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MPH Student Says Hospital Experience Has Been ‘A Great Fit With My Interests’

Shelby Fenton has taken advantage of hands-on learning opportunities, including an Applied Learning Experience with SUNY Upstate University Hospital. 

December 4, 2025

Mitra Quoted in LA Times Article on Costco Suing the Trump Administration to Reclaim Tariff Payments

“Whether Costco is successful through its lawsuit in getting compensated for the tariffs that it has already paid on its imports really depends on the Supreme Court’s decision on whether the president has the legal authority to impose tariffs,” says Devashish Mitra, professor of economics.

December 3, 2025

Jennifer Karas Montez Named President of IAPHS

The association works to improve population health by building collaboration among scholars, sharing information and convening events. 

December 3, 2025

Gadarian Weighs In on Trump’s Declining Approval Rating Among Parents in Newsweek Article

“The six week long shutdown had to do with all of these issues about healthcare, SNAP funding, the general cost of living, things that really affect American families and it was very clear that the administration was not particularly responsive to the issues that they even ran on in 2024,” says Shana Gadarian, professor of political science.
December 2, 2025

Ben Hancock Named to New Position as Senior Director of Alumni Engagement and Career Services

The position was created to align the work of the alumni office and the Palmer Career Center, broadening engagement across alumni careers and expanding pathways for students and recent graduates.

December 2, 2025

More Girls in the Classroom Improves Adolescent Mental Health

Monica Deza and Maria Zhu
What role does the school environment play in shaping adolescent mental health? This brief examines how the mix of boys and girls in a classroom affects student mental health and wellbeing. The authors find that classrooms with more girls have better mental health outcomes for both boys and girls. 
December 2, 2025

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Taylor Discusses the Talks Between Top US Officials and Ukrainian Delegation on LiveNOW from FOX

“I think the fundamental problem remains, that Vladimir Putin wants to subjugate and control Ukraine and Ukraine wants to stay independent and sovereign and make its own political choices. So it's really hard to see a meaningful deal coming out of this,” says Brian Taylor, director of the Moynihan Insititute of Global Affairs. 

December 1, 2025

Bernard Appiah Receives K. Everett M. Rogers Award for Advancing Public Health Communication

The annual award honors a pioneering communications theorist.

December 1, 2025

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Monnat Featured in Newsweek Article on Rural America’s Optimism About the Country’s Future

Rural communities have “leaned increasingly conservative” for several decades, and support for Trump is “especially strong” among these communities, which could mean they feel the country's leadership reflects their priorities, particularly on cultural and social issues, says Shannon Monnat, Lerner Chair in Public Health Promotion and Population Health.

November 26, 2025

Jiahuan Lu Weighs In on Challenges facing US-Based Charities in WalletHub Article

“As government—especially federal—support recedes, competition for philanthropic dollars and other revenue sources is likely to intensify significantly,” says Jiahuan Lu, associate professor of public administration and international affairs.

November 26, 2025

Estevez-Abe Speaks to Agence France Presse About Japan’s $135-Billion Stimulus Package

“We are already seeing the negative reactions from the market... Further depreciation of the yen will hit ordinary Japanese households with higher prices,” says Margarita Estevez-Abe, associate professor of political science.

November 26, 2025

Internship Offers Up-Close View of Culture, History and Engagement

Elise Christopher ’25 B.A. (Anth) says she was honored to support work to uplift diaspora cultures through her summer internship with the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

November 25, 2025

Public Health Alumnus Says Syracuse Provided ‘A Road Map to Continue to Learn’

Alejandro Parra took advantage of many experiential learning opportunities, the most recent of which was an internship with the Council of Europe’s Biomedical Division in the spring of 2025.

November 24, 2025

Partisan Inequality in Property Tax Assessment

Ankit Kalda, Vikas Soni and Qianfan Wu
This report, by Ankit Kalda, documents a political partisanship-based assessment gap that imposes a disproportionate fiscal burden on political minorities.
November 21, 2025

Koch’s Insights Featured in Channel News Asia Story on Mongolia’s Plan to Move its Capital City

Mongolia’s leaders plan to move the nation’s capital from increasingly congested Ulaanbaatar to the culturally-significant yet undeveloped area called Kharkhorum. But Natalie Koch, professor of geography and the environment, says, “Buildings on a blank slate, it's a lovely image, but it doesn't solve any of those bigger structural issues in a state."

November 21, 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

Monarch Talks to Marketplace About Import Prices and Inflation

Import prices directly affect consumers, said Ryan Monarch, associate professor of economics. “Ten percent of all their expenditures are on imported products. And so sometimes import prices will be something that is moving overall inflation numbers around,” he told Marketplace.

November 20, 2025

Yingyi Ma Speaks with South China Morning Post on Drop in Number of Chinese Students in the US

Yingyi Ma, professor of sociology, said several factors could be behind the trend showing a drop in the number of Chinese students studying in the U.S., beyond the anxiety over changes in U.S. policies, including the rise of “intra-Asia migration” with more students studying in Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore.

November 20, 2025

Student Alienation in Schools Goes Beyond Low Achievement

Sean J. Drake and Jeffrey Guhin
This brief summarizes findings from a study drawing on over two years of ethnographic fieldwork in two different high schools in Los Angeles, California. The authors identify four types of alienation students experience: feeling like they don't belong, being in schools that can't support their goals, pursuing futures schools don't recognize, and succeeding in someone else's story.
November 19, 2025

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Mitra Quoted in Wall Street Journal Article on Trump’s Trade War, Consumer Spending Habits

“Whether or not people will keep buying as much stuff is very hard to predict,” says Devashish Mitra, professor of economics. “Chinese goods might still be relatively cheaper than the alternatives.”

November 18, 2025
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