Applications for summer and fall 2026 graduate admission are now open! ➡️ Learn more: https://bit.ly/48i2J1N Whether you're still exploring your options or ready to submit your application, we’re here to support you every step of the way. 🧡

👏 Maxwell Ph.D. candidates Nicholas D’Amico, Hannah Radner and Jingding Wang have been honored by the @apsa.bsky.social for research on global finance, elections and LGBTQ political identity. @supolisci.bsky.social

🍂 First day of fall and campus is glowing already!

🧡 Maxwell Day of Service! Staff and students weeded, planted and painted today at the Southwest Community Center. Thanks to the Maxwell Civic & Community Engagement Office for coordinating! They partnered with Home HeadQuarters, a local nonprofit, to participate in their Annual Block Blitz.

Welcome to Maxwell, Brynt Parmeter! A veteran and former Department of Defense executive, he is the Phanstiel Chair in Leadership and professor of practice in the Public Administration and International Affairs Department. Read more ➡️ bit.ly/3IlUoiS

Many low-income older adults must choose between buying groceries and paying their bills. Learn more about how budget tradeoffs shape #olderadult #foodinsecurity in the latest brief from our #SUFoodInsecuritySeries: surface.syr.edu/lerner/280/. @maxwellsu.bsky.social

Check out our new article @ plos.org one on our 1st dataset published at @maxwellsu.bsky.social's @qdr.bsky.social: "... A new dataset of 1st-person accounts of the #COVID-19 pandemic" - @sarahwillen.bsky.social Katherine A. Mason Heather Wurtz @adam42smith.bsky.social tinyurl.com/PJP-PLOS-ONE

What share of older adults in the U.S. are food insecure? It’s higher than you think, and current definitions miss a large share of food insecure older adults. Learn more about how food insecurity is measured in brief 1 of 6 from our #SUFoodInsecuritySeries: surface.syr.edu/lerner/279/.

Maxwell professor Colleen Heflin and the X Lab are partnering with @SyracuseVAMC & Instacart on a $700K study to see how access to healthy groceries improve veterans’ health over time. Read more ➡️ bit.ly/47tbR38

How does food insecurity impact breast cancer screenings? A study co-authored by Lerner Affiliate, Colleen Heflin finds that in 2021, food insecure females had lower screening rates than food secure females. Read the study: www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277... @maxwellsu.bsky.social

🚀 Generative AI is transforming the workplace—and Maxwell’s Baobao Zhang is leading the research. She’s earned an NSF CAREER Award to study its effects on productivity, satisfaction and skill growth. Read more ➡️ bit.ly/41lD3wW @supolisci.bsky.social

📢 This fall, the Maxwell School is opening a new Civic and Community Engagement (CCE) office to expand access to experiential learning for all students. With the addition of a CCE minor, more students can connect with community-based opportunities and partnerships. 🌟 Learn more: bit.ly/4lOmhOi

Big news at Maxwell! 🌟 17 faculty members have new promotions for 2025-26—including eight who earned tenure. Their research spans AI, health, history and more. Join us in congratulating them! Read more 👉 bit.ly/45ZbvzX

Advice to the Class of 2029 from Andrea-Rose Oates ’26, a policy studies major in Maxwell and @suartsciences.bsky.social and a public relations major in @newhousesu.bsky.social: ✍️ Step outside of your comfort zone ✍️ Find your people ✍️ Don’t spread yourself too thin ✍️ Be present

🍊🤗 @syracuseu.bsky.social Welcome Week kicked off today and we were excited to see so many new faces on campus!

Jody Barringer ’08 M.P.A. advised 4 presidents and helped lead the Deepwater Horizon response. Her family’s scholarship at Maxwell will support tomorrow’s public service leaders. Read more ➡️ bit.ly/3HBQzpu

Learn about the barriers that limit FPCs’ engagement w/ labor issues in this @maxwellsu.bsky.social #CPR #PolicyBrief: surface.syr.edu/cpr/503/

🌍 Maxwell will host 20 leaders from 11 countries for the first Distinguished Humphrey Fellowship on Combatting Illicit Drug Trafficking. Read more ⬇️

🤝 Maxwell Dean David Van Slyke visited Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan this summer, forging new and expanded partnerships that will bring more students and scholars from Central Asia to Maxwell, as a means to promote development in the region. Read more ⬇️

Mothers with private insurance breastfeed for longer durations than mothers with public insurance. Learn more in this new @maxwellsu.bsky.social #SULerner #PopHealth data slice: surface.syr.edu/lerner/278/

Professor @johncawley.bsky.social, a leading health economist whose research has revealed data about everything from soda taxes to menu calorie labeling, joins Maxwell as Moynihan Chair in Public Policy. @cprmaxwell.bsky.social Read more ➡️ bit.ly/4mctRmI

Prof @farhanasultana.com co-organized a Capitol Hill briefing to commemorate the anniversary of Bangladesh’s July Revolution. She and US Reps @doggett.house.gov and @repmcgovern.bsky.social were joined by staffers, journalists and members of the Bangladeshi diaspora. ➡️ Read more: bit.ly/4frVi9G

🏅 @sualums.bsky.social Elliot Stamler ’60 BA (PSc) received the Cramer Horizon Award for his lifelong commitment to democracy and philanthropy. Read more: bit.ly/3J4WPX2

“Humans have been trying to control mosquitoes for millennia,” says Lerner Affiliate, David Larsen. “Mosquito-borne diseases cause a lot of human misery around the globe. We need solutions for that.” Learn more: www.maxwell.syr.edu/news/article... @maxwellsu.bsky.social

Congrats to Professor Shannon Monnat on having been elected president of the Rural Sociological Society, a professional organization that promotes knowledge about rural people and places and seeks to enhance the quality of life and environment. Read more: bit.ly/4mlT11Y @sulernercenter.bsky.social

🙌 Congratulations to Merril Silverstein, professor and chair of sociology, who has been awarded the Sociology of Religion Distinguished Article Award for 2024. Read more: bit.ly/4ff8RZL

👏 Join us in congratulating Nell Bartkowiak on being named Maxwell's assistant dean of online programs. She will oversee the existing online EMPA program and lead the school's long-term plan to expand remote offerings. Read more 👉 bit.ly/4lQlgG3

🥳 One month until the first day of classes! We can't wait for these halls to be filled again!

🙌 We’re pleased to welcome two department chairs for the 2025-26 academic year! The Economics Department will be headed by Yoonseok Lee, professor and Melvin A. Eggers Economics Faculty Scholar, while Professor Junko Takeda will lead the History Department. bit.ly/4faaY19

Congratulations to @chrismihm.bsky.social, adjunct professor of public administration and international affairs, who has been honored with the 2025 Arnold Steigman Excellence in Teaching Award from the New York State Academy for Public Administration.

Thank you to Mayor Ben Walsh '05 MPA for discussing leadership in public management with our Mandela Washington Fellows! @syracuseu.bsky.social is in its 11th year as an institute partner for the fellowship, which is the flagship program of the Young African Leaders Initiative Network.

A new paper led by CPR Senior Research Associate, Badi Baltagi titled, "Testing for spatial lag dependence and homoskedasticity in a random effects panel data model" was published in Economics Letters. Read the paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @maxwellsu.bsky.social

👏 Congrats to Robert Rubinstein, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and professor of international relations, for his receipt of the Wasserstrom Prize for Graduate Teaching, an annual award that honors a noted professor of English at Syracuse. bit.ly/4eK3Fge

🙌 We’re pleased to share that four #MaxwellSchool faculty members have been honored as O’Hanley Faculty Scholars: Brian Brege, Sarah Hamersma, Yüksel Sezgin and Ying Shi. Learn more at the link and join us in congratulating them! bit.ly/44GwcyD

👏 Join us in congratulating Haowei Wang, assistant professor of sociology, who has been named the Yang Ni and Xiaoqing Li Scholar in U.S.-China/Asia Relations for the 2025-26 academic year. Read more 👉 bit.ly/3Gv69Tg

👋 Hey alumni! Got news? ✍️ Submit a Class Note to be included in the next issue of the Maxwell Perspective magazine: bit.ly/4eFgvfM

🙌 A warm welcome to faculty, staff and students from the Public Health Department! The addition expands Maxwell's academic offerings to include BSPH and MPH degrees and will “enhance our vital voice in the study of health,” says Dean David Van Slyke. Read more 👉 bit.ly/46vm7XW

Got an invitation from the man himself @darthputinkgb.bsky.social to talk about Putinism, so how could I say no? Esp. because his co-conspirator @katiebelarus.bsky.social is a @maxwellsu.bsky.social alum. Thanks for the invite, and the perfume.

We were excited to welcome the latest M.P.A. cohort to campus this week for their colloquium to kick off the program! Thanks to Jack Baldwin '20 M.P.A., Stephanie Pasquale '97 M.P.A. and Victoria Wright '18 M.P.A. for imparting some wisdom from alumni perspectives! 🧡

As the City of Syracuse's first director of neighborhood and business data and evaluation, Rose Tardiff ’15 B.A. (Geog) leads a team responsible for bringing innovation to operations. ⬇️ Read more from our Perspective magazine feature on innovative @sualums.bsky.social: bit.ly/3I6S3HZ

Maxwell faculty and students were delighted to participate in @pmra-1991.bsky.social's #PMRC2025 held at Seoul National University in Korea. Congrats to all the presenters and attendees!

One of several @sualums.bsky.social profiled in our latest Perspective magazine, Rain Henderson ‘00 B.A. (IR)/’01 M.P.A. told us Maxwell taught her how to “mobilize people and policy toward meaningful outcomes.” ➡️ Read more: bit.ly/3ImNzNs

Derek Wallace ’00 B.A. is the CEO of Golden Fork Media and a co-founder of Kalamata’s Kitchen, an educational multimedia company that helps kids expand their palates while encouraging empathy and understanding. ➡️ Read more about Derek's @sualums.bsky.social story: bit.ly/3TNpAtg

🍊 Paulo De Miranda ’00 M.A. (PA) was recognized with the @sualums.bsky.social 2024 alumni entrepreneur of the year award and is the co-founder of the Brazilian startup, DEEP. ⬇️ Read more about Paulo's story: bit.ly/44tAqd5

🏀 Former @syracuseu.bsky.social point guard Raquel McNabb ’99 M.P.A. is still creating scoring opportunities. She's the co-founder and executive director of the Caris Sports Foundation, which has helped nearly 500 young athletes throughout Arizona. ➡️ Read the full story: bit.ly/4nkXzXN

🥳 The Spring 2025 issue of Perspective magazine is here! It highlights alumni who are harnessing entrepreneurial skills to address challenges and provide opportunity. Watch your mailboxes for the issue or read it online: bit.ly/44nodXm

🏆Congrats to Denisa Jashari, assistant professor of history, for receiving the Sturgis Leavitt Award from the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies for an article she published in the Journal of Latin American Studies! Read more ➡️ bit.ly/3TCsjpl

Just in time for #UNPublicServiceDay, Dean David M. Van Slyke writes to alumni about the challenges of the changing federal landscape and the importance of public service. ⬇️

🚨 New book alert 🚨 check out the latest from SU @maxwellsu.bsky.social prof @ryan-griffiths.bsky.social!