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Kristy Buzard Selected for Minneapolis Federal Reserve Residency

The associate professor will join her research counterparts to advance their study of invisible labor and the mental and economic toll of tasks disproportionately carried out by women.

August 7, 2024

Wolf Summarizes Study on COVID-19 Distancing Restrictions, Drug Overdoses on Academic Minute

The study, “States’ COVID-19 Restrictions were Associated with Increases in Drug Overdose Deaths in 2020,” was co-authored by Douglas Wolf, professor emeritus of public administration and international affairs, and published in the American Journal of Public Health.

August 5, 2024

David Popp Co-Chairs National Academy of Sciences Committee

The group is, among other things, studying how two programs offered by the Department of Energy stimulate innovation and engage with small businesses.

August 5, 2024

Rubinstein Discusses Lead Poisoning in Onondaga County on WCNY’s CONNECT NY

“We can show the overlapping of areas of lead poisoning with poor educational performance, with teen pregnancy, with entry into the criminal justice system, and so on. So there's a whole set of ramifications,” says Robert Rubinstein, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology.

August 5, 2024

Sultana Comments on Academic Publishers Partnering With AI Companies in Chronicle of Higher Ed Piece

Professor of Geography and the Environment Farhana Sultana, concerned about how her work may be repurposed, says, “All this occurs while our intellectual property is woefully inadequately compensated, since there is abuse and profit off our mostly free intellectual labor by private corporations reaping profits in the billions of dollars annually from the sale of our books.”

August 3, 2024

Mitra Piece on India's Development Policy Challenge Published by the 1991 Project

“While it [India] has acquired some economic and political heft in global affairs on account of its large economy, it must rapidly raise the economic fortunes of the average Indian. Its current demographic situation makes this necessary. It is crucial that the country find productive employment for its young and rapidly expanding labor force in a way that fulfills the aspirations of these new workers,” writes Devashish Mitra, professor of economics.

August 2, 2024

Cleary Weighs In on Whether or Not Biden Dropping Out Was a Coup in PolitiFact Article

“Calling Biden’s decision a ‘coup’ does not clarify anything about all of this. It does not accurately reflect any part of what has happened here,” says Matthew Cleary, associate professor of political science.

August 2, 2024

Maxwell School 2024-25 Faculty Promotions Include Four Tenure Appointments

Edwin Ackerman, Marc Garcia, Timur Hammond and Alex Rothenberg have been promoted to associate professor.

August 1, 2024

Bybee Speaks With Agence France Presse About US Supreme Court Reform

Keith Bybee, professor of political science, says 6-3 rulings such as the immunity decision make the court appear more partisan in its decision-making. “But also, this majority is quite emboldened,” he says, rendering decisions that are “quite sweeping and overturn decades-old precedents” such as in the case of abortion.

August 1, 2024

Gadarian Discusses the Role of Delegates in Nominating a Presidential Candidate in UPI Article

“They [delegates] themselves are part of the party apparatus,“ says Shana Gadarian, professor of political science. “As with everything in politics in the United States, everything comes from the states. Occasionally you see a delegate make an individual decision and decide to vote for somebody else but that's pretty rare.”

July 31, 2024

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