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. 

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.

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. 

"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."

William C. Banks, professor of practice of public administration an international affairs, says it is up to individual states to reveal the extent to which their systems have been intruded upon. He adds that a federalized system with wide stratification of election officials bound to the county level makes the system resilient and harder to damage.

“We’ve had attacks, of course, Orlando for instance, San Bernadino, others. But we haven’t had the kind of proliferating attacks that Europe and Britain have had,” says Corri Zoli, director of research for the Institute for Security Policy and Law.

"I like to stay on the optimistic side to assume that though this seems to have stalled on the surface, ground work has never stopped," says Yilin Hou, professor of public administration and international affairs. "The Chinese style is, once something is announced, everything has been already done."

Danielle Thomsen, associate professor of political science, says "both male and female [Republican] donors make ideology a priority and pay no attention to candidates’ gender. Thus, no group of Republican donors is particularly committed to electing women," as an explanation for the lack of Republican women in Congress.

The Monday Mile is a part of the Lerner Center's Healthy Monday Campaign, an initiative aimed at offering weekly prompts and programs to support people and participating organizations in starting and sustaining healthy behaviors.

"We hear it a lot: Can we just have conversations and be on a first-name basis with officers?" says Rebecca Bostwick, managing director of the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion. "And [cops] have been good about it at the Near Westside block parties—just shoot some hoops with the kids. It's a work in progress. I'm optimistic about what the field house can do to move that forward."

Grant Reeher, professor of political science and director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute, theorized that Gillibrand's language could be an effort by the senator to closely connect with critics of Trump.

In the novel, Samuel Zamarripa ’78 M.P.A. offers a contemporary American voice through a narrative style that merges real world settings with fantastical elements and stories.

"Not sure it’s a big deal that @SenKamalaHarris gets interrupted more than her male colleagues during committee meetings? Here’s some reading," tweeted Shana Gadarian, associate professor of political science. She proceeded to share multiple examples and links to published reports of women being interrupted more than their male colleagues.

Ryan Gross, an incoming M.P.A. candidate and one of 61 Tillman Scholars across the nation, plans to use his degree to build upon the leadership and decision-making skills he gained through his career and to hone his policy development expertise. His goal is to create flexible, effective policy that will meet military commanders’ and soldiers’ operational needs on the ground.