New Robertson Fellows prepare to tackle international challenges
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Hou study on the impact of tax and expenditure limitations published in Publius
Zoli discusses economic warfare with Iran in WAER article
"In a war, you can hurt certain areas of a country, but you usually don't grenade the entire economy. Whereas with economic warfare, you truly can," says Corri Zoli, director of research in the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism.
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Understanding Opioid Users' Views on Fentanyl could help Reduce Overdoses
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Lovely comments on widening US-China trade gap on NPR
"I think whatever jobs are created by President Trump's war on global supply chains are going to be dwarfed by losses in the U.S. export sectors," says Mary Lovely, professor of economics.
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50 years later: O'Keefe discusses past and future space exploration
Former NASA Administrator and University Professor Sean O'Keefe spoke with several media outlets about the July 20, 1969, landing of Apollo 11 on the moon and the possibility of future space exploration. "It is a common aspirational goal as big as what we saw in the 1960s," O’Keefe told the Gazette. "Could we see convergence around a common goal that could benight this era? Absolutely."
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Reeher quoted in Press-Republican article on NY, Trump's tax returns
Grant Reeher, professor of political science and director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute, says that Governor Cuomo's signing of new legislation that allows Congressional committees to acquire President Trump's New York tax filings "represents a new escalation in the level of political polarization that we're seeing."
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Schnell publishes study on factors associated with open governments
Lee study on unmeasured cluster confounding and the bias of effect estimators published in SMMR
Monmonier quoted in National Parks article on renaming landmarks
"With a name that has been around for quite some time, the likelihood of getting it changed is not that great," says Mark Monmonier, Distinguished Professor of Geography.
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Boroujerdi quoted in National Interest article on Iran's IRGC
Professor of Political Science Mehrzad Boroujerdi says "their performance in the war gave them a seat at the proverbial power table," about Iranian militiamen in an article for the National Interest.
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Reeher comments on Jordan's proposed gun legislation in Jerusalem Post
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Jales paper on discontinuity in density published in Journal of Business & Economic Statistics
Monnat study using census data to understand differences in drug mortality published in AJPH
Veterans Program for Politics featured on Connecting Vets radio
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Baltagi and Flores-Lagunes article on the effect of education on health published in RSUE
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Lovely discusses possible outcomes of Trump-Xi meeting on Bloomberg
"We're looking at politics here so he [President Trump] may be looking for some gigantic sign that he has won, that he as somehow brought the Chinese to the table in a way that no one else could," says Mary Lovely, professor of economics. "And I think that's where the danger lies because that's what the Chinese are not going to want to give him."
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