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Center for Disability Resources empowers students, changes perceptions

Miguel Pica ’22 knows the important work the Center for Disability Resources (CDR) does to help students with disabilities meet their academic goals. He has been working with an access counselor at the center since he came to campus in 2019—and has found his personal success with their efforts.
October 12, 2020

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Humphrey Fellow credits LaunchPad for entrepreneurial experience

Maxim Glagolev, a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, started Geeklama, an online coding school that makes quality live coding lessons available to all kids. The Blackstone LaunchPad helped connect him with U.S. experts in specialized areas such as incorporation and finance as Geeklama launched in this country.

September 14, 2020

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Remote Humphrey project supports Congressional voting by proxy

Marco Konopacki was looking forward to closing out his Humphrey Fellowship year working in House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer’s Washington, D.C., office. But the novel coronavirus pandemic upended his plans, and he flew home to Brazil. There he, like the rest of the Maxwell School’s 2019 cohort, conducted his professional affiliation remotely.
September 14, 2020

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In Athenian Oath, EMPA grad hears ‘call to action for democracy'

Christopher Cartwright ’90 takes to heart the Athenian Oath’s call to “leave things better than we find them.” Cartwright, who earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and journalism and has worked in federal financial management with the U.S. Department of Commerce for 30 years, led the recitation of the Oath at this spring’s graduate convocation hosted by the Department of Public Administration and International Affairs.
August 28, 2020

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Capstone projects aim to connect theory to practice

Seema Kumar came to the Maxwell School to pursue an Executive Master of Public Administration (EMPA.) Kumar, deputy secretary at the Home Department, Jaipur, the capital of the Indian state Rajasthan, hoped her executive education program would help her improve government operations and assess an e-government initiative.
August 24, 2020

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Maxwell welcomes four Robertson Fellows as part of new MPA/MAIR class

All Robertson fellows at Maxwell receive funding for two years of study, allowing them to pursue one of the joint degrees offered through Public Administration and International Affairs; the grants cover not only full tuition, but a living stipend, health insurance, and assistance in finding a summer internship. All four of this year’s incoming fellows will pursue the joint M.P.A./M.A.I.R. degree.

August 10, 2020

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In COVID crisis, Humphrey fellow sees opportunity for educators

June 8, 2020

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Year One

The Scruggs Scholarship is an example of how Maxwell (and Syracuse University) are working hard to make sure that successful freshmen continue.

June 1, 2020

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Online EMPA experience converges with pandemic response

The World Health Organization declared the rapidly spreading coronavirus outbreak a pandemic on March 11, jolting Natalie Aguilera into plans for the Native American Health Center in Oakland, California, to prepare and respond. A few weeks later, as the global health crisis was spiraling across the United States, Aguilera started the Maxwell School’s Online Executive MPA program
May 20, 2020

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Senior Kara Foley wins top undergraduate research prize

Kara Foley, a senior majoring in international relations and policy studies, won the Maxwell School’s annual Ben and Marcia Baldanza Prize for top undergraduate research paper, as part of the School’s annual efforts to recognize exemplary undergraduate research. 
May 13, 2020

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Maxwell students receive Fulbright teaching and research grants

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program funds a number of different awards that include English teaching assistantships (ETA) and study/research grants in over 140 countries.

April 29, 2020

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Military-connected student of the month: Executive Education student Chris Giglio

For many, joining the military is as much a matter of family tradition as it is a commitment to serve. For Syracuse graduate student and third-generation Naval officer Chris Giglio, it was also a matter of building on a personal history.
April 15, 2020

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Humphrey Fellows workshop, Coronavirus serves as case study

Humphrey Fellows at a recent weeklong seminar discussed the coronavirus in the context of crisis management planning. “Crises are almost the perfect storm for challenges in good governance,” workshop leader and Maxwell School faculty affiliate Bruce W. Dayton said. “During a crisis you are under high stress. Everyone is paying attention. You have very short time to make decisions and you’re confronted with uncertainty. All of those are interconnected.”
March 9, 2020

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Amid impeachment trial, UPA program provides look at US politics

About 20 public policy graduate students from the Universidad Panamericana’s (UPA) Mexico City campus arrived in Washington, D.C., in the middle of the U.S. Senate’s impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. “They had lots of questions, from the politics of impeachment, to the mechanics, to what it said about the structure of U.S. political institutions,” says Grant Reeher, professor of political science and director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute.

February 17, 2020

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Mandela Washington Fellows introduced to SU Libraries

Last summer, a group of young leaders from Sub-Saharan Africa made their way to the Syracuse University campus as part of the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, the flagship program of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI). The program is funded by the U.S. Department of State and empowers young leaders through academic coursework, leadership training, and networking across higher education institutions and communities across the United States.
February 17, 2020

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Student Spotlight: Technology Wrapped in Tradition

Student entrepreneurs Nikita Chatterjee and Brianna Howard seek to reduce waterborne illnesses in India through an innovative filtration system that incorporates a customary practice.
January 17, 2020

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Second Executive Education program fuels Alna Dall’s passion for change in Africa

When activists launched the #MeTooNamibia movement in spring 2019, Alna Dall was front and center. The movement, spearheaded by young women with the help of the office of the First Lady of Namibia, Monica Geingos, was supported by Namibia’s Coalition Against Gender-Based Violence. Dall, a former television journalist and 2017 Mandela Washington Fellow at the Maxwell School helped create the coalition in 2013.
January 10, 2020

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New Knowledge

Tapping into Maxwell’s scholarly distinction, undergraduates now have almost limitless opportunities for research and deeper study.
December 23, 2019

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Summer Plans

Funding from Jon Ben Snow Foundation helps CCE students advance their Action Plans during the months between the semesters.
December 23, 2019

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December graduates celebrate new skills, strong relationships

Eleven Executive Education students from seven countries celebrated their December completion of Maxwell graduate degrees or certificate programs. The graduates are midcareer professionals who shared their international perspectives, learned from each other and Maxwell faculty, eager to return to their native countries to implement new skills.
December 19, 2019

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