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Professor Martha Kropf, voting and election scholar, shares expertise on the Detroit election ballot

Dr. John Szmer: Monkey Cage Article in The Washington Post

Drs. Jared McDonald and James Igoe Walsh Win the APSA Experimental Research Section Best Replication

Dr. Alexander Kustov, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Administration of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, published “Immigration Opponents Are Far More Passionate than Supporters,” in Monkey Cage of the Washington Post, July 14, 2022. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/14/immigration-san-antonio-public-opinion/

Dr. Mary Layton “Mel” Atkinson, Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, has been selected for the 2022-23 American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship Program. Since 1953, this prestigious program has brought political scientists, journalists, and other professionals to the Capitol, where they take part in educational seminars and work as staff in Congressional […]

Dr. Yaoyao Dai, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, comments in a New York Times interview on the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet’s visit to China. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/world/asia/un-china-xinjiang.html

UNC Charlotte further expands access to the popular political science undergraduate degree with an online version of the B.A. in Political Science enrolling for fall 2022. For more information, please use this link!

Dr. Martha Kropf, Professor of Political Science and Public Administration and Core Faculty of the Public Policy Ph.D. Program, contributes insights on voting and elections in Bloomberg Law article, March 31, 2022. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/social-justice/bidens-limited-voting-to-do-list-unfinished-as-primaries-near

Dr. Jourdan Davis of the Gerald G. Fox MPA Program of Charlotte and her co-author, Dr. Ken Meier of American University, won First Place Best Paper Award at the Conference of Minority Public Administrators (COMPA) for their paper, “Effectiveness, Efficiency and Equity Tradeoffs in Public Programs: A Citizen Experiment”. Dr. Davis also won Best Dissertation […]

Charlotte’s Model United Nations team won a record number of awards at the Southern Regional Model United Nations conference in Atlanta during November 18-20. Students representing Argentina, China, and Turkey won Distinguished Delegation and Germany won Outstanding Delegations. Additionally, seven student pairs won individual awards. Charlotte had seven alumni serving as conference leaders. Congratulations!