Paul Collins was elected President of the Consortium for Undergraduate Law and Justice Programs. The Consortium is the world’s largest organization for colleges and universities that have undergraduate programs focused on the interdisciplinary study of law and justice. It serves as a clearinghouse for information about teaching in and administering these programs and hosts a biennial conference on legal studies undergraduate education, among other activities.

Professor Brenda K. Bushouse of the UMass Amherst School of Public Policy and Department of Political Science has been awarded a two-year Learning Sciences Exchange fellowship for her work on early childhood policy. The fellowship is a partnership of the Jacobs Foundation, New America, and the International Congress of Infant Studies.

Virtual HDRO Seminar on: "International environmental cooperation and sustainability Within a constructivist framework" by Professor Peter Haas.

What does Constructivism tell us about the conditions under which effective international environmental cooperation occurs? What are the policy interventions by which international environmental cooperation and sustainability may be improved? This seminar will explain Constructivism’s contribution (from international relations theory) to understanding international environmental cooperation with the help of empirical examples. The record of international environmental cooperation is varied, but there are more successes than are generally acknowledged (for instance Mediterranean pollution control, Stratospheric Ozone protection, European Acid Rain governance). The successful cases artfully combine institutional design with the provision of organized scientific knowledge.

Political science major Kenneth Amoah is leading a group of college students in their home town of Worcester in a campaign to increase voter registration and turnout.