Maxwell School News and Commentary

The study of gerontology at Syracuse — including research done in Maxwell’s Center for Policy Research — has gotten a boost with a new Aging Studies Institute and a named professorship. Already prominent, SU’s gerontological programs are poised for growth and greater recognition.

The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University enters its second year of collaboration with the Robertson Foundation for Government by naming the two newest Robertson Fellows.

The Maxwell School has attracted a new national fellowship program that promotes careers in the federal government.

When the Near East Foundation searched for a collegiate home, they found eager partners in Syracuse University — and, especially, in Maxwell and the Middle Eastern Studies Program.

Before there was an “NGO sector,” young people who wanted to go overseas and change lives joined the Peace Corps. They still do. Among hundreds of alumni who served in the Corps, we reached out to these seven to see how the experience nourished their public-service psyche and connected to their Maxwell education.

The Donald P. and Margaret Gregg Professorship and the new Korean Peninsula Affairs Center will make Maxwell a locus for study of this complicated little corner of the world.