Dean’s Office, CPR fund summer project assistantships
Eleven
faculty members recently received awards from the Maxwell School to support emerging
research projects this summer.
The
awards, granted in two separate programs by the Dean’s Office and by the Center
for Policy Research (CPR), each fund a graduate assistant to work on
preliminary research that will enable the faculty member to submit a related proposal for external funding.
These five faculty members received awards from the Dean’s Office:
- Kristy Buzard (Economics), for a project related to lobbying
and legislative uncertainty;
- Peng Gao (Geography), for a study of morphological
changes of braided rivers in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau using UAV, multispectral,
and SAR remote sensing;
- Yingyi Ma (Sociology), for a project titled “Chinese
Students Amidst COVID-19: Double Binds and Difficult Choices”;
- Gretchen Purser (Sociology), for a “Freedom Commons:
Entanglements of Social and Penal Policy in Housing Provision for the Poor”;
and
- Emily Wiemers (PAIA), for “The Strength of the Family
Safety Net during the Coronavirus Pandemic”
The Center for Policy Research also supported assistantships for five
projects, involving these six faculty members:
- Madonna Harrington Meyer (Sociology), for “Policy-Making with
Carrots and Sticks: Social Security Early Retirement Deduction vs. Delayed
Retirement Credit”;
- Colleen Heflin and
Micah Rothbart (both PAIA), for “Statewide, Longitudinal Analysis of
Malleable Factors Related to High School Completion Outcomes for Students with
High Incidence Disabilities”;
- Jan Ondrich (Economics), for “Equivalence Scaling for
Disability in the United States and Germany”;
- Alex Rothenberg (Economics), for “The Consequences of
Urban Sprawl in Developing Countries: Economic, Environmental, and Social
Outcomes”; and
- Johnny Yinger (Economics/PAIA), for “The Cause of
Household Sorting Across Communities: Zoning or Competition?”
For information about research support available to faculty members,
email Jill Ferguson, Maxwell’s director of research development, at jsfergus@.syr.edu.
06/24/20