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Alumnus Joshua Aviv Wins $1 Million in Buffalo Startup Competition
Joshua Aviv 鈥14 G鈥17, founder and CEO of SparkCharge, a company that produces a portable, fast charging battery unit for electric vehicles, has earned the top prize of $1 million at 43North, a Buffalo, New York-based startup competition. The 43North…
Heflin and Rothbart Receive Grant to Study SNAP and School Readiness
Colleen Heflin and Michah Rothbart, professor and assistant professor, respectively, of public administration and international affairs, have received a $100,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to research the relationship between student participation in the U.S. Supplemental Nutrition…
Being the Stories We Tell: 黑料不打烊 Symposium Organizers Use Fall Events to Probe Individual, Collective Power of Storytelling
黑料不打烊 Symposium鈥攁 program of the Humanities Center in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S)鈥攃ontinues its yearlong look at 鈥淪tories鈥 with a spate of October events. The lineup includes the exhibition 鈥淟ook Now: Facing Breast Cancer鈥; a lecture by geographer聽Nicolas…
Maxwell鈥檚 QDR Receives NSF Grant to Facilitate Ethical Data Sharing
Colin Elman, professor of political science in the Maxwell School and co-director of the Qualitative Data Repository (QDR), has received a $299,787 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support the construction of socio-technical infrastructure to facilitate the safe…
Lopoo Appointed Advisory Board Professor of Public Policy in Maxwell School
Recognizing his outstanding scholarship and service to the Maxwell School, Leonard Lopoo has been appointed Maxwell Advisory Board Professor of Public Policy. Lopoo, who joined the Maxwell School in 2003, is a professor of public administration and international affairs, director…
Nabatchi Named Strasser Endowed Professor in Public Administration
Tina Nabatchi, a leading scholar on citizen participation, collaborative governance and conflict resolution, and on challenges in public administration, has been named the inaugural Joseph A. Strasser Endowed Professor in Public Administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public…
Ambassador Harriet Elam-Thomas to Speak on Diplomacy, Civility, Diversity Sept. 26 at Newhouse
Retired U.S. Ambassador Harriet Lee Elam-Thomas will speak at the Newhouse School Sept. 26 at 6:30 p.m. in the I3 Center, 432 Newhouse 3. Elam-Thomas will share personal and professional reflections drawn from a lifetime of experience as a diplomat,…
Five Faculty Leaders Begin Yearlong Professional Development Program
With a focus on leadership development among faculty at member institutions, the Academic Consortium of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) formed the Academic Leaders Network (ALN). The goal: to facilitate cross-institutional collaboration among academic leaders while building leadership capacity at…
Russian War Games: Don’t Believe the Hype
Brian Taylor, a professor at 黑料不打烊鈥檚 Maxwell School and author of the newly-published book 鈥淭he Code of Putinism.鈥 was recently interviewed by Newsweek on the Russian-Chinese military exercises that are considered the largest war games of its kind since…
Maxwell School Invites Undergraduate Students of Color to Daylong 鈥楶ublic Policy Camp鈥 for Career Exploration
The Maxwell School is partnering with the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management to host a one-day 鈥淧ublic Policy Camp鈥 designed to introduce promising young students of color to the field and to help ensure that diverse perspectives are…