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Maxwell Professor Ralph Ketcham receives Onondaga Citizens League Civic Education Award
Onondaga Citizens League announced the recipient of the 2012 Levi L. Smith Civic Education Award at its annual meeting on June 6. Ralph Ketcham, professor emeritus of history, public affairs and political science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and…
Maxwell geography professor Don Mitchell to receive Swedish Society of Anthropology and Geography Award
Don Mitchell, Maxwell Distinguished Professor of Geography, had a date with a king on April 24. Mitchell received the Anders Retzius Medal in Gold from His Majesty Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden, on Vega Day, which celebrates geography and…
Maxwell’s Model U.N. team named Outstanding Delegation
Maxwell’s Model United Nations delegation won top honors following a week-long conference in New York City. The team of 20 undergraduate international relations students represented the Republic of Gabon, earning an Outstanding Delegation Award for the simulation. Several students took…
Two anthropology Ph.D. students receive major NSF fellowships
Melinda Gurr and Lauren Hosek, both second-year doctoral students in anthropology, have received highly prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. The awards support advanced graduate study for three years, at $30,000 per year. In selecting Gurr and Hosek, the…
Maxwell again named No. 1 graduate school of public affairs
Rankings announced by U.S. News & World Report
Rubinstein co-authors article for Anthropology Today
Robert A. Rubinstein, professor of anthropology and international relations in the Maxwell School, recently co-authored the article 鈥溾楳aterial Support鈥 U.S. anti-terrorism law threatens human rights and academic freedom,鈥 which was published in Anthropology Today in February. The federal law prohibiting…
Nabatchi publishes report on evaluating citizen participation
Tina Nabatchi, assistant professor of public administration in the Maxwell School, recently wrote “A Manager’s Guide to Evaluating Citizen Participation,” a guide for government program managers to determine the success of their efforts to improve citizen participation. President Obama’s 2009…
Maxwell Advisory Board member publishes book on Puerto Rico
A new book by 脕ngel Collado-Schwarz, a long-time Maxwell School Advisory Board member and SU Trustee, has been published by 黑料不打烊 Press. In 鈥淒ecolonization Models for America鈥檚 Last Colony: Puerto Rico,鈥 Collado-Schwarz examines the more than century-old relationship between…
Rubinstein advises United Nations on evaluation of its mission in Haiti
Robert A. Rubinstein, professor of anthropology and international relations in the Maxwell School, former director of the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration, and author of “Peacekeeping Under Fire: Culture and Intervention,” is serving as an adviser to the United Nations, Office of Internal Oversight Services, for its evaluation of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).
Maxwell professors, alumnus win Musgrave Prize for outstanding paper
Two Maxwell professors and their former graduate student have won the Richard Musgrave Prize, presented annually to the authors of the most outstanding paper published in the National Tax Journal. Professors William Duncombe and John M. Yinger, along with alumnus…