Maxwell School News and Commentary

Public Housing Violence Research Earns Top Honor

Madeleine ‘Maddy’ Hamlin, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in geography at the Maxwell School, was one of 8 doctoral students to have been named an H.F. Guggenheim Emerging Scholar. The $25,000 award supports and recognizes promising graduate-student researchers in their final year of writing a doctoral dissertation.
October 20, 2021

See related: Awards & Honors, Crime & Violence, Housing, Student Experience

Syracuse Mayoral Candidates to Debate on Campbell Conversations

Grant Reeher, director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute, will moderate a debate between Syracuse's mayoral candidates: incumbent Ben Walsh, an independent who is running on the Independence Party line, the Democratic Party nominee Khalid Bey, and the Republican nominee, Janet Burman.
October 20, 2021

See related: Elections, New York State, State & Local

Grant Reeher Quoted in Newsweek on Retiring Congress Members

Representative Mike Doyle, a Pennsylvania Democrat, and Representative David Price, a North Carolina Democrat, announced that they would not seek reelection. Professor Grant Reeher expects each seat to remain blue.
October 19, 2021

See related: Congress, Government, United States

Amit Sanyal awarded grant to study the integration of autonomous systems in wildland fire management

This National Science Foundation funded project will focus on autonomous unmanned aerial systems to perform wildfire monitoring in hazardous environments.

October 19, 2021

See related: Autonomous Systems, Grant Awards, United States, Wildfires

Krista Kennedy expands her work on data surveillance, algorithms and wearable devices

Krista Kennedy, Noah Wilson, Charlotte Tschider

This study explores algorithmic opacity in smart hearing aids, examines data surveillance disclosures and positions findings within relevant legal contexts.

October 19, 2021

See related: Autonomous Systems, Data Privacy

Bei Yu and co-authors publish study on exaggerated claims in press releases about health research

Bei Yu, Jun Wang, Lu Guo, Yingya Li
The result of an NSF-funded project, the authors propose a Natural Language Processing approach to identify when press releases overstate causal claims for research that was originally observational and designed to establish correlational findings.
October 19, 2021

In Memoriam: Vernon L. Greene, Pioneer in the Study of Aging

Professor Emeritus of Public Administration and International Affairs Vernon Greene, who passed away on October 10 at the age of 77, saw the aging process as much more than a person getting old, and his vision helped build Syracuse University’s reputation as a national leader in gerontology, home of the Aging Studies Institute (ASI) and the Center for Aging and Policy Studies (CAPS).
October 19, 2021

See related: Aging, In Memoriam

ASPI faculty awarded for research on using machine learning for early detection of Alzheimer’s

Syracuse University/Upstate Medical University research proposes using MRI images to help early detection efforts before symptoms appear.
October 19, 2021

See related: Autonomous Systems, Awards & Honors, Health Policy

Johannes Himmelreich Named to Syracuse Surveillance Technology Work Group

Himmelreich, assistant professor of public administration and international affairs, is one of five community members named to the group that Syracuse Mayor Walsh says will ensure “surveillance tools are implemented in a safe and well-governed way.”
October 11, 2021

See related: Autonomous Systems, Promotions & Appointments, State & Local

In Governing, Gadarian Discusses Vaccines' Polarizing Effect

From the very start of the pandemic, people’s willingness to change their behavior—for instance, by washing their hands more or staying home—has been determined more by partisanship than any other factor, including age, race or geography, says Gadarian, professor and chair of political science.
October 8, 2021

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

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