News for Students & Alumni

Barbara Allen will be part of a program at Resources for the Future on media representations of science, climate change.

Summer 2012 newsletter

Political Science Department majors Gracie Ogilby ’12 POSC (Belmont, Mass.) and Niki Tomita ’12 POSI (Redwood City, Calif.) earned two of the 40 fellowships from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation.…

Al Montero, Professor of Political Science, has been selected to attend The Council on Foreign Relations’ Educators’ Workshop to be held at the CFR’s New York headquarters on Thursday, April…

Carleton College students Gracie Ogilby ’12 (Belmont, Mass.) and Niki Tomita ’12 (Redwood City, Calif.) earned two of the 40 fellowships from the Thomas J. Watson Foundation. The fellowships, awarded to college seniors to pursue their unique passion or dream for a year of independent exploration and travel outside the United States, are picked from select private liberal arts colleges and universities. This year, from over 700 candidates, 147 finalists were nominated to compete on the national level from which the 40 fellows were selected. Each fellow will receive $25,000 for twelve-months of travel and exploration.

A paper coauthored by Prof. Steven Schier and Edward Bearnot ’11,”The Floating Voter in the 2008 American Elections,” appears in The American Review of Politics Summer 2012 issue.  The article began as a final paper in Prof. Schier’s Issues in American Democracy class.

Professor Tun Myint was interviewed by LinkAsia TV about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Burma.  See the interview here.

Al Montero traveled to Cuba last year to explore the land of his parents’ birth and gather material for a new political science seminar that takes students beyond the textbook.

Political Science Department/Alumni Newsletter