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Maxwell faculty secure RWJF grant to study preemption effect on health
Doug Wolf, Shannon Monnat, and Jennifer Karas Montez were awarded a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Policies for Action Pogram for their project titled "Local Initiatives, State Preemption, and Public Health." The team will explore pre-emption’s effect on geographic inequities in health, focusing on labor and environmental policies.

Gadarian weighs in on Trump's recall of federal employees in US News
"What this is doing is to try and get the public to not notice, to smooth over some of the bumps we'll see if the shutdown continues much longer,"says Shana Gadarian, associate professor of political science. Gadarian was interviewed for the U.S. News & World Report article "Faced With Bad Optics, Trump Recalls Workers."

O'Keefe op-ed on journey of space exploration published in The Hill
In his op-ed titled "Dawn of a new space race?" Sean O'Keefe discusses the success of China’s Chang’e-4 mission to land on the far side of the moon. According to O'Keefe, the significance of the mission's success "is both an immediate operational benefit and a longer-term scientific contribution."

New edition of Maxwell Perspective reports on Minnowbrook conference
The new, Winter 2019 issue of Maxwell's magazine for alumni, students, faculty, staff, and other friends — Maxwell Perspective — leads with a report on the 50th anniversary version of the Minnowbrook Conference on public administration, which was held in August.

McDowell paper on China's bilateral swap agreements published
"The (Ineffective) Financial Statecraft of China's Bilateral Swap Agreements," written by Daniel McDowell, was published in Development and Change as part of a special issue titled, "Beyond Bretton Woods: Complementarity and Competition in the International Economic Order"

Van Slyke op-ed on impact of government shutdown published in The Hill
"If government shutdowns continue to be a strategy arrow in the quiver of elected leaders, then we’ll see more of the best, brightest and most public service-minded graduates continue to pursue leadership opportunities outside of the federal government," writes Dean David Van Slyke. His op-ed "Politicians fail to see shutdown's long-term fallout: Brain drain" was published in The Hill.

Lovely quoted in Christian Science Monitor article on US-China trade
"Both sides are finding out that trade wars are painful," says Mary Lovely in the Christian Science Monitor article "US-China trade: How dose of reality is pushing both sides to deal." "The Chinese economy is slowing…. Foreign investment into the US is down, and there is concern about domestic investment moving forward."

Dickey discusses federal government shutdown in Washington Post
In his op-ed titled "How can the government expect people to work without pay indefinitely?" Todd Dickey, assistant professor of public administration and international affairs, examines how the Antideficiency Act runs on a collision course with a core employment law, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The article was published in the Washington Post.

Monnat publishes study on geographic variation in drug mortality rates
"The contributions of socioeconomic and opioid supply factors to U.S. drug mortality rates: Urban-rural and within-rural differences," written by Shannon Monnat, associate professor of sociology and Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion, was published in the Journal of Rural Studies.

PhD student Uğur Altundal cited in Newsweek article on passports
Research by Uğur Altundal, a PhD student in political science at the Maxwell School, was cited in the Newsweek article "Ranked: The World's Least Powerful Passports in 2019." "Despite the important progress made in overall global mobility," Altundal and co-author Omer Zarpli write, "there remains a significant ‘global mobility divide’, with some passports much more powerful than others."

Elizabeth Cohen quoted in PolitiFact article on ICE arrests for murder
Elizabeth Cohen helps PolitiFact debunk a Facebook post that claims that in 2017, ICE arrested 2,000 undocumented immigrants for murder. The 2,028 figure "does not refer to 2,028 suspected or convicted criminals," says Cohen. "It refers to how many times a conviction or suspicion was the reason for arrest. If one person was suspected of five separate crimes, that would contribute five separate times to the overall tally in that table."

Karas Montez study on educational disparities, mortality published
A new study co-authored by Jennifer Karas Montez was published in Demography. The study, "Educational Disparities in Adult Mortality Across U.S. States: How Do They Differ, and Have They Changed Since the Mid-1980s?," expands knowledge about educational disparities and their growth by examining them at the U.S. state level.

Taylor weighs in on Whelan spy case on Australia's ABC radio
Brian Taylor was interviewed on Australia's ABC radio regarding the detention of former US Marine Paul Whelan in Russia. "At the moment I would lean towards an explanation that has much more to do with what's going on in terms of the FSB [Federal Security Service] . . . rather than some massive plot organized by the Russian government."

Lovely discusses economy, trade war with Bloomberg, NPR, Wash Post
Mary Lovely recently spoke with Bloomberg, NPR, and the Washington Post about the U.S. economy and the trade dispute between the U.S. and China.

Zoli analyzes immigration debate on WAER
Corri Zoli, research assistant professor of political science, was interviewed on WAER for the segment "SU National Security Researcher Takes Fact-Based Approach to Charged Immigration Debate." Zoli says the political dynamics on both sides are counter-productive to arriving at a more permanent solution for the southern border.

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