The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Agenda Council (GAC) on the Future of Government, in cooperation and with the support of the Government of the United Arab Emirates, launched today a guide to help governments use technology to build better trust and deliver more efficient public services.

Professor Charli Carpenter of the Political Science department recently presented original research on the public perception of autonomous weapons at the United Nations Conventional Weapons Conference in Geneva earlier this month. The CWC was convened to discuss the development and deployment of these weapons--so called "killer robots"--and the ethical and pragmatic issues they raise in the international system. 

Professor Laura Reed has been invited to attend the 2014 academic forum sponsored by the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) Organization to work with their technical experts to develop educational resources that integrate CTBT-related topics into existing policy and science-based academic curricula. 

PhD student Elva Orozco-Mendoza has received the Joyce Berkman Award for Outstanding Graduate Feminist Scholarship from the Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies Program at UMass Amherst. 

Named in honor of Professor Emeritus Joyce Berkman, the prize is given annually to a graduate student who is graduating from the University of Massachusetts Amherst Certificate in Advanced Feminist Studies program.