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University to host two-day conference on urban revitalization
Speakers, workshops will focus on urban transformations through art and design A conference on “Urban Revitalization: Transformations through Art and Design” will be held Friday and Saturday, Oct. 28 and 29, at the Warehouse Auditorium, 360 W. Fayette St. The…
Ondrich researching connection between housing values, retirement
Jan Ondrich, professor of economics in the Maxwell School, will conduct research into how housing values affect retirement decisions, particularly in the context of the Great Recession.
Maxwell’s Wilmoth, London to study intersection of veterans benefits, disability insurance
Sociology professors Janet Wilmoth and Andrew London of the Maxwell School plan to study how veterans’ collection of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) disability compensation is related to use of Social Security Disability Insurance (DI). The two received an $85,817…
Engelhardt to study impact of Vietnam-era military service on Social Security
Gary Engelhardt, professor of economics in the Maxwell School, received an $89,160 grant to assess the overall impact of Vietnam-era military service on Social Security’s Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI) benefits and retirement income. The project, “The Impact of…
Maxwell School to establish Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics
The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs has announced that it has received a major gift from Robert B. Menschel to establish the Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics at the school, in recognition of Volcker’s exceptional accomplishments and…
Maxwell School’s Transnational NGO Initiative to host leadership institute
Leaders from a range of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) will converge at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University Sept. 14-20 to attend the inaugural Transnational NGO Leadership Institute 2011, which will prepare participants to take the…
IJPM announces lectures by Supreme Court journalist Lyle Denniston
The Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics and the Media (IJPM) at Syracuse University will recognize Constitution Day (Sept. 17) with a public lecture on “The Dynamism and Activism of the Roberts Court” by SCOTUSblog writer Lyle Denniston….
INSCT welcomes inaugural U.S Army War College Fellow
The Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT), a joint academic research center at the Syracuse University College of Law and Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, welcomes its first U.S. Army War College Fellow, Col. Geoffrey D. Stevens….
Public Management Research Conference returns to Syracuse 20 years after its beginning at the Maxwell School
The 11th biennial Public Management Research Conference sponsored by the Public Management Research Association will be hosted by the Maxwell School of Syracuse University from June 2-4. The conference, originally established by two Maxwell faculty members in 1991, has been…
Syracuse University scholars launch Journal of Public Diplomacy
The Association of Public Diplomacy Scholars launched Exchange: The Journal of Public Diplomacy.