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What Municipalities Really Want: Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence among New York State Municipal Leaders

Nicholas Croce & Saba Siddiki

This September 2025 Research to Practice Brief summarizes "What Municipalities Really Want: Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence among New York State Municipal Leaders," co-authored by Nicholas Croce (Syracuse University) & Saba Siddiki (Syracuse University).

September 26, 2025

Understanding COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among the General Population in Japan from Public Health Ethical Perspectives: Findings from a Narrative Review

Moe Kuroda, Md Koushik Ahmed, Kaku Kuroda, Sandra D. Lane

Co-authored by Sandra Lane, professor emerita of public health, the article was published in Asian Bioethics Review.

September 24, 2025

Nonfinancial Factors Shape Food Insecurity Among U.S. Older Adults

Madonna Harrington Meyer and Colleen M. Heflin
Nonfinancial factors such as poor physical and mental health, lack of access to healthy food, and transportation challenges make it more difficult for older adults to obtain, prepare, and consume healthy food. Based on the book, Food for Thought: Understanding Older Adults Food Insecurity, this brief summarizes how nonfinancial factors function as both causes and consequences of food insecurity in old age. 
September 23, 2025

How Commerce Became Legal: Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt

Omar Cheta

Omar Cheta, assistant professor of history, has written How Commerce Became Legal: Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2025). The book explores Egypt’s adoption of a new infrastructure of commercial laws and institutions following the country’s opening to private capital in the 1840s. 

September 16, 2025

Saving the “Lungs of the City”: Emerging Civic Action in Urban Environmental Policy: Case Studies from Tampere, Finland and Worcester, Massachusetts

Markus Lainea, Selina Gallo-Cruz, Helena Leino

Co-authored by Associate Professor of Sociology Selina Gallo-Cruz, the article was published in Local Environment.

September 16, 2025

Budget Tradeoffs Shape Food Insecurity Among U.S. Older Adults

Madonna Harrington Meyer and Colleen M. Heflin
For low-income older adults, it may be difficult to meet basic needs on a fixed monthly income.  This brief summarizes how budget tradeoffs between food and other essential expenses—housing, utilities, medical care, transportation, and personal and cleaning supplies—shape food insecurity among older adults. 
September 16, 2025

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Between Dovecotes and Columbaria: Rock-Cut Architecture in 19th Century Cuba

Odlanyer Hernandez-de-Lara, José Manuel Gil Avalos, Judith Rodríguez Reyes, Esteban Grau González-Quevedo, Darién Urquiza Rives

The article, co-authored by Odlanyer Hernández de Lara, Ph.D. candidate and part-time instructor in anthropology, was published in Post-Medieval Archaeology.

September 11, 2025

The Pandemic Journaling Project: A New Dataset of First-Person Accounts of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Sarah S. Willen, Katherine A. Mason, Heather M. Wurtz, Sebastian Karcher

Co-authored by Sebastian Karcher, director of the Center for Qualitative and Multi-Method Inquiry and the Qualitative Data Repository, was published in PLOS One.

September 11, 2025

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Failure. Russia Under Putin

Brian Taylor

Brian Taylor, professor of political science, contributed a chapter to the recently published book Failure. Russia Under Putin (Bloomsbury, 2025). He is one of multiple authors who share their views on Russia’s failures under the leadership of Vladimir Putin. 

September 11, 2025

Policy Recommendations to Reduce Old Age Food Insecurity in the United States

Colleen M. Heflin and Madonna Harrington Meyer

The current policy responses to old age food insecurity are complex, costly, and not nearly effective enough. Based on the book, Food for Thought: Understanding Older Adults Food Insecurity, this brief summarizes five policy recommendations to improve food insecurity among U.S. older adults. 

September 10, 2025

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Climate-Induced Redistribution of People Is Not Inevitable

Ingrid Boas, Farhana Sultana et al

The article, co-authored by Professor of Geography and the Environment Farhana Sultana, was published in Environmental Research Letters.

September 9, 2025

The 2024 Chapel Hill Expert Survey on Political Party Positioning in Europe: Twenty-Five Years of Party Positional Data

Jan Rovny, Jonathan Polk, Ryan Bakker, Liesbet Hooghe, Seth Jolly, Gary Marks, Marco Steenbergen, Milada Anna Vachudova
Co-authored by Associate Professor and Chair of Political Science Seth Jolly, the article was published in Electoral Studies.
September 9, 2025

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Do Immigrants’ Partisan Preferences Influence Americans’ Support for Immigration?

Daniel McDowell, David A. Steinberg

The article, co-authored by Professor of Political Science Daniel McDowell, was published in the Journal of Experimental Political Science.

September 9, 2025

How is Food Insecurity Measured in the United States and What Share of Older Adults are Food Insecure?

Colleen M. Heflin and Madonna Harrington Meyer
Based on the book, Food for Thought: Understanding Older Adults Food Insecurity, this brief summarizes the limitations of food insecurity measurements, noting that existing measures do not account for barriers that are common among older adults, such as mobility, physical distance, and transportation barriers.
September 9, 2025

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The Basics of the Mundlak and Chamberlain Projections

Badi H. Baltagi and Tom Wansbeek
September 8, 2025

Transitioning from planning to implementation: comparing collaborative governance and developmental dynamics in 4 watersheds

Graham Ambrose and Mark T. Imperial

"Transitioning from planning to implementation: comparing collaborative governance and developmental dynamics in 4 watersheds," co-authored by CPDG Faculty Research Affiliate Graham Ambrose and Mark T. Imperial, was published in Policy Sciences on August 26, 2025.

September 8, 2025

Food for Thought: Understanding Older Adult Food Insecurity

Colleen Heflin, Madonna Harrington Meyer

Written by Colleen Heflin, professor of public administration and international affairs, and University Professor Madonna Harrington Meyer, the book examines the issue of food insecurity among older adults in the United States. 

September 4, 2025

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