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Growing up in Poughkeepsie in the Hudson River Valley region, Anna Zoodsma enjoyed foraging for berries with her father, cooking and baking, and “being creative with food.” When she started working on farms after graduating from high school, she was…

The rich history of global African scholarship at ���ϲ����� dates back to the 1960s. During the height of the civil rights movement, ���ϲ����� became home to a vibrant African studies program with professors teaching courses on global African history….

Shana Kushner Gadarian has been named the inaugural Merle Goldberg Fabian Professor of Excellence in Citizenship and Critical Thinking, a position funded with a generous gift by its namesake. Inspired by her own experiences with “the best professors,” alumna Merle…

When the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs opened in 1924, it included a citizenship curriculum for all undergraduates in the liberal arts. Thirty years later, Merle Goldberg traveled from her home in Maryland to ���ϲ�����, hoping for…

The legacy of ���ϲ����� alumnus Charles Vert Willie G’57, H’92 will forever be tied to that of his friend Martin Luther King Jr., making Willie’s passing a week before MLK Day 2022 especially poignant. Willie, who died on Jan….

Catherine Herrold, associate professor of public administration and international affairs in the Maxwell School, has been awarded the Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Book Prize for her book, “Delta Democracy: Pathways to Incremental Civic Revolution in Egypt and Beyond” (Oxford University…

The Lead Pipe and Paint Action Plan aims to replace the nation’s lead pipes over the next ten years. The plan has more than 15 action items including the launch of a new EPA regulatory process for our water drinking…

Osamah Khalil, associate professor of history in the Maxwell School, was interviewed for the Morning Consult article “America is Experiencing a Biden Bump Abroad, but It’s What Allies Fear That Matters Most.” Khalil discussed the idea of the ‘Biden bump,’…

Shana Kushner Gadarian, associate professor of political science in the Maxwell School, was quoted in The Christian Science Monitor piece “As US faces new COVID variant, calls for patience and prudence.” Gadarian discusses the newest COVID-19 variant, omicron, and whether…

Baobao Zhang, assistant professor of political science in the Maxwell School, was interviewed for the Wired article “Ex-Googler Timnit Gebru Starts Her Own AI Research Center.” Professor Zhang conducted a survey to gauge how AI researchers and the US public…