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PhD student Fabiola Ortiz discusses harassment on NY farms with NPR
Fabiola Ortiz '16 MA (Anth) and PhD student in anthropology was interviewed for the segment "A Sexual Harassment Nightmare in Rural New York" on NPR's Latino USA. "When you are an undocumented farmworker, you have very little resources," says Ortiz, who studies New York dairy farmworkers.

Maxwell researchers contribute to book on health of aging veterans
Several faculty members and a PhD candidate from the Maxwell School’s Department of Sociology and Syracuse University’s Aging Studies Institute have contributed to a groundbreaking new book, Long-Term Outcomes of Military Service: The Health and Well-Being of Aging Veterans, published by the American Psychological Association.

SU Hult Prize winners announced, history major leads winning team
Farm to Flame Energy, founded by William Lee Mendes McKnight, a history major in the Maxwell School, won the Syracuse University campus qualifier for the prestigious Hult Prize and will advance to one of the 15 regional finals in March 2018. The Hult Prize, known as “The Nobel Prize for student startups,” seeks out game-changing student social enterprises that compete to solve the world’s toughest challenges.

Keck, Hoy discuss case on artistic expression, civil rights in PS
Tom Keck, Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics, and PhD candidate Aaron Hoy '14 MA (Soc), were featured in the Post Standard article, "Cake wars: Supreme Court to hear case on artistic expression, civil rights."

Maxwell geog student pursues research through NSF-funded program
Hamish Gibbs, a student in Maxwell's Geography department, participated in the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program, funded by the National Science Foundation. Gibbs spent his summer of research with the School for the Environment at the University of Massachusetts in Boston looking at the impact land cover has on small organisms in cranberry bogs.

PhD candidate Aaron Hoy article on same-sex divorce published in JDR
Sociology PhD candidate Aaron Hoy '14 MA (Soc) examines the challenges that gays and lesbians face when divorcing in his paper "Invisibility, Illegibility, and Stigma: The Citizenship Experiences of Divorced Gays and Lesbians," published in the Journal of Divorce and Remarriage.

London and Hoy article on sexuality, marriage duration published in PR
In their study, "Same-Sex Sexuality and the Duration of First Different-Sex Marriages," Andrew London and PhD candidate Aaron Hoy '14 MA (Soc) find that different dimensions of same-sex sexuality reduce marital duration by 18-24 months among the once married, once divorced. Their paper was recently published in Population Review.

Maxwell alums featured in US News article on college prep for veterans
Nicholas Armstrong '08 MPA/'14 PhD (SSc) and Mitchell Forbes '16 BA (PSt), current EMPA student and 2017-18 SoldierStrong scholar, were interviewed for the U.S. News & World Report article "Prepare for College as a Veteran."

Maxwell student reflects on Critical Language Scholarship experience
Giovanna Saccoccio is a senior majoring in international relations. Last spring, she earned a prestigious Critical Language Scholarship that allowed her to study Turkish intensively through an immersive experience abroad in Azerbaijan this past summer.

Model UN team named distinguished delegation at DC conference
A Syracuse University/Maxwell team participating in the National Model United Nations (NMUN) conference earlier this month was named a “Distinguished Delegation” for its portrayal of the Republic of Finland/Suomi. The conference, held in Washington, D.C., drew more than 1,000 college and university students from across the U.S. and nine other nations.

Inaugural Otey and Barbara Scruggs graduate scholars named
The Maxwell School has named two graduate students as the inaugural Otey and Barbara Scruggs Graduate Scholars: John R. Barruzza, a PhD candidate in the history department, and Chelsea M. Thomas, a student in the Master of Public Administration (MPA) program.

Maxwell students named as 2017-18 SoldierStrong scholars
Maxwell graduate students Mitch Forbes and Chris Tonsmeire, both U.S. military veterans, have been named as this year’s SoldierStrong scholars, under terms of a scholarship the SoldierStrong Foundation provides to veterans at the School. Forbes is pursuing an Executive MPA and Tonsmeire is a first-year MA student in international relations.

Drew Kinney '14 MA (PSc) publishes article on NYC terrorist attack
PhD candidate Drew Kinney '14 MA (PSc) discusses the recent terrorist attack in New York City in his article, "The NYC Attack: Let’s Not Rush to Ban Driving," published on the Utica College Center of Public Affairs and Election Research website.

Public policy fellowship puts Maxwell senior on path to grad school
Chizobam Nwagwu ’18 BA (PSt) spent an intensive seven weeks as a Public Policy and International Affairs Program fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs. The summer institute program cemented her goals for her future.

Yu, French discuss S. Korea, nuclear submarines in National Interest
Jihoon Yu '10 MA (PSc)/'14 PhD (PSc) and Erik French '12 MA (PSc), a current PhD student in political science, explore some of the potential risks and rewards of a U.S.-assisted South Korean nuclear-powered submarine program in their article, "Should South Korea Start Building Nuclear Submarines?" published in The National Interest.

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