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Lovely Discusses Trump’s Arbitrary Trade Policy in New York Times Article

“What Mr. Trump is doing with tariffs is a result of a lost consensus about how the United States should interact with other countries in the global economy. He is stepping into that vacuum, filling it with the unrestrained and autocratic use of import taxes, moves that appear to be based on personal whim rather than on U.S. trade law,” says Mary Lovely, professor emerita of economics.

February 14, 2025

Keck Weighs In on Trump’s Threats to Ignore Court Orders in HuffPost Article

“Lots of the fights that they have picked—especially Musk’s out-of-control, rampant destruction of federal agencies from within—a lot of those fights they are not going to win in court,” says Thomas Keck, Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics.

February 13, 2025

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Evaluating the Impact of Housing Visions Properties on Resident Well Being

In partnership with Housing Visions, Maxwell X Lab worked to evaluate the impact of Housing Visions properties on resident housing stability and experience, and their health and wellbeing. 
February 13, 2025

Recruitment for the Baldanza Teaching Fellowship

Text reminders and mailed flyers with behaviorally informed messages are regularly used in public sector communication. This study uses a randomized controlled trial to examine which email format, a letter with university logos signed by a university official or an informational flyer with a photograph, is the more salient option when recruiting for a teacher training program designed for diverse, underrepresented students. 
February 13, 2025

Behavioral Nudges Increasing Activity in Adolescents with ADHD

An estimated 6.4 million U.S. children and adolescents have an ADHD diagnosis. This pilot study tested the efficacy of behavioral interventions aimed at encouraging daily physical activity (i.e., steps measured with an activity tracker) among adolescents with ADHD. 
February 13, 2025

In Memoriam: Valerie Goldstein

Valerie earned a bachelor’s degree in policy studies in the spring of 2024 after just three years and with a 4.0 GPA, and was in her first year with the organization Teach for America. She passed away on Dec. 23, 2024.

February 12, 2025

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Himmelreich Quoted in Defense One Article on Google’s Return to Defense AI

“Military and surveillance tech aren’t bad or unethical as such. Instead, supporting national security and doing so in the right way is incredibly important. And supporting national security is, in fact, arguably the ethical thing to do," says Johannes Himmelreich, assistant professor of public administration and international affairs. 

February 12, 2025

In Memoriam: John Marshall Townsend

Townsend joined the faculty in 1973, and through the decades served as a professor, mentor, writer and researcher in the Anthropology Department. He faced long-term health conditions but, so devoted to his craft and his students, he continued to teach through the spring of 2024. He passed away on Jan. 22, 2025, at the age of 83. 

February 11, 2025

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Reeher Speaks With LiveNOW from FOX About the Latest With Trump's Cabinet Confirmations

“ I thought that [Pete] Hegseth, the defense secretary, was the most problematic overall, of all the ones that stayed in the process. I think given that Hegseth has made it through, that tells me that the other ones are likely to make it as well,” says Grant Reeher, professor of political science.

February 11, 2025

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Increased Suicidality Risk among Adolescents with an Active-Duty Sibling or Parent in the United States

Andrew S. London and Kevin M. Antshel
This brief summarizes findings from a study that examined whether having a sibling and/or a parent on active duty in the U.S. military is associated with suicidality (i.e., thinking about death a lot, believing oneself is better off dead, thinking about suicide, planning suicide, and attempting suicide) among 12- to 17-year-old adolescent girls and boys in the United States. 
February 11, 2025

Two History Majors Receive Max Kade Fellowship for Language Study in Germany

Andrew Cole and Nathan Wenchao Lin, both history majors, received a $1,500 grant from the Max Kade Foundation to study German in Berlin.
February 10, 2025

Cohen Discusses How the US Has Used Tariffs Throughout History in CNBC Article

Before 1934, Congress—not presidents—had power over tariff rates and negotiations, says Andrew Wender Cohen, professor of history. But Democrats had an enormous majority around the New Deal era and passed the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1934, granting the president the right to negotiate tariffs in certain cases, Cohen says.

February 10, 2025

Banks Quoted in Newsweek, Stateline Articles on Deportations and Use of the Alien Enemies Act

“Although the Alien Enemies Act does not authorize military participation in law enforcement, if other laws permit their use, Trump could enable the military to implement summary detention and deportation of immigrants lawfully in the United States,” says William Banks, professor emeritus of public administration and international affairs.

February 7, 2025

McCormick Talks to InSight Crime About Trump’s Tariffs on Mexico

“Tariffs will hurt the Mexican economy, which will further weaken the Mexican system and the rule of law, and that’s going to make Mexico much more vulnerable to further incursions from organized crime,” says Gladys McCormick, Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair in Mexico-U.S. Relations.

February 6, 2025

Bundled Payment Impacts Uptake of Prescribed Home Health Care

Jun Li, Lacey Loomer

“Bundled Payment Impacts Uptake of Prescribed Home Health Care,” co-authored by Jun Li, assistant professor of public administration and international affairs, was published in the American Journal of Managed Care.

February 6, 2025

Civil Lawfare

April D. Fernandes, Brittany Friedman, Gabriela M. Kirk-Werner

“Civil Lawfare,” co-authored by Assistant Professor of Sociology Gabriela Kirk-Werner, was published in Social Problems.

February 5, 2025

Monmonier Speaks With the Washington Post About Trump’s Executive Order to Rename the Gulf of Mexico

Given how long-standing the Gulf of Mexico name has been, Mark Monmonier, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geography and the Environment, says he doesn’t see a logical reason to change it.

February 5, 2025

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Maxwell Student and Alumna Selected for Prestigious Rangel and Pickering Fellowships

Linda Baguma ’25, an international relations and political science major, has been named a 2025 Rangel Fellow and  Alexandria Johnson ’24, an international relations graduate, has been selected as a 2025 Pickering Fellow.

February 4, 2025

Monarch Discusses Trump’s Tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China in Newsweek and WAER Articles

In total, a 25 to 30 percent price increase would not be “outlandlish,” says Ryan Monarch, assistant professor of economics. “We should expect that those prices are going to go directly onto American buyers. Research has shown that Chinese suppliers pass on those prices completely,“ he says.

February 4, 2025

Behavioral Science-Based “Nudges” Could Increase Physical Activity among Adolescents with ADHD

Hannah Patnaik, Andrew S. London, and Kevin M. Antshel
This brief summarizes findings from a recently completed pilot study testing the efficacy of behavioral interventions aimed at encouraging daily physical activity (i.e., steps measured with an activity tracker) among adolescents with ADHD. 
February 4, 2025

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