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December 21, 2010
 
Scott Gehlbach was awarded a Romnes Faculty Fellowship Award by the Graduate School      
Congratulations to Scott Gehlbach, who was awarded a Romnes Faculty Fellowship Award by the Graduate School. The award honors a scholar who is within 0-4 years of receiving tenure.
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December 20, 2010
 
Courtney Hillebrecht: 2010 Steven C. Poe Graduate Student Paper Award      
Courtney Hillebrecht: 2010 Steven C. Poe Graduate Student Paper Award, Human Rights Section, International Studies Association, for "When Talk is Cheap: Understanding Compliance with International Human Rights Tribunals."
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November 22, 2010
 
Leticia Bode was awarded Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research Fellows Student Paper Award 2010      
Leticia Bode: Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research Fellows Student Paper Award 2010, for "Filmed in Front of a Live Studio Audience: Using Laughter to Offset Aggression in Political Entertainment Programming" (with Emily Vraga, Courtney Johnson, Jasun Carr, Mitchell Bard, and Bryan McLaughlin)

November 15, 2010
 
Susan Yackee: Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management's Poster Session Award 2010 recipient      
Susan Yackee: Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management's Poster Session Award for Excellent Research by New and Emerging Scholars, 2010, for "Regulatory Uncertainty and Rulemaking Deadlines" (with Stéphane Lavertu)
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October 4, 2010
 
Jeremy Menchik: Fellow at the Center for the Study of Democracy, Religion and Toleration, Columbia University      

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September 27, 2010
 
Congratulations to Lauren McCarthy, for her article "Beyond Corruption: An Assessment of Russian Law Enforcement's Fight Against Human Trafficking,"      
Congratulations to Lauren McCarthy, for her article "Beyond Corruption: An Assessment of Russian Law Enforcement's Fight Against Human Trafficking," being featured on Wilson Quarterly's "Need to Know" blog. The blog highlights noteworthy research from around the social sciences. Lauren's article was published earlier this year in Demokratizatsiya. http://www.wilsonquarterly.com/blog/index.cfm/In_Essence/2010/9/20/enterprising-apparatchiks

September 20, 2010
 
Edwin Newman and Leon Epstein      
Former NBC journalist Edwin Newman, who passed away recently at the age of 91, was an alum of this department. Another departmental connection: Leon Epstein, of Beaver Dam, and Edwin, of the Bronx, were roommates in their freshman year here at UW.
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September 20, 2010
 
Congratulations and thank you      
Several faculty reached milestone years in the Department after the completion of the 2009-10 academic year. Don Downs has completed 25 years at UW, and Ken Goldstein, Melanie Manion, Jon Pevehouse, Aseema Sinha, Kathy Walsh, and Dave Weimer have completed 10 years. On behalf of the Department, thank you all for your distinguished research, teaching, and service!

September 20, 2010
 
Department support of Great People Scholarship initiative      
One of the University's major development goals at present is raising funds for the Great People campaign, which provides need-based scholarships for undergraduates. The Department of Political Science has some scholarships that take need into account, thanks to our generous alumni. In addition, this summer Professors Ken Goldstein, Melanie Manion, and Jon Pevehouse spoke at the Sincere and Company Symposium on the Future, an annual gathering in Chicago for investment and financial services professionals. The event raised $14,000 (and counting) for the Roy L. Komack Great People Scholarship. The Department is pleased to help with this University initiative.

September 7, 2010
 
Leticia Bode and Dhavan Shah: Top Three Faculty Paper, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2010      
Leticia Bode and Dhavan Shah: Top Three Faculty Paper, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2010. For Emily Vraga, Mitchell Bard, Leticia Bode, Jasun Carr, Stephanie Edgerly, Courtney Johnson, Young Mie Kim, and Dhavan Shah, "The Correspondent, the Combatant, and the Comic: How Moderator Style and Guest Civility Shape News Credibility."
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August 30, 2010
 
Michael Schatzberg and Katherine Cramer Walsh co-winner of the Giovanni Sartori Award      
Michael Schatzberg and Katherine Cramer Walsh: Each contributors of a chapter in Political Ethnography, ed. Edward Schatz, co-winner of the Giovanni Sartori Award for the best book in Qualitative Methods, APSA Qualitative and Multi-Methods Section. To be awarded at this year's APSA meeting.
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July 27, 2010
 
Department TA Awards for Spring 2010 announced      
Kristin Vekasi and Stefani Veselinovic are the recipients of the department's TA awards for the spring 2010 semester.  Congratulations to them both on their excellent teaching efforts
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July 15, 2010
 
Latest Badger Poll to be Released      

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June 8, 2010
 
Amnon Cavari wins APSA Presidency Research Group's Founders Award      
Amnon Cavari has won the APSA Presidency Research Group's Founders Award for the best graduate student paper in 2009-10. His award-winning paper, "Presidential Rhetoric and the Economic Policy Image of the Parties,"  was presented at APSA 2009. Amnon will receive the award at the PRG's business meeting at this year's APSA
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May 22, 2010
 
Aili Tripp was elected vice-president of the African Studies Association      

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May 6, 2010
 
Scholarship honors memory of Neha Suri      

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May 3, 2010
 
Faculty and graduate student awards announced      
Adam Auerbach: Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Fellowship  

Christina Ewig and Aili Tripp
: Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar (with Myra Marx Ferree), Globalization and the New Politics of Women's Rights, 2011-2012 academic year.

Dacil Q. Keo
: United States Institute for Peace Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program Peace Scholar  

Kathleen Klaus
: Graduate Student International Field Research Award, UW-Madison Division of International Studies  

Shahirah Mahmood and Tricia Olsen
: TATA Study Fellowship, International Institute, UW-Madison

Taylor Price and Peter Nasuti
: Scott Kloeck-Jenson pre-dissertation fellowship, International Institute, UW-Madison  

National undergraduate awards to Political Science majors
: Asad L. Asad: 2010 Edwin, Frederick, and Walter Beinecke Scholar; Nicholas Lillios: 2010 Harry S Truman Scholar; Steven Olikara: Morris K. Udall Scholar; Emily Duma: Morris K. Udall Scholar

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April 19, 2010
 
Political Science Alumni receives Pulitzer Prize      

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April 12, 2010
 
Kathy Cramer Walsh, Jess Clayton and Naya Mukherji receive teaching awards      
Jess Clayton: L&S Teaching Fellow 2010 (Alternate), College of Letters and Science  
Naya Mukherji: L&S Teaching Fellow 2010, College of Letters and Science
Kathy Cramer Walsh: 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Faculty Teaching Award, for UW-Madison campus

April 6, 2010
 
Booth Fowler receives Distinguished Honors Faculty Award      
Booth Fowler receives Distinguished Honors Faculty Award from the College of Letters and Sciences Honors Program.


March 15, 2010
 
Two Political Science alumni receive 2010 "Forward Under 40" Award      
Phil Chavez '94, JD '98 (Milwaukee Municipal Court judge and member of the board of directors of Special Olympics-Wisconsin); and Brian Riedl '98 (Grover Hermann Fellow in Federal Budgetary Affairs for The Heritage Foundation and public educator on government spending) receive "Forward Under 40" awards from the Wisconsin Alumni Association.

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February 8, 2010
 
Richard Avramenko receives William H. Kiekhofer Distinguished Teaching Award      


January 25, 2010
 
Ken Goldstein and Charles Franklin discuss the Mass. Senate race      

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