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Elizabeth Cohen discusses crime, sanctuary cities in BuzzFeed News

Studies make it clear that crime in sanctuary jurisdictions is lower than in non-sanctuary cities, according to Elizabeth Cohen, associate professor of political science.

August 22, 2017

Gerard and Castro conduct conflict management workshop in Jordan

Catherine Gerard and Peter Castro conducted a four-day workshop in Amman, Jordan. The workshop was funded by the Near East Foundation Olive Oil Without Borders III Project to promote reconciliation between Palestinians, Israelis, and Jordanians by strengthening economic cooperation and promoting mutual understanding in the olive sector.
August 18, 2017

Karas Montez quoted in American Heart Association News article on education and health

"Education shapes health and mortality," says Jennifer Karas Montez, Gerald B. Cramer Faculty Scholar of Aging Studies. "If I had to pick three pieces of information about somebody and predict their life expectancy, I would want to know age, sex and education level. It’s that important." Read more in the American Heart Association News article, "More education may mean a longer, healthier life." 08/17/17
August 17, 2017

Soleil Young '17 BA (Anth) makes discovery at the Smithsonian

Student researcher discovered tuberculosis DNA in the tartar on individuals' teeth in a collection for biological research in the Smithsonian’s Division of Physical Anthropology. 
August 17, 2017

Undergraduate research gets major boost from new program

Syracuse's Center for Fellowship & Scholarship Advising (CFSA) chose nine undergraduate researchers, including several Maxwell students, to participate in the Young Research Fellows Program (YRFP)
August 16, 2017

Gerard and Bruno-van Vijfeijken deliver leadership program in Tanzania

Catherine Gerard and Tosca Bruno-van Vijfeijken delivered the Senior Leadership Development Programme in Tanzania. They were invited by several large international NGOs: ActionAid, Amnesty International, Greenpeace, and Oxfam.
August 16, 2017

Bing to deliver keynote address at SU's Coming Back Together gala

“Mentoring reinforces positive decision-making, increases self-esteem and helps young men become more productive individuals,” says former Detroit mayor David Bing '66 B.A. (Econ). “Decreasing the high school dropout rate [whose national average is 40 percent among African American males] increases job readiness.”

August 16, 2017

Hromadžić's book featured in RFE/RL article on the Bosnian city Mostar

Azra Hromadžić. professor of anthropology, oversaw the launch of the Bosnian translation of her book, Citizens of an Empty Nation, a book focused on a high school as a symbol of cultural divisiveness.

August 16, 2017

VIDEO: Geo major Maizy Ludden forages urban wild edible food for study

Maizy Ludden ’19 BA (Geo), a scholar in the Renée Crown University Honors Program, is conducting research that is literally taking her into the field (and on her bike) to gather information about food that’s growing in unlikely places. 08/15/17
August 15, 2017

Steinberg quoted in CNN article on public approval of Trump

"If you don't have the American people behind you and you get into these huge exercises of drawing red lines, where are people going to be if he gets them into a conflict?" asks University Professor James Steinberg.

August 15, 2017

White discusses merging of Confederate and Nazi symbols in Washington Post

"While both the Confederacy and Nazi Germany waged wars to defend white supremacy, those two symbols were mostly kept apart for decades after World War II," says Steven White, incoming assistant professor of political science. "How those two symbols of white supremacy have come to overlap tells us a great deal about how white racist extremism developed— and where it might go."

August 15, 2017

SU shines at American Sociological Association meeting in Montreal

“We are honored to participate in this year’s annual meeting, which seeks to promote greater social inclusion and resilience, collective well-being and solidarity, both here and abroad,” says Prema Kurien, professor and chair of sociology.

August 14, 2017

Buzard study on spatial clustering of R&D labs featured in CityLab

Kristy Buzard, assistant professor of economics, and her co-authors find that private R&D labs are highly concentrated over a wide range of spatial scales in both California and the Northeast Corridor of the United States. The authors use distance-based point pattern techniques and a novel approach called the multiscale core-cluster approach to identify major clusters of R&D labs in both regions.

August 14, 2017

Zoli discusses the North Korea crisis on CNY Central

Corri Zoli was on CNY Central television speaking about the nuclear threat between the United States and North Korea.
August 11, 2017

Sadanandan weighs in on farmer suicides in India on Climate Central

Anoop Sadanandan, assistant professor of political science, was interviewed for the Climate Central article, "New Findings Show How Climate Change Is Influencing India’s Farmer Suicides." Sadanandan says the study shows a new pathway for research into the nuances of suicide not just among farmers but the population as a whole in India. 08/11/17
August 11, 2017

Murrett weighs in on US tensions with North Korea in CNBC article

Robert Murrett, deputy director of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, was interviewed for the CNBC article, "US-South Korean war games provide trigger that could further inflame Pyongyang." 
August 10, 2017

Remembering William ‘Bill’ Pooler, professor emeritus of sociology

Professor Bill Pooler "was a popular instructor whose courses were always oversubscribed. His teaching approach was to get students interested and involved in the subject, not just to memorize facts,” says Christine Himes, former chair of the Sociology Department in the Maxwell School.

August 10, 2017

Banks discusses the Russia probe on Bloomberg Law

"I think it's a very disturbing trend for the President to turn the relationship between the presidency and the justice department into an adversarial relationship based on political points of view. The justice department is charged with enforcing the law, it's that simple, and they shouldn't be influenced to do so in a certain way by the president or anyone else," says William C. Banks, director of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism.

August 8, 2017

Barkun cited in article on post-truth era in The Atlantic

In his book, "A Culture of Conspiracy," Professor Emeritus of Political Science Michael Barkun writes "such subject-specific areas as crank science, conspiracist politics, and occultism are not isolated from one another," but rather "they are interconnected."

August 8, 2017

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