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Purser cited in Albany Times Union article on state dairy worker injuries
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Alex Lynch '16 BA (PSc/CCE) featured in local media for CCE project
Alex Lynch '16 B.A. (PSc/CCE) proposed bringing more security cameras to the city streets around the University to make the area safer for current students, as his research revealed that 82% of students do not feel safe off campus. Lynch raised $94,000 from landlords and student associations to buy and install security cameras in a heavily populated student neighborhood and proposed eight sites for cameras to be installed, with the majority to be placed on Euclid Avenue.
Monmonier quoted in Smithsonian article on history of maps
“No map entirely tells the truth,” says Distinguished Professor of Geography Mark Monmonier. “There’s always some distortion, some point of view.”
Maxwell School honors new graduates at 2017 MPA Convocation
Reeher discusses Trump's energy proposals in Washington Examiner
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.
Elizabeth Cohen comments on revised travel ban in Boston Herald
Huber interviewed by TIME about the recent Southwest heatwave
"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."
Banks weighs in on Jeh Johnson testimony on Bloomberg Law
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.