plan or program is likely going to have to step in to help countries through that," says Daniel McDowell, associate professor of political science. He was interviewed by Al Jazeera for the segment "More than 90 countries request IMF bailout."
5/26/2020

Harrington Meyer discusses grandparenting during a pandemic with KHN
"All the grandparents in the country are aching" says University Professor Madonna Harrington Meyer. "Some are aching because they can't see their grandchildren — and some are aching because they can't get away from them." Harrington Meyer was interviewed for the Kaiser Health News article "Too Little Or Too Much Time With The Kids? Grandparenting Is Tough In A Pandemic."
5/26/2020

Jok discusses South Sudan's COVID-19 response in Daily Nation
"Up to this point, the country’s reaction to the pandemic has been a mixed bag of late response by the political leadership, despite early warnings by public health specialists; scepticism about the virulence of the disease, both at the level of some government officials and ordinary people, and disinformation," writes Jok Madut Jok. His article "South Sudan Covid-19 response: Sceptical, defiant and clumsy," was published in Daily Nation.
5/22/2020

Lovely quoted in SBG article on COVID-19, US manufacturing
Professor Mary Lovely believes maintaining a globalized economy is more sustainable for the countries involved than moving manufacturing to the United States unnecessarily. "There’s this idea that there’s a fixed number of jobs to go around and we need to bring them back here for people to have," she says. "That’s not exactly true." Lovely was interviewed for the Sinclair Broadcast Group article "Pandemic exposes need to bring some manufacturing back to US."
5/21/2020

Can Biden win over Sanders supporters? Reeher discusses in USA Today

Professor Grant Reeher says Biden could have a hard time getting enthusiastic support from former Sanders supporters due to his lengthy record – three decades of Senate votes and two terms in the White House as President Barack Obama's vice president. It's "not gonna rub a lot of these Bernie Sanders supporters particularly in the right way," with how Biden has portrayed his own record, he says. Read more in the USA Today article "How Joe Biden is working to win over progressive voters."

5/21/2020

Mitra recommends AEZ model for India's economy in Economic Times
In his co-authored article titled "View: How a successful 'AEZ Model' can remove India's structural bottlenecks," Devashish Mitra, Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs, explains how the use of Autonomous Economic Zones (AEZs) can be helpful in accelerating the creation of well paying jobs in India. The piece was published in the Economic Times.
5/20/2020

Reeher quoted in The Hill article on increasing polarization, COVID-19
The polarization of American life had been going on for years before Trump was even a political figure, says Professor Grant Reeher. But, "what is different now, and what gives this a sharper edge is the fact that emotions are running so high, first of all; second, that the stakes are really, really high; and third the fact that the president has made very strong statements about these things." Reeher was interviewed for The Hill article "The Memo: Virus crisis deepens dangerous divides."
5/19/2020

Gadarian research on partisanship, COVID-19 cited in LA Times, Slate
Shana Gadarian, associate professor of political science, along with Tom Pepinsky of Cornell University and Sara Goodman of UC Irvine, recently released an analysis of polling data about which Americans say they wear masks in public. They found a gap of more than 20 points along partisan lines: 75% of Democrats, but 53% of Republicans said they did. Their findings were cited in the Los Angeles Times article "Can’t mask partisanship: Coronavirus response explains why Trump can still win," and the Slate article "Let’s Weaponize Social Media Against COVID-19."
5/19/2020

Rothbart recommends a new GI Bill for COVID-19 workers in The Hill
"If we accept that we are fighting a modern-day war against a deadly and contagious enemy, then we must develop policies to help our modern-day frontline warriors the same way we helped veterans returning from war 75 years ago," writes Michah Rothbart. His article, "If we're fighting a war, then we need a new GI Bill," was published in The Hill.
5/18/2020

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