Monday
Leonard M. Lopoo – Syracuse University
Why Government Policy is Much More Effective at Reducing Births than Generating Them
Leonard M. Lopoo is the Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics; Associate Dean and Chair of the Department of Public Administration and International Affairs; and Director and Co-founder of the Maxwell X Lab. His research is interdisciplinary, and his interests primarily involve the family: fertility, marriage, maternal employment and the social welfare policies designed to assist the low-income population. He has a forthcoming book from the University of Chicago Press titled “Wanting Children: Family Planning Policies and the Re-Engineering of America.”
Lopoo received a Ph.D. from the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago in 2001 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University from 2001-2003.
Tuesday
Rachael Daily Goodwin – Syracuse University
Under Pressure to Be Perfect
Rachael Dailey Goodwin is an Assistant Professor of Management at Syracuse University. She completed a Ph.D. at the University of Utah and a research fellowship with the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard University. She investigates issues of workplace injustice via power, morality, cognitive heuristics, and dehumanization while exploring attitudes towards perpetrators and victims of unethical behaviors. Much of her research aims to strengthen our understanding of the obstacles and conflicts women may encounter while striving towards leadership, including: moral biases related to sexual harassment; leader descriptions and questions that may be linked to female CEO dismissal; expectations of women to handle the detail-oriented work or the tough talk; the invisible mental and emotional load mothers carry at work.
Wednesday
Claire Rubbelke – Syracuse University
Does Earth’s Memory Hold the Key to Our Future?
I recently completed my Ph.D. at Syracuse University and started a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Notre Dame.
My research is centered around the question of whether the short-term extreme weather events we see in the modern will become frequent enough to become part of a region’s mean annual climatology. I use a combination of climate models and biogeochemical proxy data to evaluate the drivers of past climate regime shifts in order to better predict what our future climate may look like.
Thursday
Kristy Buzard – Syracuse University
When Trade Moved Faster: The Power of Multilateralism
Kristy Buzard is an Associate Professor of Economics and Melvin A. Eggers Economics Faculty Scholar at Syracuse University. She received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California San Diego and a B.A. from Drexel University. Her current research focuses on the formation of trade policy, political uncertainty, conflict, and gender inequalities. She is particularly interested in the impact of international institutions, government structure and domestic political pressure on the possibilities for international cooperation.
Friday
David Fastovich – Syracuse University
Why Trees Need Centuries to Adapt or Migrate But Climate Won’t Wait
Dr. David Fastovich was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Bhattacharya Paleoclimate Dynamics lab at Syracuse University and will soon be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Georgia. Dr. Fastovich conducts research at the intersection of ecology and paleoclimate dynamics, studying both the physical mechanisms behind past climate changes and how forest ecosystems responded to those changes. By linking paleoclimate dynamics to ecological responses, his work helps us better understand how trees and forests adapt to climate change to prepare us for the challenges posed by global warming. He uses a range of tools—including computer climate models, fossilized pollen, and molecular fingerprints left by prehistoric plants—to reconstruct past climate conditions and trace how ecosystems evolved alongside them.
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