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Alumna’s $1.2M Gift Endows Maxwell Scholarships for Graduate Students

Eileen Korey

The gift honors Nancy Mattison’s international career in healthcare policy and will prioritize Maxwell students studying international relations.

September 2, 2026

Taylor Speaks With War & Politics 24 About the Russia-Ukraine War

“I think Putin's strategy is unlikely to work and unlikely to change the basic trajectory of the war, which is still that his strategic objectives that he set out at the very beginning of the invasion, which is basically to control Ukraine will not be achieved. And he's only made the Ukrainian population more resistant to any kind of submission to Russian political domination,” says Brian Taylor, director of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs.

September 1, 2026

Conceptualizing Moral Migration

Lauren Woodard

The article, authored by Lauren Woodard, assistant professor of anthropology, was published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

August 31, 2026

See related: Migration, Russia, United States

The Newest Federalism and Population Health

Jennifer Karas Montez, Jacob M. Grumbach

Co-authored by University Professor Jennifer Karas Montez, the article was published in The Milbank Quarterly.

August 31, 2026

Tracing the Religious Life Course in an American Baby-Boom Cohort

Merril Silverstein, Woosang Hwang, Narges Hadi, Seonhwa Lee, Maria Teresa Brown

The article, co-authored by Professor of Sociology Merril Silverstein, was published in Religions.

August 31, 2026

Primary Nesting Season Designations on Conservation Reserve Program Lands

Tom A. Langen, Margaret A. Voss, Dea L. Closson, Cooper P. Olds, Sean G. Jackson, Rick Welsh

Co-authored by Professor of Sociology Rick Welsh, the article was published in Conservation Science and Practice.

August 31, 2026

New Faculty Fellowship Honors a Legacy of Service and Civic Engagement

Jessica Youngman

Maxwell political scientist Emily Thorson has been named the inaugural Fortunato Priore Endowed Faculty Fellow in Civic Engagement, an appointment made possible by an alumnus’ estate gift.

August 31, 2026

Monarch Discusses the Escalating Trade War Between the US and Canada With Spectrum News and WGRZ

“You’re going to have businesses on both sides of the border that are dealing with higher costs and more uncertainty, both of which are not sort of conducive to good business and to providing products to consumers at their sort of most efficient prices,” says Ryan Monarch, associate professor of economics.

August 28, 2026

As AI Reshapes Aging, Access Will Determine Who Benefits

Haowei Wang
AI is reshaping how we prevent, diagnose, and care for aging-related disease. Lerner Center Research Affiliate Haowei Wang explores whether its benefits will reach everyone, or leave older adults further behind.
August 27, 2026

The New Yorker Reviews Morgan’s ‘The Rise and Fall of American Europe’

The originality of Associate Professor of Political Science Glyn Morgan’s book “lies in its claim that European unification—first the European Coal and Steel Community, in 1951, then the European Economic Community, in 1957, and finally the European Union, in 1993—was more an American creation than a European one. Postwar Europe, he argues, was made in America’s image,” says reviewer Ian Buruma.

August 27, 2026

MPA Alumnus Is Changing Lives, One Home at a Time

Jessica Youngman

Andrew Lunetta found his focus at the Maxwell School—now he’s a ‘CNN Hero’ building homes for people who need them most.

August 26, 2026

Do Nonprofit Ratings Help Donors Make Better Decisions?

Ashraf Haque

This brief describes how donors respond to GuideStar's transparency seal ratings and what that means for nonprofit accountability. The author finds that even ratings not tied to verified performance significantly influence giving, with platinum-rated nonprofits receiving 34% more in donations than unrated ones, and that donors do not penalize poorly performing nonprofits that hold ratings.

August 26, 2026

What Fracking Taught Planners That Data Center Communities Need to Learn

Austin Zwick

The article, authored by Associate Teaching Professor of Policy Studies Austin Zwick, was published in the Journal of the American Planning Association.

August 25, 2026

The Mundlak Estimator in a Panel Data Model with Serially Correlated Error Component Disturbances

Badi H. Baltagi and Long Liu
This working paper, led by Badi H. Baltagi, shows that the classic Mundlak (1978) result where the random effects estimator reduces to the fixed effects estimator when the regressors are all correlated with the individual effects, may not hold if the remainder disturbances have a general serial correlation variance-covariance matrix.
August 25, 2026

Barton Featured in NY Times Article on Liabilities Surrounding the Democratic Socialists of America

“There is some support for the claim that ideologues can more effectively mobilize the base and activate new voters, but they are also more effective at mobilizing opposition,” says Richard Barton, assistant teaching professor of public administration and international affairs.

August 24, 2026

Maxwell Faculty Scholarship Takes the Spotlight on The Academic Minute

Daryl Lovell

Five Syracuse faculty, including Maxwell professors Ryan Griffiths and Colleen Heflin, share findings on food policy, AI, architecture, political science and marine biology on the nationally broadcast program “The Academic Minute.”

August 21, 2026

Burman Talks to Newsweek About Trump’s Capital Gains Tax Proposal

“These are both terrible policy and politics,” says Leonard Burman, professor emeritus of public administration and international affairs. The benefits of both would “disproportionately accrue to the wealthiest households,” given the existing distribution of assets in the U.S., he says.

August 20, 2026

In Memoriam: Louise Gartner Birkhead ’52 M.P.A.

When Louise Gartner Birkhead arrived at the Maxwell School in 1951 to begin a master of public administration degree, she was one of only two women in her class. The education and training she received shaped a career devoted to public service and a lifelong drive to open doors in government for the women who would follow her. Birkhead died July 13 at the age of 97.

August 20, 2026

See related: In Memoriam

Reeher Quoted in Gothamist Article on Bruce Blakeman’s Run for NY Governor, Use of Trump Playbook

Bruce Blakeman should concentrate on pocketbook issues that could appeal to independent voters, says Grant Reeher, professor of political science. 

August 19, 2026

Can the Safety Net Support Families Through Childbirth?

Hyojeong Kim, Colleen Heflin, and Taryn Morrissey
This brief describes how safety net programs respond to the earnings disruptions surrounding childbirth and where they fall short. 
August 19, 2026

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