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Maxwell alums featured in WSYR-TV series Victory Over Violence
Abdul Saboor '18 BA (PSc)/’19 EMPA/CAS Conflict Resolution, was recently featured in a story by WSYR-TV as part of a series called “Victory Over Violence.” Abdul is Community Navigator at Center for New Americans. The story also includes Olive Sephuma ’12 EMPA, who is the center’s director. This refugee resettlement agency in Syracuse is part of Interfaith Works of CNY.
7/22/2019

Madonna Harrington Meyer named University Professor
Madonna Harrington Meyer, professor of sociology in the Maxwell School and Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence, was recently named a University Professor by Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly. The prestigious distinction is granted to faculty who excel in their fields and who have made extraordinary scholarly contributions as judged by their peers nationally and internationally.
7/22/2019

Lovely weighs in on slowdown of China's economic growth in AP
Mary Lovely was interviewed for the Associated Press article "China’s growth cools further as tariff war pressures mount." "President Trump is probably happy that he’s starting to tank the Chinese economy," Lovely says. "But it’s a case of ‘be careful what you wish for.’"
7/22/2019

Coplin talks about his new book with Inside Higher Ed
"Professors teach; most of them teach undergraduates. This is their path to self-redemption," according to The Happy Professor: How to Teach Undergraduates and Feel Good About It (Rowman & Littlefield). Professor Bill Coplin, the author, tells Inside Higher Ed that he wrote the book so faculty can try out things that worked for him, many of which are small and don’t take a lot of time or effort.
7/19/2019

O'Keefe discusses the space race with Yahoo Finance
Sean O'Keefe was interviewed on Yahoo Finance TV for the segment titled "The space race is heating up again, with billionaires leading the way." "We're seeing some really, really inventive entrepreneurs with grand visions that are basically just getting started to move towards that same pattern that we saw for commercial aviation that made traveling around the globe a relatively easy proposition," says O’Keefe.
7/19/2019

McCormick quoted in Washington Post article on El Chapo sentencing
Gladys McCormick was interviewed for the Washington Post article "‘El Chapo’ is contained. The drug war is not." McCormick says that while there are no longer any major drug lords to focus media or political attention on, cartels have shifted to a horizontal leadership akin to multinational corporations.
7/18/2019

New Robertson Fellows prepare to tackle international challenges
The Maxwell School is pleased to welcome three new Robertson Fellows within the 2019 – 2020 cohort of incoming public administration and international affairs graduate students. All three are pursuing dual degrees — a Master of Public Administration (MPA) and a Master of Arts in International Relations (MAIR) — to further their careers in international peace, security and development.
7/18/2019

Maxwell YALI Fellows featured in WSYR-TV segments
For the sixth consecutive year, the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University was selected as an Institute Partner for the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders and is hosting a group of Africa’s emerging public management leaders for a six-week Leadership Institute. The Fellows were featured in two WSYR-TV segments.
7/17/2019

Zoli discusses economic warfare with Iran in WAER article
"In a war, you can hurt certain areas of a country, but you usually don't grenade the entire economy. Whereas with economic warfare, you truly can," says Corri Zoli, director of research in the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism. She was interviewed for the WAER article "SU National Security Expert: "Economic Warfare" With Iran, Others Might Achieve Results."
7/17/2019

Lovely comments on widening US-China trade gap on NPR
Mary Lovely was interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered for the segment titled "Data Shows U.S. Trade Gap With China Widened During Month Of June." "I think whatever jobs are created by President Trump's war on global supply chains are going to be dwarfed by losses in the U.S. export sectors," says Lovely.
7/15/2019

50 years later: O'Keefe discusses past and future space exploration
Former NASA Administrator and University Professor Sean O'Keefe spoke with several media outlets about the July 20, 1969, landing of Apollo 11 on the moon and the possibility of future space exploration. "It is a common aspirational goal as big as what we saw in the 1960s," O’Keefe told the Gazette. "Could we see convergence around a common goal that could benight this era? Absolutely."
7/15/2019

Reeher quoted in Press-Republican article on NY, Trump's tax returns
"This represents a new escalation in the level of political polarization that we're seeing," with states taking an active role in differing with the Trump administration, said Professor Grant Reeher. He was interviewed for the Press-Republican article "New York clears way for access to Trump's state tax records."
7/11/2019

Schnell publishes study on factors associated with open governments
"Which Countries Have More Open Governments? Assessing Structural Determinants of Openness," co-authored by Sabina Schnell, was published in the American Review of Public Administration. Schnell and her co-author examined the political, administrative, and civic factors that are associated with more open governments around the world.
7/11/2019

Monmonier quoted in National Parks article on renaming landmarks
Mark Monmonier was interviewed for the National Parks magazine article "Naming Matters," which explores efforts to change place names that are deemed offensive, hurtful, or arbitrary. Monmonier, who wrote a book about controversial place names, says "With a name that has been around for quite some time, the likelihood of getting it changed is not that great."
7/9/2019

Boroujerdi quoted in National Interest article on Iran's IRGC
"Before the war the IRGC [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] militiamen were nothing more than bodyguards to the clerics," says Professor Mehrzad Boroujerdi. "Their performance in the war gave them a seat at the proverbial power table." Boroujerdi was interviewed for the National Interest article "Iran's Most Powerful Weapon Against America: Meet the IRGC."
7/8/2019

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