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Low-Cost Tool in Fight Against Childhood Obesity: Water Dispensers in Schools
Making water more available in New York City public schools through self-serve water dispensers in cafeterias resulted in small鈥攂ut statistically significant鈥攄eclines in students鈥 weight, according to new findings. The study, published Jan. 19 in the online issue of JAMA Pediatrics,…
Less Berlin, more Brussels, and more like the United States — A conversation with Glyn Morgan
Associate Professor Glyn Morgan is interviewed by EU Visions on the Greek debt crisis and the refugee crisis in Europe.
D’Amico Appointed to Screening Committee for Fulbright-Clinton Fellowships
Francine D鈥橝mico, associate professor of international relations at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, has been appointed to the national screening committee for the Fulbright-Clinton Fellowships. The committee, comprised of area specialists and authorities in various fields, will…
Maxwell Students Travel to Rome for Unique Food Security Class
On Friday, Dec. 11, 25 Maxwell School graduate students in international relations, public administration and public diplomacy will hold the final session in a one-of-a-kind, short-term class titled “Food Security and Policy.” They will reflect on a Thanksgiving-break class trip…
Members Appointed to Maxwell, VPA Dean Search Committees
Members of two search committees have been appointed to identify candidates to succeed the deans of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the College of Visual and Performing Arts. The committees will be seeking successors to Dean…
Maxwell Associate Dean, Doctoral Student Author IBM Report on Improving Defense Acquisition
On Tuesday, Nov. 10, the IBM Center for the Business of Government will issue a report called 鈥淏eyond Business as Usual: Improving Defense Acquisition through Better Buying Power鈥 that was jointly authored by Maxwell School Associate Dean David Van Slyke…
American Enterprise Institute President to Speak on ‘Abundance without Attachment’
Arthur C. Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute and former Louis A. Bantle Professor of Business and Government at the Maxwell School, will speak on 鈥淎bundance without Attachment鈥 Thursday, Nov. 12, at 4:30 p.m. in the Strasser Legacy Room,…
Inaugural Thompson Scholars Named
The Maxwell School has named two graduate students in public administration and international affairs as the inaugural Jean and Dick Thompson Graduate Scholars. The Jean and Dick Thompson Endowed Graduate Scholarship was established in the spring of 2015 by the…
Maxwell School Names Inaugural Tenth Decade Faculty Scholars
Dean James B. Steinberg has announced the creation of a new faculty award, the Maxwell School Tenth Decade Faculty Scholar, to recognize and encourage excellence in citizenship teaching, research and public engagement at the Maxwell School. Three current Maxwell School…
Keck Leads NSF-Funded Study of Global Free Speech
Thomas M. Keck, Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics at the Maxwell School, will spend the next three years studying who benefits from court decisions enforcing constitutional free speech norms around the globe. Over the summer, Keck…