Maxwell School News and Faculty Media, Opinion and Analysis

Monnat part of team recognized for research on rural America

November 4, 2020

Monnat talks to BuzzFeed News, Vox about COVID-19, Trump voter support

"The president has been asking Americans to deny what they see happening right in front of them. People are tired. They want to see some leadership and a coordinated national coronavirus response," says Shannon Monnat, Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion.

November 2, 2020

See related: COVID-19, U.S. Elections, United States

New threats, familiar challenges: Maxwell responds to COVID-19

“The COVID pandemic is a great example of a current event that is changing every aspect of society—from how families are organized to how we deliver education and the structure of work,” says Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs Colleen Heflin.

October 30, 2020

See related: COVID-19, U.S. Education

Alumni Spotlight: MPA Alumna Works to Improve Health of America’s Families

Policy team leader Elizabeth Fomegne ’04 B.F.A/’09 M.P.A. uncovered her drive to serve the public good while interviewing prospective undergraduates for Syracuse University’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions.

October 30, 2020

See related: COVID-19, U.S. Health Policy, United States

Gadarian cited in Atlantic, New York Times articles on perceptions of Trump

"In a threatening environment, Americans reward candidates and parties perceived to hold hawkish positions" and "punish candidates perceived to be dovish," says Shana Gadarian, associate professor of political science.

October 29, 2020

See related: COVID-19, U.S. Elections, United States

Peace Corps, Fulbright evacuees find community, opportunity at Maxwell

on a Monday morning in mid-March, Jeremy Gonzalez opened his email and learned he was being immediately evacuated from his Peace Corps post in West Timor, Indonesia. Although the COVID-19 pandemic had already prompted travel restrictions around the world, his evacuation orders were sudden and frantic.

October 29, 2020

See related: COVID-19, Student Experience

Landes cited in Harvard Political Review article on disability housing, COVID-19

October 16, 2020

See related: COVID-19, Housing, IDD, United States

Banks featured in WAER piece on COVID-19 in the White House, national security

"Attention on the domestic political situation and the president’s dominance of the news and his well-being is obscuring what else might be going on in the world that should be drawing some of our attention," says William Banks, professor emeritus of public administration and international affairs.

October 9, 2020

Gadarian discusses the effect of anxiety on political behavior on KGOU

October 7, 2020

See related: COVID-19, Political Parties, United States

Thompson discusses impact of Trump's health with CNY Central, KPCC

"This is unusual in that it's part of a larger national story, it's not simply a story that a particular individual has contracted or a condition that a particular president has contracted. Its part of a pandemic," Margaret Susan Thompson, associate professor of history and political science, tells CNY Central. If the president's condition worsens to the point where his presidential authority needs to be transferred to Vice President Mike Pence, it will have a major impact on the upcoming election, she says. "If he becomes seriously ill obviously it will have an impact." Thompson was also interviewed on KPCC's "AirTalk."

October 6, 2020

See related: COVID-19, Federal, U.S. Elections, United States

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