Student News
Undergraduate Students
- Four majors were awarded 2011 James R. Soles Undergraduate Citizenship Stipends. Paige Barton is working for the US House Committee on Homeland Security in Washington, DC, Carys Golesworthy at the US Embassy in La Paz, Bolivia, Michael Paterra at the US Consulate in Naples, Italy and Thien-Chan Vu with Compassion for Migrant Children in Beijing, China.
- Alexander Holmes, POSC 12, received the 2011 Paul Dolan Undergraduate Fellowship Award for a rising senior who "shows by his scholarship and character the greatest promise for the study of law for the public good."
- Alissa Werzen, POSC 11, received the 2011 Robert Barrie Ulin Award for the outstanding senior in Political Science.
- Meredith Stuart, IR 11, received the 2011 Robert Barrie Ulin Award for the outstanding senior in International Relations.
- Brennan Robinson, POSC 12, received the 2011 Gladys and Harry David Zutz Award for the rising senior man who shows a dedication to community service.
- Lauren Cutajar-Wynne, IR 12, received the 2011 Gladys and Harry David Zutz Award for the rising senior woman who shows a dedication to community service.
- Political Science minor Matthew Watters was named one of 32 Rhodes Scholars from the USA for 2012. Watters is the University of Delaware's 12th Rhodes Scholar and will study at the University of Oxford beginning in fall 2011.
- All of the eight undergraduates chosen as 2011 Legislative Fellows were political science majors or minors. They were: Grace Bennett, Amanda Carlson, Lauren Cutajar-Wynne, Damian DeStefano, Jason Freeman, Heather Lehman, Brian Papp, and Erin Ruddock. They began working at Legislative Hall in Dover in mid January.
Graduate Students
- Guen Koh has been accepted into the Social Science Research Council 2011 Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop. She attended the workshop, held in the Asilomar Conference Center in Monterey, California, in early July. The workshop provides the opportunity for advanced graduate students to give and receive critical feedback on dissertations in progress.
- Rajdeep Pakanati and Angela Wolfe received funding from the UD Office of Graduate and Professional Education to undertake research during summer 2011. Rajdeep is researching freedom of information acts in South Africa and the United Kingdom and Angela is conducting research in Lima, Peru.
- Reid Smith participated in Palestine Summer Encounter during summer 2011; PSE is a service learning and cultural immersion program in Bethlehem, Palestine. Among other things, participants receive Arabic language training.
- Lauren Balasco attended a prestigious law program at the Hague Academy in The Hague, Netherlands during summer 2011. Lauren also participated in the 11th annual Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University in June 2011. The Institute is co-sponsored by the Consortium on Qualitative Research Methods (CQRM) and seeks to enable students to create and critique methodologically sophisticated qualitative research designs, including case studies, tests of necessity or sufficiency, and narrative or interpretive work.
- Zofia Maka attended the Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research at the University of Michigan during summer 2011.
- Several graduate students received 2011 Department of Political Science and International Relations Research Awards to assist faculty in their summer research on campus. They are: Atnre Alleyne, Bruno Fanelli, Andrew Hunt, Faith Okpotor, Brett Remkus, Onur Tanay, and Kristin Vandenbelt.
- Lauren Balasco was honored in the spring with a 2011 University of Delaware Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching Award.
