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Office of Personnel Management Director to Visit Maxwell John Berry, the new Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), will spend two days at the Maxwell School next week, including delivering a policy address titled "A Merit System for the 21st Century?" on Monday, November 2, at 4 p.m. in Maxwell Auditorium.
Maxwell School's Campbell Institute of Public Affairs Names New Director Dean Mitchel Wallerstein announced today that Professor Grant Reeher has been named the new director of the Maxwell School’s Alan K. Campbell Public Affairs Institute.
Maxwell School Professor Leonard Lopoo Receives National Institutes of Health Grant as Part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $70,337 grant to Leonard Lopoo, associate professor of public administration at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, for his project titled “The Health Consequences of Teenage Childbearing.”
Maxwell School Professor Alison Mountz Receives National Science Foundation Career Grant. Alison Mountz has been awarded a five year, $428,271 National Science Foundation Career Grant titled “Geographies of Sovereignty: Global Migration, Legality, and the Island Index.” Mountz has just been promoted to Associate Professor of Geography at the Maxwell School and her grant will be used to study island detention centers off the shores of North America, Europe, and Australia.
New endowed professorship at Maxwell School underscores commitment to the Korean peninsula. Dean Mitchel Wallerstein has announced the establishment of a new, endowed professorship in the Maxwell School to promote research on issues related to the Korean Peninsula and its eventual reunification. The first occupant of the Donald P. and Margaret Curry Gregg Professorship will be professor of political science and international relations Stuart J. Thorson.
Leading Tax Policy Expert to Join Maxwell School. Nationally recognized tax policy and public finance expert Leonard E. Burman has been named the first holder of the Maxwell School’s Daniel Patrick Moynihan Chair in Public Affairs, effective August 24.
Maxwell Welcomes Senior Military and Civilian Leaders for Program. More than 50 senior military and civilian leaders from both the public and private sectors are in residence at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University for the 2009 National Security Management Course, “Unprecedented Times – Unparalleled Importance.”
Three Maxwell School Faculty Members Receive Awards. History professor Dennis Romano will become the inaugural Montgomery-Gruber professor. The Michael O. Sawyer Chair in Constitutional Law and Politics will be filled by political science associate professor Thomas M. Keck. And the annual Daniel Patrick Moynihan Award for Teaching and Research goes to Leonard M. Lopoo, assistant professor of public administration.
News from the Maxwell School’s Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts. Maxwell School Dean Mitchel Wallerstein has announced several developments concerning the School’s Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts (PARC), an internationally recognized center that for more than 20 years has trained faculty, researchers, and practitioners from around the world.
"Arabs Gone Wild" Comedy Show Comes to University. The stand-up comedy show "Arabs Gone Wild," featuring four accomplished Arab-American comedians, will be held in Grant Auditorium on the SU campus on Friday, April 3, from 8-10 p.m. The event, which is free and open to the public, will explore culture, race and politics through humor. It is part of the international symposium “Old and New Media, and the Changing Faces of Islam” to be held on April 2 and 3 at the Maxwell School.
Professor Walter Broadnax Receives Distinguished Public Service Award. Walter Broadnax, distinguished professor of public administration at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, has received the American Society for Public Administration’s (ASPA) 2009 Elmer Staats Lifetime Achievement for Distinguished Public Service Award. The honor recognizes a public administrator’s career accomplishments and contributions to the public service and to ASPA over a lifetime.
Former U.S. Ambassador and Former Director of the World Food Program Will Lead Maxwell School Issues Symposium on America’s Role in the World. Two members of the faculty from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, along with student representatives of the College Republicans and College Democrats, will discuss and debate “America’s Role in the World” during a symposium on Tuesday, October 28, beginning at 6:00 p.m. in Maxwell Auditorium.
Maxwell School to Present Two Presidential Election Issues Symposia. Faculty from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, along with student representatives of the College Republicans and College Democrats, will discuss pressing election issues during two upcoming symposia – on Tuesday, October 21, and Tuesday, October 28, beginning at 6:00 p.m.
Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper. Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper, is the new exhibit at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., curated by Maxwell School associate professor of history Chris R. Kyle.
Walter D. Broadnax Named Distinguished Professor of Public Administration. The Maxwell School of Syracuse University announced today that Walter D. Broadnax has been appointed distinguished professor of public administration. Broadnax is a scholar, instructor, administrator, and public policy expert, whose distinguished career spans four decades. He has served in executive-level positions both in academia and in government at the local, state, and federal levels.
Distinguished Professor of Public Administration, Rosemary O’Leary, Named to New Maxwell School Chair. Rosemary O’Leary has been named the inaugural occupant of the Howard and Louise Phanstiel Chair in Strategic Management and Leadership. The Phanstiel Chair was established by a $5 million gift from Maxwell School Advisory Board Member Howard Phanstiel and his wife, Louise; Phanstiel also sits on the Syracuse University’s Board of Trustees.
Maxwell School Professor Selected to Head Prominent Washington Think Tank. Arthur C. Brooks, professor of public administration at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, has been chosen to head the prestigious American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC, beginning January 1, 2009. Brooks, who is currently the Louis A. Bantle Professor of Business and Government Policy, has been a member of the Maxwell School faculty since 2001.
Maxwell School’s International Relations Program Names New Chair. Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs announced today that it has chosen Ambassador Donald Planty as the next leader of its International Relations program. Ambassador Planty, a native of Lowville, New York, will assume his new role effective August 2008.
Professor Catherine Bertini to Moderate Panel at First Annual Meeting of the Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva, Switzerland. Professor Catherine Bertini, who was named a founding member of the board of the Global Humanitarian Forum by former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan last fall, will participate in the first annual Forum meeting on June 24-25 in Geneva, Switzerland. Bertini is the former director of the U.N.’s World Food Programme and an international expert on food security issues.
Maxwell's Policy Analysis and Public Management Training Program Taking Place in India and South Korea. Maxwell’s Executive Education Program and the Center for Public Policy at IIM Bangalore recently welcomed 114 Indian Administrative Service officers to an 8-week policy analysis and public management training program taking place in India and South Korea.
Maxwell School Again Named #1 Graduate School of Public Affairs by U.S. News & World Report. For the fifth consecutive time, the Maxwell School of Syracuse University sits atop U.S. News and World Report’s rankings of graduate schools of public affairs, ahead of such prominent institutions as Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School, Indiana University, and the University of Georgia. Maxwell has held the number-one spot since the rankings category was created in 1995.
Nursing home study finds that short-term care is on the rise in New York State. A new report on New York State nursing homes finds that short-term stays in these facilities have tripled in the past decade, and residents are increasingly more cognitively impaired. The study, titled “Changes in Nursing Home Care, 1996-2005: New York State,” was conducted by Public Administration professor of practice Tom Dennison and looks at the changing role of nursing homes as a part of the medical care delivery system since the mid ‘90s.
Maxwell School Hosts 20 Emerging Leaders from Middle East. Twenty emerging leaders from 12 countries in the Middle East arrived at the Maxwell School March 17 as part of the Leaders for Democracy Fellows program funded by the U.S. Department of State's Middle East Partnership Initiative. The program, now in its second year with plans for a third under way, brings these individuals to the United States for a six-week fellowship at the Maxwell School to study the foundations of democracy before participating in six-week internships in Washington, D.C.
INSCT Faculty Members Publish Book. Syracuse University’s Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT) has released its first full-length book, Combating Terrorism: Strategies and Approaches, co-authored by William Banks, professor of law and public administration and director of INSCT; Renee de Nevers, professor of public administration; and Mitchel Wallerstein, professor of political science and public administration and dean of the Maxwell School.
Bertini Joins Global Humanitarian Forum. Catherine Bertini, professor of public administration, has been named as a founding board member of the new Global Humanitarian Forum launched by former Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan on October 17, 2007.
Maxwell Receives $5-Million Gift in Honor of Daniel Patrick Moynihan. The Maxwell School of Syracuse University has received a $5-million gift from the New York City-based Leon Levy Foundation to establish the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Chair in Public Policy, in honor of the late distinguished scholar and U.S. Senator from New York.
School Establishes New Chair, Funded by Advisory Board. Mitchel Wallerstein, dean of the Maxwell School, announced the establishment of a new endowed chair made possible through the philanthropy of the members of the Maxwell Advisory Board. The inaugural occupant will be Distinguished Professor of Public Administration Rosemary O’Leary.
Fiscal Wake-Up Tour Visits Maxwell April 4. The Maxwell School will host a forum on the nation’s budget problems, featuring the Fiscal Wake-Up Tour, a joint public engagement initiative of the Concord Coalition (a nonpartisan grassroots organization), the Brookings Institution, and the Heritage Foundation. Experts will include David Walker, Comptroller General of the United States, and Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition. They will be joined by two Washington think-tank experts: Isabel Sawhill of the Brookings Institution and Alison Fraser of the Heritage Foundation.
Maxwell Will Train Senior Policy Officials in India. The Maxwell School’s Executive Education Program has been awarded a three-year, multi-million-dollar contract by the Government of India to design and deliver public policy analysis training to senior officers in the elite Indian Administrative Service (IAS).
Maxwell and Newhouse Offer Public Diplomacy Degree. Two of Syracuse University's most renowned schools have teamed to create a new dual master's degree program in public diplomacy, combining elements of international relations and communications. Syracuse is one of only two universities to offer such a program.