The Athletic Department announced that Samantha Schnoerr (’11 Legal Studies) of the women's rowing team was named the Spring Scholar-Athlete.She was honored at the annual Sports Luncheon in May. 

Schnoerr  was named the Atlantic 10 Rowing Student-Athlete of the Year on as well as the UMass Female Scholar Athlete. The 2011 A-10 All-Conference First Team member holds a 3.945 grade point average as a Legal Studies major, and was the recipient of the Shep Shepard Award, which recognizes academic excellence in Legal Studies as well as contributions to the community.

On May 7th, 2011, three Political Science undergraduates recieved Alan L. and Carol S. LeBovidge Undergraduate Research Scholarships. This scholarship allows students to conduct semester-long research with a faculty member. The three students are: 

Marisa Baglaneas ’12, Political Science, for "Health Equity in the US, New Zealand and Australia: Symbol or Substance?"  with Professor Dean E. Robinson (Department of Political Science)

Jane Fountain, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, and Director of the National Center for Digital Government and the Science, Technology and Society Initiative, gave the keynote address at the United Nations Conference on e-Government in Asia and the Pacific held in Seoul, Republic of Korea on May 11-13, 2011.

Elva Orozco-Mendoza has received a Skellig Foundation fellowship to attend the Clinton Institute at the University College Dublin. She will spend her summer at the Institute's intensive seminar program in Dublin where she will be able to conduct pre-dissertation research and share her work with scholars and graduate students from around the world.