Students, alumni and friends are invited to join the Department and the College of Social and Behavioral Science on November 5, 2011 as we honor Professor Emeritus Edwin Gere.  Prof. Gere will be presented with citations from state and federal legislators to recognize his outstanding service during the Berlin Airlift in World War II. 

The event will take place during Homecoming Weekend, November 5, in the Massachusetts Room in the Mullins Center on campus. Please check the events calendar for specific details.

Sean Quinn '12 has been selected as a 2011 recipient of a Arthur R. Lambert Scholarship. Quinn, who is spending the summer interning in the office of Therese Murray, President of the MA Senate, competed against 500 legislative interns for this prestigious award.

The $1,000 scholarship and award is given annually each summer to recognize students with strong working knowledge of state government and who have high moral values. 

The Department of Political Science has released its 2010-2011 Annual Report. The report highlights some of the key honors, awards, and achievements of the department's faculty and students over the past academic year and recognizes donors who have made so many of the department's activities possible.

Read the complete report here.

Jillian Schwedler, Associate Professor of Political Science, and author of Faith in Moderation: Islamist parties in Jordan and Yemen, was featured on Bloggingheads.tv in a discussion about the current upheavals in the Arab world. Bloggingheads.tv is an online forum featuring informal “diavlogs" -- or video blogs --  between two experts connecting over their personal webcams.