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ML Platforms Can Contradict Dairy Scientists, Feed Firm Websites Regarding Dairy Cattle Performance

Siobhan O'Keefe, Rick Welsh, Mercy Oppong, Ryan Fitzgerald, David Conner, Michelle Tynan, Nichole Price, Charlotte Quigle

“Machine Learning (ML) Platforms Can Contradict Dairy Scientists and Feed Firm Websites Regarding Dairy Cattle Performance from Feeding Seaweed Supplements,” co-authored by Professor of Sociology Rick Welsh, was published in Choices.

September 3, 2024

Research Insights on Population Health Inspire Policy Change

Maxwell's Policy, Place, and Population Health (P3H) Lab investigates the connection between state policies, local conditions, and health and mortality in the United States.

August 29, 2024

NSF Awards Saba Siddiki, Fellow Researchers, $1.5 Million to Study Bus Fleet Electrification

The team hopes to develop tools for effective and data-driven decision making and to assess collaborative governance in public bus fleet electrification. 

August 28, 2024

Institutional fit and policy design in water governance: Nebraska's Natural Resources Districts

Tomás Olivier, Sechindra Vallury
"Institutional fit and policy design in water governance: Nebraska's Natural Resources Districts," co-authored by Tomás Olivier, Senior Research Associate at the Center for Policy Design and Governance and the Center for Policy Research, and Sechindra Vallury, was published in Policy Studies Journal.
August 19, 2024

Maxwell School Announces Two New Chairs and Trio of Directors for 2024-25

Several Maxwell School faculty have been promoted to leadership roles, including Junko Takeda, who has been named chair of the Citizenship and Civic Engagement (CCE) Undergraduate Program after serving in an interim role since July 2023, and Leonard M. Lopoo, who began as chair of the Public Administration and International Affairs Department in July 2024. 

August 9, 2024

Logical interdependencies in infrastructure

David J. Yu, Hoon C. Shin, Tomás Olivier, Margaret Garcia, Sara Meerow, Jeryang Park
"Logical interdependencies in infrastructure: What are they, how to identify them, and what do they mean for infrastructure risk analysis?," co-authored by David J. Yu, Hoon C. Shin, Tomás Olivier, Senior Research Associate at the Center for Policy Design and Governance and the Center for Policy Research, Margaret Garcia, Sara Meerow, and Jeryang Park, was published in Risk Analysis.
August 6, 2024

David Popp Co-Chairs National Academy of Sciences Committee

The group is, among other things, studying how two programs offered by the Department of Energy stimulate innovation and engage with small businesses.

August 5, 2024

Maxwell School 2024-25 Faculty Promotions Include Four Tenure Appointments

Edwin Ackerman, Marc Garcia, Timur Hammond and Alex Rothenberg have been promoted to associate professor.

August 1, 2024

Participating in Childcare Subsidy Programs Increases Employment and Annual Earnings for Parents

William Clay Fannin, Colleen Heflin, Taryn Morrissey, Siobhan O’Keefe
This brief describes associations between childcare subsidy program participation and household employment and earnings outcomes among low-income families in Virginia. 
July 31, 2024

Pains of privacy: Mapping carceral practices onto electronic monitoring

Gabriela Kirk-Werner

“Pains of privacy: Mapping carceral practices onto electronic monitoring,” authored by Assistant Professor of Sociology Gabriela Kirk-Werner, was published in Theoretical Criminology.

July 17, 2024

See related: Crime & Violence

Getting the Right Tail Right: Modeling Tails of Health Expenditure Distributions

Martin Karlsson, Yulong Wang, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

“Getting the Right Tail Right: Modeling Tails of Health Expenditure Distributions,” co-authored by Associate Professor of Economics Yulong Wang, was published in the Journal of Health Economics.

July 15, 2024

See related: Research Methods

Rural and Small-Town America: Context, Composition, and Complexities

Shannon M. Monnat, Tim Slack

Professor of sociology and Lerner Chair in Public Health Promotion and Population Health, Shannon M. Monnat, and co-author Tim Slack, professor of sociology at Louisiana State University, share lessons offered from rural society and confront common myths and misunderstandings about rural people and places. Their main premise—rural America is not monolithic.

July 3, 2024

See related: Rural Issues, United States

Characteristics Associated with COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among US Working-Age Adults

Xue Zhang, Shannon M. Monnat

“Watchful, skeptics, and system distrusters: Characteristics associated with different types of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among U.S. working-age adults,” co-authored by Professor of Sociology Shannon Monnat, was published in Vaccine.

July 2, 2024

Earnings and Employment Patterns Following Child-Care Subsidy Receipt

W. Clay Fannin, Colleen Heflin, Taryn Morrissey
“Earnings and Employment Patterns Following Child-Care Subsidy Receipt,” co-authored by Colleen Heflin, professor of public administration and international affairs, and Ph.D. student W. Clay Fannin, was published in Social Service Review.
July 1, 2024

Understanding the Emergence of Computational Institutional Science

Nicholas Oesterling, Graham Ambrose, Jiho Kim
"Understanding the Emergence of Computational Institutional Science: A Review of Computational Modeling of Institutions and Institutional Dynamics," co-authored by Nicholas Oesterling, Graduate Research Associate for the Center for Policy Design and Governance and the Center for Policy Research, Graham Ambrose, Graduate Research Associate for the Center for Policy Design and Governance and the Center for Policy Research, and Jiho Kim, Graduate Research Associate for the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration, was published in the International Journal of the Commons.
June 21, 2024

See related: Research Methods

Fairchild Receives Mellon Foundation Grant for Project Focused on Pandemic Backlash, Public Health

The educational and research resource will create “new, urgently needed, accessible opportunities for the humanities to speak to public health and broaden access to humanities higher learning opportunities,” says Professor Amy Fairchild, who is principal investigator (PI).

June 12, 2024

Ying Shi Named William T. Grant Scholar for Research on School Victimization

The Maxwell School assistant professor will conduct two studies on school victimization and hate crimes toward Asian American and Pacific Islander students.

June 10, 2024

Evaluating conflict in collaborative environmental governance

Graham Ambrose, Jangmin Kim, Saba Siddiki
"Evaluating conflict in collaborative environmental governance: A study of environmental justice councils," co-authored by Graham Ambrose, Graduate Research Associate for the Center for Policy Design and Governance and the Center for Policy Research, and Saba Siddiki, director of the Center for Policy Design and Governance, was published in the Review of Policy Research.
June 6, 2024

See related: Environment, United States

Understanding policy evolution using institutional grammar

Graham Ambrose, Myriam Gregoire-Zawilski, Saba Siddiki, Nicholas Oesterling
"Understanding policy evolution using institutional grammar: net metering policies in the United States," co-authored by Graham Ambrose, Graduate Research Associate for the Center for Policy Design and Governance and the Center for Policy Research, Myriam Gregoire-Zawilski, Graduate Research Associate for the Center for Policy Research, Saba Siddiki, director of the Center for Policy Design and Governance, and Nicholas Oesterling, Graduate Research Associate for the Center for Policy Design and Governance and the Center for Policy Research, was published in Policy Design and Practice.
June 6, 2024

See related: Energy, United States

A policy design perspective on electricity rates

Nicholas Oesterling
"A policy design perspective on electricity rates," authored by Nicholas Oesterling, Graduate Research Associate for the Center for Policy Design and Governance and the Center for Policy Research, was published in Policy Design and Practice.
June 6, 2024

See related: Energy, United States

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