News

Professor Peter Haas quoted in "The New York Times"

December 6, 2009

Read the article "Europe Bypassed on Climate Summit"

Graduate Student Rebecca Lisi wins re-election to become City Councilor at-Large of Holyoke

November 29, 2009

Undergraduate Student Evan Brassard Receives Human Rights Award

November 29, 2009

This past summer Evan Brassard ’10 participated in an internship at Rehabilitative Resources Inc. (RRI), a nonprofit agency in Sturbridge, Mass. RRI specializes in providing services and support to the developmentally disabled. Brassard’s work focused on the agency’s human rights training manuals, the implementation of a teaching aid to help site supervisors relay human rights lessons to individuals served by the programs, and writing a guide to aid in understanding of the state regulations.

Professor Jane Fountain reappointed to World Economic Forum's Future of Government Council

November 17, 2009

Jane Fountain, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Director of the National Center for Digital Government, and Director of the Science, Technology and Society Initiative has been appointed for a second year to the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Government.

Professor Charli Carpenter Publishes Commentary on EU Report on the Georgia/Russia War at Radio Free Europe

October 20, 2009

On 30 September, the European Union released its report on last year's August war in the Caucasus. The aim was to establish what happened, since as stated in the preamble, "there can be no peace in the South Caucasus as long as a common understanding of the facts is not achieved."

Professor Stuart Shulman gives an invited talk at the Ohio State University "Program in Statistics and Methodology" titled "Measuring Validity in Text Analysis"

October 20, 2009

Prof. Shulman will be giving an invited Program In Statistics and Methodology lecture hosted by PRISM Director Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier titled "Measuring Validity in Text Analysis". He will also conduct a separate hands-on, computer lab-based training session titled “Coding the Blogosphere: Introducing the Coding and Blog Analysis Toolkits” where he will introduce the Coding Analysis Toolkit (CAT), a web-based service designed to facilitate the measurement and reporting the reliability and validity of work completed by multiple coders.

Professor Jane Fountain gives an invited talk at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands titled "Networking for Obama: on the role of Web 2.0 in 2008 presidential election"

October 19, 2009

November 19 : Jane Fountain over "Networking for Obama: on the role of Web 2.0 in 2008 presidential election"
International Research Seminar - department of Public Administration

Jane Fountain is professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the Massachutesetts Amhurst.

Under the direction of Professor Jane Fountain the National Center for Digital Government Co-Sponsors World Bank Forum

October 13, 2009

The National Center for Digital Government (NCDG) co-sponsored the 2nd Korea-U.S. Information and Communication Technology-Based Policy Forum at the World Bank on November 5, 2009.

Professor Fred Schaffer elected Chair of the IPSA Concepts and Methods Committee

September 8, 2009

Information about the committee can be found at http://www.concepts-methods.org/

Professor Maryann Barakso elected President of the APSA Women & Politics Research Section

September 7, 2009

Assistant Professor of Political Science Maryann Barakso was recently elected President of the American Political Science Association (APSA) Women & Politics Research Section. Professor Barakso will be the Program Chair of the section for APSA in 2010 before serving as the President in 2010-2011. This is quite an honor and we congratulate Professor Barakso on her accomplishment.

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