News From Your Political Science Department

Most recent first:

Fall 2006: To our great sadness, we bid farewill this fall to our longtime colleague and friend, Dr Peter Renstrom, who succumbed to cancer on Labor Day weekend. A press release about Pete can be found here. We will miss him.

Fall 2005: We welcome three new faculty members: Mark Hurwitz (American Politics, Public Law), Pete Wielhouwer (American Politics, Parties and Elections), and Mahendra Lawoti (Nepal, MDA) are tenure-track assistant professors. See short biosketches of each on the faculty page.

Newsletters and updates from the past:

• Recent department accomplishments: October 2005.
• Recent department accomplishments: Spring 2005.
• Recent department accomplishments: October 2004.
• Recent department accomplishments: Spring 2004.
• Recent department accomplishments: January 2004.
• Recent department accomplishments: Fall 2003.
• Newsletter Fall 2003.
• Recent department accomplishments: Spring 2003.
• Newsletter Winter 2002.
• Newsletter Summer 2000.

Dr Sybil Rhodes giving a presentation on agricultural biotechnology in Argentina and Brazil at the Center for Openness and Development in Latin America in Buenos Aires in August, 2006.

Brief History of the Political Science Department, prepared for the Arts and Sciences Centennial Celebration.