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2025 Raymond von Dran iPrize and Hunter Brooks Watson Spirit of Entrepreneurship Award Winners Announced
Winners of the 2025 School of Information Studies’ (iSchool) Raymond von Dran (RvD) Fund for Student Entrepreneurship iPrize competition and the Hunter Brooks Watson (HBW) Spirit of Entrepreneurship Award were announced on April 10 at the Blackstone LaunchPad in Bird…
University Announces 2025-26 Remembrance Scholars
Thirty-five students have been chosen as the 2025-26 Â鶹ƵµÀUniversity Remembrance Scholars. The scholarships, now in their 36th year, were founded as a tribute to—and means of remembering—the students studying in London and Florence through Â鶹ƵµÀUniversity who were killed…
Maxwell Hall Foyer Home to Traveling Exhibition ‘Picturing the Pandemic’ Until May 15
Five years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic upended daily lives across the globe, changing how we learned, how we shopped and how we interacted with each other. Over the following two years, the virus caused the deaths of several million people,…
Arctic Training With Canadian Troops Complements International Studies
A student in the master of arts in international relations program in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs recently returned from a unique training exercise that brought together U.S. and Canadian troops in the Arctic. Connor McNeil participated…
Ryan Monarch Receives Moynihan Award for Teaching and Research
Ryan Monarch, assistant professor of economics, has been awarded this year’s Daniel Patrick Moynihan Award for Teaching and Research, the Maxwell School’s highest honor for untenured faculty. The award will be presented at the Maxwell School’s Graduate Convocation on Friday,…
Celebrating 30 Years of the Shaw Center as a Hub for Academic Community Engagement (Podcast)
Community engagement. Reciprocal learning. Service to others through volunteering. Those were the principles behind the creation of the Mary Ann Shaw Center for Public and Community Service in 1994 under the direction of then-Â鶹ƵµÀUniversity Chancellor Kenneth Shaw and his…
Maxwell Alumnus Joins California Wildfire Relief Efforts
In mid-January, days after the devastating Eaton Fire began in Los Angeles County, California, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs alumnus Zayn Aga ’21 joined colleagues from the office of U.S. Rep. Judy Chu at a nearby donation drive…
Lauren Woodard Honored for Forthcoming Book on Migration Along Russia-China Border
Lauren Woodard, assistant professor of anthropology, has received the Spring 2025 Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) First Book Subvention for her upcoming book on Russia’s migration policies on the Russia-China border. Woodard’s book is titled “Ambiguous…
Maxwell School Proudly Ranks No. 1 for Public Affairs in 2025
The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs has earned the No. 1 overall spot in the latest U.S. News & World Report Best Public Affairs Schools rankings. This year’s top ranking follows Maxwell’s yearlong celebration of its founding 100…
Olalere, Pion Named Class of 2026 Senior Class Marshals
The Student Experience division is honored to announce the selection of Chidera Olalere ’26 and Silke Pion ’26 as the Class of 2026 Senior Class Marshals. As the all-University representatives for their class, in this role they will help to…