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Virtual Reality, Real Insight: VR Shows Economics Class the Realities of Developing Economies
Students in Andrew Jonelis’ Economics of Emerging Markets course have received an up-close view of markets thousands of miles away thanks to the Digital Scholarship Space.
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Maxwell Students Research Impact of Redlining as 2024-26 Lender Fellows
Tommy DaSilva, Darla Hobbs, Jamea Candy Johnson and Sabrina Lussier are exploring housing as a critical determinant of social and health inequities under the guidance of Miriam Mutambudzi.
Pete Buttigieg Driven by ‘Propulsion’—Not ‘Despondency’
The former U.S. Secretary of Transportation joined Professor Jay Golden for a capacity event that covered environmental issues, leadership, democracy and more.
Maxwell X Lab Receives Journal’s Best Paper Award for Chicago Study
The Journal of Behavioral Public Administration honored the researchers for their paper detailing findings in a study of at-home lead testing kit return rates.
See related: Alumni Experience, Awards & Honors, Government, Grant Awards, Infrastructure, Research Methods
Bhan Speaks With rabble.ca About Jammu and Kashmir’s Chenab Bridge
In the rush to develop Kashmir, Professor of Anthropology Mona Bhan explains, the government and developers lost sight of the region’s geological stability. In an active seismic zone with increasing investment into what she calls “an infrastructure dump”, the colonization of Kashmir is actually adding geological pressure onto an already volatile region.
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Saving the “Lungs of the City”: Emerging Civic Action in Urban Environmental Policy
Co-authored by Associate Professor of Sociology Selina Gallo-Cruz, the article was published in Local Environment.
See related: Environment, Europe, Government, Infrastructure, United States, Urban Issues
Monnat Cited in Forbes Article on Rural Health
According to Professor of Sociology Shannon Monnat, “The rural U.S. is sick, poor, and losing population. And the health and longevity gap between rural and urban America is growing wider every year.”
See related: Education, Food Security, Infrastructure, Labor, Longevity, Rural Issues, United States
Bhan Contributes to Channel 4 News Piece on India’s Grip on Kashmir
“I see them [India's projects] as symbols of Indian prescence or public proclamation of their capacity to now settle Kashmiri land, to occupy it when they can,” says Mona Bhan, Ford-Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies.
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Reeher Speaks With WXXI News About Meeting Between President Trump and NY Gov. Hochul
“She's playing the game a little bit differently—the resistance game,” says Grant Reeher, professor of political science. “She doesn't want to be seen to be an ally of Donald Trump and his administration,” he says. “She also has to worry about her left flank and being seen as too liberal.”
See related: Energy, Federal, Infrastructure, New York State, State & Local, Tariffs, U.S. Immigration
Monarch Speaks With Newsweek About US tariffs and the Housing Market
Ryan Monarch, assistant professor of economics, says that it is “clear” tariffs on products like steel and aluminum will increase the cost of building housing and developments and, therefore, drive up the prices of housing in the U.S.
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Patchy Internalization: Transnational Migration and Local Buildings in the Bosnian Borderland
“Patchy Internalization: Transnational Migration and Local Buildings in the Bosnian Borderland,” authored by Associate Professor of Anthropology Azra Hromadžić, was published in Society.
See related: Europe, Infrastructure, Migration
Examining Inequities: Miriam Mutambudzi
It has been almost two decades since the start of the Great Recession, but that historic economic crisis is still having an impact on older adults. In this Q&A, Miriam Mutambudzi, assistant professor of public health, explains her most recent study on the effect of the Great Recession on older adults
See related: Health and Identity, Health Equity, Housing, Inequality, Infrastructure, Race & Ethnicity
Driving Under the Influence of Allergies: The Effect of Seasonal Pollen on Traffic Fatalities
In this study, Associate Professor of Economics Monica Deza and her co-author find evidence that a prevalent and transitory exogenous health-shock, namely pollen allergies, increases traffic fatalities. Published in the Journal of Health Economics.
See related: Infrastructure, United States, Urban Issues
Emerging Regulation of GHG Emissions in the Transportation-for-Hire Industry
Assistant Teaching Professor of Policy Studies Austin Zwick and alumna Karina Freeland '23 B.A. (PSt). investigate what conditions are needed for local government to take on leadership and policy innovation in environmental regulation. Published in Sustainability.
Zwick Speaks with Nature Cities About the City of Syracuse’s Smart City Projects
Despite its size, Syracuse asserts “a larger dreaming of possibilities, punching above their weight, acting like a bigger city,” says Austin Zwick, associate teaching professor of policy studies. “[There's been] a real alignment and agreement between multiple levels of government...for the last 10 years or so,” he says.
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Mitra Speaks with Ideas of India Podcast on Economic Growth in India and Related Challenges
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New Book by Hromadžić, ‘Riverine Citizenship,’ Featured in Novosti Article
“The 2015 protest against the construction of a mini hydropower plant on the Una River in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina was the moment when the Una become a key political word,” says Azra Hromadžić, associate professor of anthropology and author of “Riverine Citizenship” (CEU Press, 2024).
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Rubinstein Discusses Lead Poisoning in Onondaga County on WCNY’s CONNECT NY
“We can show the overlapping of areas of lead poisoning with poor educational performance, with teen pregnancy, with entry into the criminal justice system, and so on. So there's a whole set of ramifications,” says Robert Rubinstein, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology.
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Mitra Piece on India's Development Policy Challenge Published by the 1991 Project
“While it [India] has acquired some economic and political heft in global affairs on account of its large economy, it must rapidly raise the economic fortunes of the average Indian. Its current demographic situation makes this necessary. It is crucial that the country find productive employment for its young and rapidly expanding labor force in a way that fulfills the aspirations of these new workers,” writes Devashish Mitra, professor of economics.
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Huber Quoted in Cronkite News Article on the Paris Olympics as a Blueprint of Sustainability
Matthew Huber, professor of geography and the environment, highlights the infrastructural advantage France has to promote sustainability. “France is known for having one of the most decarbonized electric grids in the world because they have about 70% of their electricity coming from nuclear power, which is zero carbon energy,” Huber says.
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