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New Research Examines Echo Chambers and Political Attitudes on Social Media
What is the role of social media in shaping our political attitudes? New research published in Nature sets out to understand whether and how the information people see on social media shapes their political views. Entitled 鈥淟ike-minded Sources on Facebook…
Tessa Murphy鈥檚 鈥楥reole Archipelago鈥 Garners Elsa Goveia Book Prize and 2022 Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize
Tessa Murphy, associate professor of history in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, has received two new prizes for her first book, 鈥淭he Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean鈥 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021). These…
Maxwell’s Michael Williams Honored With NATO-Fulbright Security Studies Award
Michael Williams, associate professor of public administration and international affairs and director of the master of arts in international relations program in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, has received a Fulbright-North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Security Studies…
Margarita Est茅vez-Abe Named McClure Professor of Teaching Excellence
Margarita Est茅vez-Abe, associate professor of political science and O鈥橦anley Faculty Scholar, has been named the Robert D. McClure Professor of Teaching Excellence. Established in 2016, the McClure Professorship supports teaching excellence and research and is awarded for a three-year term….
Curiosity Helps Ryan Smith ’92 Transition From Lawyer to ESPN Anchor and Television Reporter
Life is not a straight line but a long, meandering path with many different stops along the way. Take the case of Ryan Smith 鈥92. As a child, Smith had his life mapped out. His hometown Philadelphia Phillies were his…
Maxwell Professor Farhana Sultana Addresses European Parliament
Farhana Sultana, professor of geography and the environment, was an invited speaker at the 2023 Beyond Growth conference hosted by the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium. The conference, held over three days in May, featured a diverse mix of 150…
Junko Takeda and Merril Silverstein Named Chairs at Maxwell School
Two Maxwell School faculty members have been appointed department chairs: Junko Takeda and Merril Silverstein. Takeda, professor of history and Daicoff Faculty Scholar, was named interim chair of the Citizenship and Civic Engagement Undergraduate Program. She fills the vacancy left…
Professor, Graduate Student to Examine Impact of Food Assistance on Maternal and Infant Health
Sarah Hamersma, associate professor of public administration and international affairs, and graduate student Mitch McFarlane, have received a $75,000 grant from Tufts University to support their examination of the impacts of food assistance on maternal and infant health. The funding…
Maria Zhu Awarded the 2023 Montonna Fund Award
Maria Zhu, assistant professor of economics and senior research associate in the Center for Policy Research in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, has received this year鈥檚 award from the Ralph E. Montonna Endowed Fund for the Teaching…
A Blueprint for Engaged Humanities: Maggie Sardino Featured in Humanities for All
Recent graduate Maggie Sardino 鈥23 authored an article,聽Discovering My Passion for Public Arts & Humanities, featured recently in聽Humanities for All, an online initiative of the National Humanities Alliance (NHA) Foundation highlighting higher ed-based humanities projects. She graduated in May 2023…