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Aging-in-Place Organizations are Key to Building Disaster Resilience for Older Adults

Claire Pendergrast

COVID-19 has tragically demonstrated the serious threat that pandemics and other disasters pose to older adults’ health, safety, and well-being. What role can senior centers and senior villages play in protecting older adults’ health and building their resilience during COVID-19 and other disasters?

June 5, 2020

Banks discusses the Insurrection Act with Christian Science Monitor, Military.com

"You want to come to the aid of the states when states can’t take care of themselves," says Professor Emeritus William C. Banks, about President Trump's threat to invoke the Insurrection Act.

June 4, 2020

Gender Disparities in Caretaking during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Danielle Rhubart

Women have consistently been responsible for more child and elder care than men in the U.S. This disparity continues during COVID-19 and is affecting women’s work.

June 4, 2020

Breaking Isolation: Self Care for When Coronavirus Quarantine Ends

Dessa Bergen-Cico

This brief describes how prolonged periods of solitude affect our mental health and provides some strategies for how we can protect our mental and emotional health as we reengage with society.

June 3, 2020

Mitra discusses India's need for an effective rescue plan in Economic Times

"As reviving the economy is not possible without restarting production, there needs to be a phased exit from the lockdown through extensive testing that identifies people who can go back to work with the confidence that they won’t contract the disease from others," says Devashish Mitra, Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs.

June 1, 2020

See related: Economic Policy, India

Intellectual and developmental disability and COVID-19 case-fatality trends: TriNetX analysis

Margaret A. Turk, Scott D. Landes, Margaret K. Formica & Katherine D. Gross
COVID-19 appears to present a greater risk to people with IDD, especially at younger ages.
June 1, 2020

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COVID-19 Mortality Rates are Higher among People with Intellectual and Developmental Disability

Scott D. Landes

Despite higher risk of severe outcomes from COVID-19 among people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), there has been limited reporting of COVID-19 trends for this population. This research brief shows that higher COVID-19 case fatality rates among people with IDD. Risk is especially high among people are younger ages.

June 1, 2020

Year One

The Scruggs Scholarship is an example of how Maxwell (and Syracuse University) are working hard to make sure that successful freshmen continue.

June 1, 2020

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Bridging Strengths

With cluster and other prioritized hires, Maxwell is helping the University build research strength on topics that cross disciplines.
June 1, 2020

Carrington ’18 (MA) and Strother ’17 (PhD) piece on Confederate statues and free speech published in the Washington Post

Political science doctoral student Nathan Carrington '18 (M.A.) and  alumnus Logan Strother '19 (Ph.D.) explore ongoing debate over Confederate statues in the Washington Post article "Legally, Confederate statues in public spaces aren’t a form of free speech."
June 1, 2020

Nonparametric Tests of Tail Behavior in Stochastic Frontier Models

William C. Horrace & Yulong Wang
May 31, 2020

Labor Market Policies in a Roy-Rosen Bargaining Economy

Hugo Jales & Zhengfei Yu
May 31, 2020

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Lerner Research Affiliate Scott Landes featured in Forbes article on COVID19 related mortality among those with intellectual and developmental disabilities

Lerner Research Affiliate Scott Landes and his colleagues  found that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) have a greater chance of dying from COVID-19 than those without IDD.

May 29, 2020

Lerner Fellow Xiaoyan Zhang quoted in National Geographic story on raising resilient children during coronavirus

Lerner Fellow Xiaoyan Zhang notes the positive long term outcomes of emotionally resilient children and discusses steps caregivers can take to help strengthen children's coping skills.

May 28, 2020

Lovely weighs in on US-China trade deal targets, tensions on NPR

Professor of Economics Mary Lovely says targets for exports of farm goods, factory products, and crude oil were always going to be a stretch, and that the coronavirus pandemic has made things worse.

May 28, 2020

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