Raymond S. Bradley, director of the Center for Climate Change, is among four researchers affiliated with the campus who contributed to reports issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in recent years. The reports earned the panel the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, shared with Al Gore, a leading environmentalist and former U.S. vice president.

The Department of Political Science was awarded a Mellon Mutual Mentoring grant for 2007-08 to support its new faculty.  The grant will support Professors Ahmed, Nteta, Schwedler, and Watts by providing funding for conference travel, funding to bring outside speakers to campus, and more generally to facilitate mutual mentoring relationships among political science faculty on campus and in the Five-College area.  For more information about the Mellon Mutual Mentoring Initiative, please see http://www.umass.edu/ofd/initiative.ht

Brenda Bushouse, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, was awarded the Ian Axford Fellowship in Public Policy to study early childhood policies in New Zealand.  She will be based in the Ministry of Education from February to August 2008 and will study the implementation of the 20-Hours Free Programme, a new subsidy program for preschool-age children.  Professor Bushouse will compare the New Zealand subsidy program with state universal pres

This year Professor Dean Robinson and Professor Paul Rego have been nominated to receive the Distinguished Teaching Award.