Partisan Inequality in Property Tax Assessment
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."
See related: Central Asia, Sustainability
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’.”
See related: New York City, U.S. Elections, United States
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.
See related: Federal, Tariffs, Trade, United States
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.
See related: China, Federal, International Affairs, U.S. Education, United States
Student Alienation in Schools Goes Beyond Low Achievement
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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.”
See related: Federal, Tariffs, Trade, United States
International Bureaucrats Under Transparency: The Case of the WTO TRIPS Council
Co-authored by Minju Kim, assistant professor of political science, the article was published in the Review of International Organizations.
See related: Global Governance, Government, International Agreements
MPH Alumna Awarded Prestigious Applied Epidemiology Fellowship in Seattle
Aspiring to a career in wastewater epidemiology, Catherine Faruolo hopes to expand on the knowledge, skills and perspective she gained at Syracuse.
Gadarian Speaks With The Cincinnati Enquirer About 2028 Presidential Bids
“There are just so many things that have happened in the last six months in this presidential administration that to think that we know what the issues will be in 2028 and who the players will be—I think it's just asking too much,” says Shana Gadarian, Merle Goldberg Fabian Professor of Excellence in Citizenship and Critical Thinking.
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Virtual Reality, Real Insight: VR Shows Economics Class the Realities of Developing Economies
Students in Andrew Jonelis’ Economics of Emerging Markets course have received an up-close view of markets thousands of miles away thanks to the Digital Scholarship Space.
See related: Economic Policy, Education, Housing, Infrastructure, Labor, Student Experience
Maxwell Students Research Impact of Redlining as 2024-26 Lender Fellows
Tommy DaSilva, Darla Hobbs, Jamea Candy Johnson and Sabrina Lussier are exploring housing as a critical determinant of social and health inequities under the guidance of Miriam Mutambudzi.
Monarch Quoted in Newsweek Article on Trump’s Tariff Checks
Any funding not covered by what tariffs have raised would likely have to come through Congressional authorization, says Ryan Monarch, associate professor of economics. “It’s not something the president can just wave a magic wand and disperse the money as they see fit,” he says.
Maxwell Experts Unpack the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’
A recent State of Democracy lecture offered varying perspectives from Maxwell faculty members Brynt Parmeter, Leonard Burman and Colleen Heflin in a discussion led by Chris Faricy, director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute.
See related: Congress, Federal, Government, Student Experience, United States
Haq Talks to CNN About US Citizens' Confidence in the Justice System
“Part of this challenge is there are people who feel empowered and emboldened to just make bald-faced lies and then there's people like this young man who was the security guard at a farm where there were undocumented workers on the farm, and he's like here's my passport. Let me just get it for you, I'm a U.S. citizen. And they didn't care,” says Nayyera Haq, assistant dean of Washington programs.
See related: Crime & Violence, Federal, Law, U.S. Immigration, United States
Celebrating Hometown Heroes
From graduate school classmates to leaders in veteran advocacy, Tom Caruso and Josh Keefe are recognized for their dedication to veterans and their lasting impact on Syracuse University.
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Allport’s Book ‘Advance Britannia’ Reviewed in the London Sunday Times
“There is no silly sensationalism in this book, merely sound storytelling and measured judgments. The author writes of ‘that particular German approach to war-making in the first half of the 20th century—tactical ingenuity in the service of strategic vacuity,’ writes Max Hastings, book critic for The Sunday Times.
Inflation and Incumbent Support: Experimental Evidence from the 2024 US Presidential Election
Co-authored by Professor of Political Science Daniel McDowell, the study was published in the British Journal of Political Science.
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McCormick Piece on US-Mexico Relations, Tariffs and Drug Trafficking Published in The Hill
“The presence of U.S. troops in Mexico will severely and irreparably undermine [President of Mexico] Sheinbaum’s counter-narcotics policies, which are netting results. Crippling the Sheinbaum administration will give rise to an even bigger and stronger enemy south of the border,” writes Gladys McCormick, Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair in Mexico-U.S. Relations.
Faricy Quoted in Frankfurter Rundschau Article on Trump, US Economy
In order to persuade Trump's loyal MAGA camp to critically question the economy, the country would have to fall into a deep, prolonged recession, according to Christopher Faricy, associate professor of political science. In addition, there is a need for “more uniform reporting” in the media, which attributes the economic crisis to Trump's policies, he says.
See related: Economic Policy, Federal, Political Parties, Tariffs, Trade, U.S. Elections, United States