William Bianco and Regina Smyth awarded Fulbright grants for teaching and research (full story)

A Virtue for Courageous Minds: Modernation in French Political Thought, 1748-1830. Written by Aurelian Craiutu, Published by Princeton University Press. (full story)

Political science student, Miles Taylor, named 2012 Marshall Scholar (full story)

Political science graduate, Mike Wagner: approval ratings surge as teacher, researcher, mentor at University of Nebraska-Lincoln (full story)

Prof. Lawrence Hanks, 1954-2011 (full story)

Jerry Wright received the 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award

At this year’s annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, IUB’s Jerry Wright receives 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award from the State Politics and Policy section of the largest organization of political scientists in the world. In making the award, Chris Mooney, who chaired the selection committee, cited Jerry’s enduring contribution to the study of state politics and policy in three areas:...more

Congratulations to Margie Hershey, who was named winner of the 2011 CQ Press Teaching Award for Teaching Innovation. Margie was selected by a committee of professors from the APSA’s organized section on teaching and learning for her development of a sequence of modules designed to improve the teaching skills of our graduate students. She will receive the award at the APSA’s annual meeting in Seattle.

Congratulations to Lauren MacLean whose Informal Institutions and Citizenship in Rural Africa: Risk and Reciprocity in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire (Cambridge University Press 2010), has been selected as the winner of the 2011 Sartori Award... more

Owen Johnson interviews IU Bloomington political science professor Beate Sissenich in one of four Profiles programs devoted to discussion of the European Union.

Eileen Braman's award-winning work, Law, Politics, and Perception: How Policy Preferences Influence Legal Reasoning, featured in Appellate Practice Journal
	Law, Politics, and Perception: How Policy Preferences Influence Legal Reasoning, which recently won the American Political Science Association's C. Herman Pritchett Award for best book on law and courts...link

2011 undergraduate awards reception
	For more details on award recipients and a slideshow of the reception, see: Undergraduate Awards Reception program, and a slidshow of the ceremony.

William R. Thompson, Donald A. Rogers Professor of Political Science, one of five IU professors promoted to distinguished rank
	Thompson, the Donald A. Rogers Professor of Political Science at IU Bloomington, is recognized nationally and internationally as one of the most important and productive scholars in the field of international politics. (full story)

IU graduate's documentary explores immigration from the Mexican side
	Roy Germano doesn't make policy recommendations in his film The Other Side of Immigration. Instead he gives viewers an up-close-and-personal look at the small towns in Mexico where opportunities are few and residents leave home -- sometimes for years -- to find work in the U.S. (full story)

IU to present honorary degree to surgeon general of the Navy

Indiana University will confer honorary degrees to Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand and Adam M. Robinson Jr., surgeon general of the U.S. Navy, during IU Bloomington's 2010 winter commencement ceremony on Dec. 18. Robinson, a native of Louisville, Ky., earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science at IU Bloomington in 1972 and a medical degree from the IU School of Medicine in 1976. (full story)

Edward Carmines elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Congratulations to Professor Ted Carmines who has been elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He will be presented with a certificate and rosette at the Association's Annual Meeting to be held in Washington, DC on Saturday, February 19, 2011. News Release

The National Research Council has confirmed that both our Ph.D program and our joint program in public policy with SPEA belong among the nation’s best! In NRC’s crucial “S” (or survey-based) ranking, the Department of Political Science placed 18th among the 106 programs surveyed. We did particularly well in the “Research” and “Student Support” categories. See the following files for details: PowerPoint summary; and explanation of methods and data.

     Chairperson Professor Russell Hanson presented the Political Science 2010 Distinguished Alumni Award plaque to Vice Admiral Adam Robinson at a lunch in his honor on October 21st.

Robinson, a native of Louisville, Ky., earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science at IU Bloomington in 1972 and a medical degree from the IU School of Medicine in 1976. He also earned a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of South Florida in 1995...
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