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IDJC Launches Fellows Program for Thought Leaders in Journalism and Public Affairs

The inaugural class of IDJC fellows for the Spring 2025 semester includes investigative reporter and producer Josh Fine and former U.S. Public Delegate to the United Nations Andrew Weinstein.
January 14, 2025

O’Keefe Talks to CBS News, Florida Today About the Launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn Rocket

“The New Glenn rocket is all about significantly reducing the cost of access to space,” says Sean O'Keefe, University Professor and former NASA administrator. “This will give SpaceX some serious competition. ...These are exciting times in the space business.”

January 13, 2025

Intergenerational Relationships and Family Support: Implications for Health and Wellbeing

Merril Silverstein, Karen L Fingerman, J Jill Suitor

In this review, Professor and Chair of Sociology Merril Silverstein and co-authors summarize research projects supported by the National Institute on Aging that have contributed scholarship on intergenerational relationships and support provided to older adults that frequently precedes, and is often complementary to, intensive caregiving. Published in The Gerontologist.

January 13, 2025

Maxwell Sociologist’s New Documentary Reveals Plight of Syracuse Tenants

Written and directed by Gretchen Purser, the film is the culmination of a research grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. 

January 13, 2025

Bendix Speaks With PEOPLE and Washington Post About the Wildfires in Los Angeles, Climate Change

“Both drought and heat are known to be more likely in the context of human-caused climate change, so the fires burning now cannot be dismissed as anomalous events,” says Jacob Bendix, professor emeritus of geography and the environment.

January 10, 2025

Ekbia Discusses the Transformative Future of AI on FINTECH.TV

“Some people compare AI to the atomic bomb. I don't think this is that kind of risk, but there are risks. There are concerns—ethical, economic, social and cultural—that have to be addressed before it's too late. And I think one of our best tools to do that is policy,” says University Professor Hamid Ekbia.

January 10, 2025

Hranchak Says Political Rather Than Military Action May Deter Putin in WAER Interview

“Ukraine joining NATO will mean the readiness of the western countries to defend their own sovereignty and remain subjects of international relations, and such determination in itself is a deterrent," says Tetiana Hranchak, visiting assistant teaching professor in the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs.

January 9, 2025

Reeher Reflects on Former President Jimmy Carter’s Life and Legacy in LiveNOW from FOX Interviews

“He really was, I think, the right candidate and the right person and the right president for the times. And what happened to his presidency, ultimately I think, those same times overwhelmed his presidency” says Grant Reeher, professor of political science.

January 8, 2025

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In Memoriam: B. Ben Baldanza

Baldanza, a longtime Maxwell supporter and innovative business leader who helped transform the airline industry, passed away on Nov. 5, 2024. He was 62.

January 8, 2025

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Heflin Weighs In on Whether or Not RFK Jr. Can ‘Make America Healthy Again’ in BBC Interview

“RFK simply doesn't have jurisdiction over most of the policy levers that he would need to make America healthy again,” says Colleen Heflin, professor of public administration and international affairs.

January 6, 2025

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