Maxwell School News and Commentary
Buzard study on spatial clustering of R&D labs featured in CityLab
Kristy Buzard, assistant professor of economics, and her co-authors find that private R&D labs are highly concentrated over a wide range of spatial scales in both California and the Northeast Corridor of the United States. The authors use distance-based point pattern techniques and a novel approach called the multiscale core-cluster approach to identify major clusters of R&D labs in both regions.
Zoli discusses the North Korea crisis on CNY Central
Sadanandan weighs in on farmer suicides in India on Climate Central
See related: Agriculture, Climate Change, South Asia
Murrett weighs in on US tensions with North Korea in CNBC article
Remembering William ‘Bill’ Pooler, professor emeritus of sociology
Professor Bill Pooler "was a popular instructor whose courses were always oversubscribed. His teaching approach was to get students interested and involved in the subject, not just to memorize facts,” says Christine Himes, former chair of the Sociology Department in the Maxwell School.
Banks discusses the Russia probe on Bloomberg Law
"I think it's a very disturbing trend for the President to turn the relationship between the presidency and the justice department into an adversarial relationship based on political points of view. The justice department is charged with enforcing the law, it's that simple, and they shouldn't be influenced to do so in a certain way by the president or anyone else," says William C. Banks, director of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism.
Barkun cited in article on post-truth era in The Atlantic
In his book, "A Culture of Conspiracy," Professor Emeritus of Political Science Michael Barkun writes "such subject-specific areas as crank science, conspiracist politics, and occultism are not isolated from one another," but rather "they are interconnected."
Ma study on race and gender in STEM degree attainment published in Social Sciences
Jenny Sacks '08 BA (Soc) to receive Generation Orange Award
Jenny Sacks '08 B.A. (Soc), current president of the Syracuse University Alumni Club of Philadelphia, is this year’s recipient of the Generation Orange Award. The award recognizes alumni who have made an impact on campus and in their communities through volunteer work and philanthropy on behalf of Syracuse University.