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Maxwell’s Public Safety Internship Opens Doors—and Widens Perspectives

Cort Ruddy

The hands-on program places students inside the criminal justice system and changes how they see it.

April 9, 2026

Maxwell Fireside Chat Examines AI’s Role in Government and Higher Education

Jessica Youngman

New York State Office of General Services Commissioner Jeanette Moy and Syracuse University Chief Digital Officer Jeff Rubin joined Dean David M. Van Slyke to discuss AI adoption, workforce impact and the future of digital transformation.

April 2, 2026

Rising Waters, Falling Taxes: The Impact of Hurricane Sandy on Property Tax Assessments in NYC

Wei Guo, Qing Miao, Yusun Kim, Yilin Hou

Co-authored by Yilin Hou, professor of public administration and international affairs, the study was published in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.

February 26, 2026

Turning Crisis Into Community: Policy Studies Alumna Feeds Millions

Jaclinn Tanney’s food enterprise has donated 4 million meals while creating opportunity for its largely immigrant workforce.

February 19, 2026

Gap Analysis in Therapeutic Services for Birthing Individuals with Perinatal Mental Health Disorders

Md Koushik Ahmed, Robert H. Keefe, Brittany Kmush, Emily Shuman, Kathleen Walker, Robert A. Rubinstein, Robert Silverman, Andrea Shaw, Sandra D. Lane

Published in Social Work in Public Health, the article was co-authored by Robert Rubinstein, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; Sanda Lane, professor emerita of public health; and Brittany Kmush, associate professor of public health.

February 5, 2026

Himmelreich Talks to Syracuse.com About the AI Policy Minor and AI in Teaching

“AI is going to have significant social impact. This will create policy challenges that require an understanding of the technology as well as the policy analysis skills,” says Johannes Himmelreich, associate professor of public administration and international affairs.
January 30, 2026

Walking the Land With Property Owners

Tom A Langen, Catherine Benson, Rick Welsh

The article, written by Professor of Sociology Rick Welsh, was published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

January 20, 2026

Heflin Discusses Food Insecurity on WCNY’S ‘CONNECT NY’

“I think it's important to note that while poverty is a really significant risk factor for food insecurity, there are more people that live above the poverty line, actually, who are food insecure. It is the working poor. It's people that actually earn too much to potentially qualify for SNAP,” says Colleen Heflin, professor of public administration and international affairs. 

January 9, 2026

Himmelreich Talks to Central Current About Flock Safety Keeping Syracuse Drivers’ ‘Anonymized’ Data

“The images that these cameras capture have a lot of information. Even when you anonymize them by throwing away metadata, you can figure out where the image was taken,” says Johannes Himmelreich, associate professor of public administration and international affairs. “After all, you still see the street and everything around the car. So, I doubt that the anonymization is robust.” 

December 30, 2025

Analyzing the Stability of Gun Violence Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Syracuse, New York

Peng Gao, Sarah E. Van Horne, David A. Larsen, Robert A. Rubinstein, Sandra D. Lane

The article, co-written by Maxwell professors Peng Gao, David Larsen, Robert Rubinstein and Sandra Lane, was published in the International Journal of Health Geographics.

December 18, 2025

Reeher Shares Thoughts on Trump and Mamdani Meeting with AFP, LiveNOW from FOX

Ahead of the meeting between incoming New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani and Donald Trump, Grant Reeher, professor of political science, tells Agence France Presse: “Look for the outcome of that meeting to be something to the effect of, ‘I think I can work with (him)—but we will see how it goes and I’m hopeful—we both want the city to succeed’.”  

November 21, 2025

Reeher Speaks With AFP, The Guardian, The Hill and Newsweek About Mamdani’s Win in NYC

“Mamdani’s got to get his ideas realized in policy, and New York is notoriously difficult to govern. It’s arguably the second hardest political job in the United States, after the president. So whatever he’s able to accomplish, it won’t be easy,” says Grant Reeher, professor of political science.

November 5, 2025

Summit Examines Advances and Applications in Wastewater Surveillance

The event was co-sponsored by the state Department of Health and coordinated by Professor David Larsen.

October 31, 2025

At 27, Maxwell Alumna Is Long Island’s Youngest Village Clerk

Katherine Hannon ’20 B.A. (PSc) got started as an intern assisting the mayor with special projects.  

October 1, 2025

What Municipalities Really Want: Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence

Nicholas Croce & Saba Siddiki

This September 2025 Research to Practice Brief summarizes "What Municipalities Really Want: Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence among New York State Municipal Leaders," co-authored by Nicholas Croce (Syracuse University) & Saba Siddiki (Syracuse University).

September 26, 2025

Maxwell Partners With VA Medical Center, Instacart to Bring Healthy Food to Local Veterans

With a grant-funded study, Colleen Heflin and the Maxwell X Lab are hoping to determine whether greater access to nutritious food leads to health improvements over time.

September 4, 2025

Larsen Cited in New York Times Article on Rising COVID Cases in New York City

The New York State Wastewater Surveillance Network tracks the spread of COVID by detecting the virus in wastewater. David Larsen, professor and chair of public health and lead epidemiologist for the network, says COVID levels in the city’s wastewater were below average. 

September 3, 2025

How Health Departments Use Wastewater Surveillance Data for Public Health Planning, Intervention

Shailla Raymond, Mila Neyra, Dustin T. Hill, Ainsley Maclachlan, Jordan McGuire, Matthew Mahaney, Nicole Pulido, Bhavneet Walia, Nan Yang, Yifan Zhu, Yiquan Zhou, David A. Larsen

The article, co-authored by public health professors David Larsen and Bhavneet Walia along with Nicole Pulido, a research associate in the Public Health Department, was published in BMC Public Health.

August 25, 2025

Lessons Learned From Upstream Wastewater Sampling in Response to Poliovirus in New York State

Alejandro Godinez, Mohammed Alazawi, Milagros Neyra, Brianna Hanson, Dana Neigel, Kirsten St. George, Dan Lang, David A. Larsen

Co-authored by Professor of Public Health David Larsen and MPH alum Alejandro Godinez, the article was published in Science of The Total Environment.

August 15, 2025

Gadarian Quoted in Fortune Article on Zohran Mamdani and Gen Z

“We’re not seeing young people go live on communes,” says Shana Gadarian, Merle Goldberg Fabian Professor of Excellence in Citizenship and Critical Thinking. “They’re working at banks, they’re starting gig economies, they’re working in high tech. If that’s not capitalism, I’m not clear what would be.”

July 30, 2025

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