Sultana Talks to TRT World News About the Political Situation in Bangladesh
“This revolution movement was led by very young students, the youthful generation. And they have called upon Nobel laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus to be the chief advisor of this interim, caretaker government. And they've called for peaceful transition,” says Farhana Sultana, professor of geography and the environment.
See related: Conflict, Government, South Asia
Taylor Quoted in Vox Article on the US-Russia Prisoner Swap
“Putin wanted to bring home a Russian assassin...and other spies, to show people who work in the Russian intelligence services that their government will try to bring them home if they get caught. The U.S. government and its allies wanted to free innocent people being held hostage in Russian prisons,” says Brian Taylor, professor of political science.
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.
See related: Awards & Honors, Child & Elder Care, Economic Policy, Gender and Sex, Labor
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.
See related: Children, Adolescents, Health Policy, Infrastructure, New York State, Urban Issues
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.”
See related: Autonomous Systems, Education, Labor, United States
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.
See related: Federal, Political Parties, U.S. Elections, United States
Huber Quoted in Cronkite News Article on the Paris Olympics as a Blueprint of Sustainability
Matthew Huber, professor of geography and the environment, highlights the infrastructural advantage France has to promote sustainability. “France is known for having one of the most decarbonized electric grids in the world because they have about 70% of their electricity coming from nuclear power, which is zero carbon energy,” Huber says.
See related: Energy, Europe, Infrastructure, Sustainability
Patel Speaks With the Washington Post About the Use of Sanctions as Economic Warfare by the US
“It was a pivotal moment,” Kristen Patel, Donald P. and Margaret Curry Gregg Professor of Practice in Korean and East Asian Affairs, says of President George W. Bush's targeting of a North Korean bank in 2003. “Treasury got the go-ahead to start pounding things with this hammer.”
See related: Conflict, Government, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. National Security, United States
Prema Kurien Recognized as Maxwell’s Daicoff Faculty Scholar
The designation was created with a generous gift from alumna and longtime advisory board member Cathy Daicoff.
See related: Awards & Honors, Giving, Promotions & Appointments, Study Abroad
Thompson Talks to CNY Central and WSYR About President Biden’s Endorsement of Kamala Harris
Margaret Susan Thompson, associate professor of history and political science, says that Biden’s endorsement of Kamala Harris means she will more than likely be the Democratic nominee in the November election. “Already we are hearing a lot of calls for unity, statements of enthusiasm, and a lot of speculation frankly about who might be the vice president. But I do not see a lot of noise around the candidate at the top,” she says.
See related: Federal, U.S. Elections, United States
Taylor Speaks With ABC News About Evan Gershkovich, Possible Prisoner Trade
Russia has maintained that discussions about trades for Gershkovich can only start in earnest after the trial is over, says Brian Taylor, professor of political science. “So the quicker the trial and the inevitable verdict, the quicker they can offer Evan as a piece in a possible trade,” Taylor says.
See related: Crime & Violence, International Affairs, Russia
Taylor Speaks with Spectrum News About the NATO Summit, President Biden
“...NATO member states are aware of it that a Trump presidency might mean quite a shaky time period for the alliance going forward,” says Professor of Political Science Brian Taylor. “President Biden has decades of experience with respect to dealing with NATO member countries and understanding the alliance. And President Trump has a much more negative and hostile attitude towards the alliance.
See related: Government, NATO, U.S. Elections, U.S. Foreign Policy, United States
Huber Talks to WRVO About the Climate Crisis and Its Impact on Working-Class People
“If we can’t find a way to do decarbonization and climate policy, in addition to materially improving working people’s lives…I really do fear that a lot of working people aren’t going to be that sympathetic to the climate agenda,” says Matthew Huber, professor of geography and the environment.
See related: Climate Change, Energy, New York State, State & Local
Jok Article on the Integration of the East African Community Published in Geeska Afrika
Can the people of the East African Community overcome cross-border suspicions and create a cohesive union of its 302.2 million citizens? Professor of Anthropology Jok Madut Jok explores the obstacles in his article.
See related: Africa (Sub-Saharan), Government
Feminism, Violence and Nonviolence: An Anthology
Selina Gallo-Cruz, associate professor and graduate director of sociology, has edited and written the introduction for “Feminism, Violence and Nonviolence: An Anthology” (Edinburgh University Press, 2024).
See related: Colonialism, Conflict, Crime & Violence, Gender and Sex, Race & Ethnicity
Herrold Serves as Keynote Panelist at Civil Society Summit Co-Hosted by USAID, SDC, Partners Global
Catherine Herrold, associate professor of public administration and international affairs, discussed different strategies for civil society under threat and highlighted the need for continued investment in civil society organization resilience as essential to defending democratic principles and achieving social justice.
See related: Global Governance, Non-governmental Organizations, Social Justice
Taylor Weighs In on Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan in Newsweek Article
“The idea of a peace plan for Russia's war against Ukraine sounds nice, but the ideas proposed by two Trump advisers would not be acceptable to either Russia or Ukraine,” says Brian Taylor, professor of political science and director of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs.
See related: Conflict, Government, International Affairs, Russia, U.S. Foreign Policy, Ukraine, United States
Understanding the Emergence of Computational Institutional Science
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McCormick Talks to NewsNation About Mexico’s New President, Ability to Deal With Drug Cartels
“When she [Claudia Sheinbaum] comes in, she is inheriting this mess, but she doesn’t necessarily have the charisma that (López Obrador) does,” says Gladys McCormick, Jay and Debe Moskowitz Endowed Chair in Mexico-U.S. Relations. “So it’s going to be a tall ask.”
See related: Crime & Violence, Government, Latin America & the Caribbean, National Security
Taylor Discusses the Impact of Ukraine Using Western Weapons Against Russia With Fox News, La Presse
Brian Taylor, professor of political science, says that the authorization given by the U.S. and Germany to Ukrainian strikes on Russian soil with weapons they supply could have an impact on the balance of power on Ukrainian territory.
See related: Conflict, Europe, Government, International Agreements, NATO, Russia, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. National Security, United States
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Screening of Blueberry Soup: Rewriting the Icelandic Constitution by Crowdsourcing
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Jaws dropped around the world on October 9, 2008 as a small collective of bankers brought an entire nation to its knees. Blueberry Soup chronicles the three year aftermath in Iceland that resulted in the re-writing of the nation's constitution. Documentary created by Eileen Jerret. Film screening co-sponsored by PARCC.
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