Maxwell School News and Commentary
Lopoo wins 2017 Birkhead-Burkhead Award
Leonard M. Lopoo, professor of public administration and international affairs and director of the Maxwell School’s Center for Policy Research, is the 2017 recipient of the Birkhead-Burkhead Teaching Excellence Award and Professorship. The Birkhead-Burkhead Award and Professorship is an annual award that recognizes outstanding teaching in PAIA.
Baltagi article on health care expenditure published in Health Economics
WP 204 Financing Central Cities
PhD student Jennifer Brooks receives American Sociological Association Grad Student Paper Award
Sociology Ph.D. student Jennifer Brooks' study, “Just a Little Respect: Differences in Job Satisfaction among Individuals With and Without Disabilities,” finds lower rates of job satisfaction for workers with disabilities, explained in part by differences in perceived workplace respect.
Reeher discusses Trump's energy proposals in Washington Examiner
According to Grant Reeher, professor of political science and director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute, Trump's basic policy framework for energy—reducing regulation, producing and consuming more of America's own energy resources—has more obvious appeal and is easier to sell to voters.
Maxwell provides executive training for India's IAS senior officers
Nilab Mobarez '16 EMPA heads Afghan Red Crescent Society
Nilab Mobarez '16 E.M.P.A. has been appointed secretary general of the Afghan Red Crescent Society, which is the Afghan affiliate for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies—the world's largest humanitarian network.
Elizabeth Cohen comments on revised travel ban in Boston Herald
Huber interviewed by TIME about the recent Southwest heatwave
"We’ve built entire infrastructures with particular temperatures in mind," says Matthew Huber, associate professor of geography. "When temperatures get really high, we don’t have the material capacity to deal with that."