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Lovely discusses trade war, tariffs on Mexico with AFP, Bloomberg, NYT
"This is really going to hurt American businesses who use Mexico to reduce their costs and stay competitive," Mary Lovely told Bloomberg after President Trump announced that all products from Mexico will be hit with 25 percent tariffs. Lovely spoke with Agence France-Presse, Bloomberg, and the New York Times about the latest on Trump's tariffs on Mexico and China.
6/3/2019

Reeher comments on crowded Democratic 2020 debate stage in TIME
"With 10 people on a stage, you can’t really do much that’s meaningful," says Professor Grant Reeher. "They may end up competing with each other on … who has the best zinger." Reeher was interviewed for the TIME article "How the 2016 Debates Are Still Haunting Democrats."
6/3/2019

Professorship to focus on environmental sustainability and finance
A major gift from Kenneth A. Pontarelli ’92 BS (Econ) and his wife, Tracey Pontarelli, will fund a new professorship focused on research and teaching in the area of environmental sustainability and finance, based in the Maxwell School.
6/3/2019

Scruggs Scholarship will benefit current undergrads
A new scholarship fund, honoring former history professor Otey Scruggs and his widow, Barbara, will reward current undergraduates for their accomplishments and promise at Syracuse University and the Maxwell School. The Otey and Barbara Scruggs Maxwell School Scholarship is being created with a $280,000 gift commitment from Otey and Barbara Scruggs’s son, Jeffrey M. Scruggs, and his wife, Robbin E. Mitchell.
5/30/2019

Winders discusses new Autonomous Systems Policy Institute on WAER
Jamie Winders was interviewed on WAER for the segment titled "SU's Autonomous Systems Policy Institute Aims To Keep Technology From Outpacing Policy." "What we want to do is create a space or context in which we can start to bring together these different parties across the technological development, across the policy and regulatory developments," says Winders.
5/30/2019

Lovely weighs in on redirecting production away from China in CSM
Already production of shoes, apparel, toys, and other "footloose" industries has been shifting from China to Vietnam and other countries, partly due to rising wages in China, says Mary Lovely. She was interviewed for the Christian Science Monitor article "Trade war roils US, China, but it means jobs for rest of Asia."
5/30/2019

Ma quoted in SCMP article on Chinese students in US, visa challenges
Yingyi Ma, associate professor of sociology, was quoted in the South China Morning Post article "Chinese studying in US become ‘political cannon fodder’ as visa process tightens amid feud." "Many students are scared away already by the new policies even before going through the visa hurdles," says Ma.
5/24/2019

Mitra discusses challenges facing India's prime minister in NY Times
Devashish Mitra says that job creation has been slow in India compared with the growth in the workforce, labor reforms have made halting progress and difficulties in acquiring land have hindered growth in manufacturing and construction of infrastructure. Mitra was quoted in the New York Times article "India's Modi Facing Urgent Economic Challenges After Win."
5/24/2019

Kriesberg featured in Eurasia.Expert piece on Trump, Russia, tariffs
Louis Kriesburg, professor emeritus of sociology, was interviewed for the Eurasia.Expert article "Expert: After Trump's election Europeans and many Americans are doing what is needed themselves." Kriesberg discusses the prospects of the US striking a nuclear deal with Russia and China and the reasons why the US imposes tariffs on European goods.
5/22/2019

Research by Emily Thorson cited in Forbes article on misinformation
Emily Thorson's research on "belief echoes," which she defines as "effects on attitudes that persist even when you know that a piece of information is false," was featured in the Forbes article "Science Shows How the Los Angeles Lakers Should Be Responding to Magic Johnson's Comments."
5/22/2019

Lovely explains how the trade war hurts Americans in CNN article
"By now, it is likely no surprise to American families that tariffs raise the cost of living," writes Mary Lovely. "Walmart said last week that new import duties would lead to higher prices on a wide variety of consumer goods newly targeted by the latest promised round of tariffs." Lovely's article "The US-China trade war hurts American families" was published by CNN.
5/21/2019

Inaugural online EMPA grads celebrate at Convocation
Twenty-two members of Maxwell’s online Executive Master of Public Administration program (EMPA) participated in the 2019 Graduate Convocation. They are among the first graduates of the School’s online EMPA program, launched in July 2017 to advance the careers of experienced public service professionals.
5/21/2019

Baker article on cybersecurity published in the ABA Journal
"Cybersecurity is necessarily an issue that crosses international boundaries, raising complex questions of sovereignty, jurisdiction, law and policy," writes the Hon. James E. Baker. His article "Between Hacks and Hostilities: Are the US government and private sector ready for persistent engagement?" was published in the ABA Journal.
5/16/2019

Monnat study on opioid misuse initiation published in JAD
A new study "Opioid misuse initiation: Implications for intervention," co-authored by Shannon Monnat and published in the Journal of Addictive Diseases, may help inform new approaches to preventing opioid abuse by identifying those at a higher risk of misusing the drugs for the first time.
5/15/2019

Lovely speaks with AP, NPR, NY Times about the US-China trade war
"It looks like there was a level of specificity that China wasn’t willing to accept and a level of ambiguity that the Trump administration wasn’t willing to accept," Mary Lovely told the New York Times. Lovely spoke to several media outlets about the latest in the US-China trade war.
5/15/2019

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