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O’Keefe Talks to the Washington Post About Trump Ending the Presidential Management Fellows Program

“This is one of the most unsettling, tragic pieces of news yet,” says Sean O’Keefe, University Professor and member of the presidential management program’s inaugural class. “This is a firing of convenience. They are looking for a headcount reduction; there is nothing qualitative about this.”

February 21, 2025

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Coplin Discusses the Implications of Social Promotions in Schools on Teacher RockStar Podcast

 “You have to have social promotion. You have no choice. And the only place I would be in favor of making them repeat is if they can't read,” says Bill Coplin, professor of policy studies.

February 20, 2025

Self-Reported ADHD Diagnosis Status Among Working-Age Adults in the United States: Evidence From the 2023 National Wellbeing Survey

Andrew S. London, Shannon M. Monnat, Iliya Gutin

“Self-Reported ADHD Diagnosis Status Among Working-Age Adults in the United States: Evidence From the 2023 National Wellbeing Survey,” co-authored by Maxwell professors Andrew London, Shannon Monnat and Iliya Gutin, was published in the Journal of Attention Disorders.

February 20, 2025

Fairchild Cited in The Atlantic Article on the Erasing of Science in the US

Scientific expertise itself is now being billed as a political liability, which opens the door to “a populist approach to what counts as valid scientific knowledge,” says University Professor Amy Fairchild.

February 19, 2025

The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Anthropology

Shannon A. Novak

Shannon Novak, professor of anthropology, has contributed to “The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Anthropology” (Routledge, 2025). Her chapter, “Blood, mud, and mucking around with waste,” examines the materiality and logic of separation practices involved in the gendering of landscapes, bodies and subjectivities at a mother goddess (Mariamma) temple in the industrial outskirts of Toronto, Canada. 

February 19, 2025

How Do Gender and Marital Status Impact High-Risk Polysubstance Use

Kira England and Alexander Chapman
This brief summarizes findings from a study that examined gender and marital status differences in high-risk polysubstance use among U.S. adults ages 18 and older. The authors find that polysubstance use is higher among men and marriage was more protective against polysubstance use for men than women. 
February 18, 2025

Taylor’s ‘Russian Politics’ One of Forbes’ Must-Read Books to Understand Russia, the War in Ukraine

“Syracuse University professor Brian Taylor, author of ‘Russian Politics: A Very Short Introduction,’ packs a wealth of analysis and interesting facts into a compact book,” writes Stuart Anderson, senior contributor at Forbes.

February 18, 2025

Monarch Speaks With Newsweek About US tariffs and the Housing Market

Ryan Monarch, assistant professor of economics, says that it is “clear” tariffs on products like steel and aluminum will increase the cost of building housing and developments and, therefore, drive up the prices of housing in the U.S.

February 17, 2025

Patchy Internalization: Transnational Migration and Local Buildings in the Bosnian Borderland

Azra Hromadžić

“Patchy Internalization: Transnational Migration and Local Buildings in the Bosnian Borderland,” authored by Associate Professor of Anthropology Azra Hromadžić, was published in Society.

February 17, 2025

Bankrolling the Belgrade Bandits? Civil Society, NGOs, and Foreign Aid Localization in Serbia

Catherine E. Herrold

“Bankrolling the Belgrade Bandits? Civil Society, NGOs, and Foreign Aid Localization in Serbia,” authored by Catherine Herrold, associate professor of public administration and international affairs, was published in Public Administration and Development.

February 17, 2025

Fighting to Survive: Collective Action, Trusted Messengers, and UNITE HERE's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Jenny Breen, Gretchen Purser

“Fighting to Survive: Collective Action, Trusted Messengers, and UNITE HERE's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic,” co-authored by Associate Professor of Sociology Gretchen Purser, was published in Labor Studies.

February 17, 2025

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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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