Carriere interviewed for CNBC article on Egypt, North Korea
"Egypt might be a particularly fruitful pressure point in applying pressure to North Korea," says Fred Carriere, research professor of political science. "There may be other motivations, but this move would certainly be the latest in a pattern of applying pressure to North Korea."
Maxwell School welcomes the 2017 - 2018 Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows
Burman discusses his tax policy proposal in Vox article
"Social Security is wildly popular," says Leonard Burman, professor of public administration and international affairs. "People support the regressive payroll tax because they like what it pays for and because it’s automatically withdrawn from their paychecks, unlike the reviled income tax that requires an obvious and painful annual reckoning."
Lewis discusses evolution of local government in PA Times
"The lesson we can take from nature is that evolution is the key to the future of local government. Evolution in nature and in government is risky—the outcome is uncertain. But the outcome of a refusal to evolve is certain: extinction in nature and irrelevance in government," writes Minch Lewis, adjunct professor of public administration and international affairs.
Monnat's research on deaths of despair, voting patterns cited in Associated Press
The map of Trump’s victory looked eerily similar to her documentation of deaths of despair, according to Shannon Monnat, associate professor of sociology and Lerner Chair of Public Health Promotion, from New England through the Rust Belt to the rural coast of Washington.
Reeher quoted in Washington Examiner on timing of Trump's Afghanistan plan
According to Grant Reeher, professor of political science and director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute, the timing of Trump's plan to speak on Afghanistan "feels a little like a ‘wag the dog' type of effort at distraction."
Elizabeth Cohen discusses crime, sanctuary cities in BuzzFeed News
Studies make it clear that crime in sanctuary jurisdictions is lower than in non-sanctuary cities, according to Elizabeth Cohen, associate professor of political science.
Gerard and Castro conduct conflict management workshop in Jordan
Karas Montez quoted in American Heart Association News article on education and health
Soleil Young '17 BA (Anth) makes discovery at the Smithsonian
Undergraduate research gets major boost from new program
Gerard and Bruno-van Vijfeijken deliver leadership program in Tanzania
Bing to deliver keynote address at SU's Coming Back Together gala
“Mentoring reinforces positive decision-making, increases self-esteem and helps young men become more productive individuals,” says former Detroit mayor David Bing '66 B.A. (Econ). “Decreasing the high school dropout rate [whose national average is 40 percent among African American males] increases job readiness.”
Hromadžić's book featured in RFE/RL article on the Bosnian city Mostar
Azra Hromadžić. professor of anthropology, oversaw the launch of the Bosnian translation of her book, Citizens of an Empty Nation, a book focused on a high school as a symbol of cultural divisiveness.
VIDEO: Geo major Maizy Ludden forages urban wild edible food for study
Steinberg quoted in CNN article on public approval of Trump
"If you don't have the American people behind you and you get into these huge exercises of drawing red lines, where are people going to be if he gets them into a conflict?" asks University Professor James Steinberg.
White discusses merging of Confederate and Nazi symbols in Washington Post
"While both the Confederacy and Nazi Germany waged wars to defend white supremacy, those two symbols were mostly kept apart for decades after World War II," says Steven White, incoming assistant professor of political science. "How those two symbols of white supremacy have come to overlap tells us a great deal about how white racist extremism developed— and where it might go."
SU shines at American Sociological Association meeting in Montreal
“We are honored to participate in this year’s annual meeting, which seeks to promote greater social inclusion and resilience, collective well-being and solidarity, both here and abroad,” says Prema Kurien, professor and chair of sociology.
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