As part of the U.S Embassy’s Study for United States Institutes (SUSI) program in Pakistan, six current and recent UMass Amherst political science students arrived in Islamabad on Monday for a week-long stay, during which they’ll attend an international youth conference, tour some of the region’s landmarks and speak to news outlets there about cross-cultural education and exchange. 

The International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) has awarded its annual Book Award (2013) to Online Dispute Resolution: Theory and Practice (The Hague:  Eleven International Publishing, 2012).

“I am a TV news anchor at Fox 5 in Atlanta,” says Tom Haynes ’94. “And trust me, every bit of what I do in my job today was cultivated during my four years at UMass.”

Moving from an Intro to American Politics or Political Theory course to TV, may not seem like an obvious step for political science majors. But that’s exactly what happened for Haynes.

Political Science graduate student Tyler Schuenemann has been awarded a 2013 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) from the U.S. Department of State. Under this program, Schuenemann will spend the summer learning advanced Arabic through an intensive immersion program based at Alexandria University in Egypt.

This language study will better prepare Schuenemann for his dissertation field work, which will examine practices of sacrifice by those resisting and enforcing the state in the contemporary Middle East.