Lauren McCarthy receives the Aleksanteri Visiting Fellowships 2019-2020 for a six week program at the University of Helsinki. 

Congratulations to Ben Nolan PhD student at the Department of Political Science UMass Amherst for being awarded the Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) Program, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Ben Nolan was one of seventy provisional awardees, selected from a total of 956 submitted applications from graduate students at 100 universities.

Congratulations to Angelica Bernal, who recently received an SBS Research Grant from the Dean's Research Council!

 

By Paul Musgrave - March 28

The conclusion of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report on his investigation of President Trump last weekend came as an anticlimax. Attorney General William P. Barr’s summary makes plain that while the report does not conclude that the president committed crimes, it does not exonerate him, either. Yet after month upon month of anticipation, the investigation had become so freighted that the non-release of a non-exoneration led the New York Times to headline its analysis, “A Cloud Over Trump’s Presidency Is Lifted,” while The Washington Post reported that Hill Democrats were giving up on impeachment for now.