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Volume 35 - March 2002

Contents

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ASSOCIATION NEWS

  • Ralph Bunche Summer Institute Participants Work Showcased At 2002 Annual Meeting

  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2003, p. 780

  • This year's Annual Meeting in Boston saw the Association host nine outstanding students from the 2002 Ralph Bunche Summer Institute. The Institute's director, Paula D. McClain of Duke University nominated the students to present their work at the American Politics I Poster Session. The student-scholars presented and discussed their research on topics ranging from school vouchers to self-placement in Latin American politics. The students were introduced to the meeting by former Bunche student Vesla Weaver, who is now a second-year doctoral candidate at Harvard University. Ms. Weaver presented her work at the 2001 Annual Meeting and drew on her experiences to walk the students through their first meeting. Ms. Weaver did an outstanding job of advising the students throughout their time in Boston. The Bunche students found active discussions with APSA members, and the Annual Meeting as a whole, a beneficial learning experience that they will draw upon in the future.

  • 2002-2003 APSA Minority Fellows Named

  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2003, p. 781

  • In recognition of their outstanding academic and personal achievements, APSA named five fellows with stipends and four without stipends for the 2002-2003 academic year. Awards are based on students' undergraduate course work, GPA, extracurricular activities, and recommendations from faculty. The program designated five fellows with stipends $4,000 fellowships that will be allocated in two $2,000 payments at the end of each academic year. The Association also recognized an additional four outstanding students who do not receive funding; these students were recommended for admission and financial support to every graduate political science program in the country. This year all fellows were accepted to graduate programs in political science.

Association News

ASSOCIATION NEWS

  • Honorable Mention for 2001 Ralph Bunche Award

  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    21 May 2002, p. 149

  • The 2001 Ralph Bunche Book Award committee composed of Dianne Pinderhughes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, chair; Andrew Hacker, CUNY, Queen's College; and Louis DeSioio, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign designated Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics by Mellissa Nobles as an honorable mention for the 2001 prize. The citation below was mistakenly omitteed from the December 2001 issue of PS.

  • International Scholar Travel Grants

  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2003, p. 782

  • Forty-nine senior and graduate student international scholars benefitted from the APSA's international travel grant program this year. Thirty-four grants to scholars representing sixteen countries were awarded for travel expeses or lodging in Boston. All award winners were involved in the 2002 Annual Meeting program. In the grant program's eight years of existence, 200 international scholars have benefitted.

GAZETTE

ASSOCIATION NEWS

  • Update on the Next Recompetition of the American National Election Studies (ANES)

  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2003, p. 786

  • At its meeting on November 13, 1997, the National Science Board of the National Science Foundation approved a Resolution Concerning Competition, Recompetition and Renewal of NSF Awards (NSB 97-224). In the Resolution, the Board:

    · “(a)ffirms its strong support for the principle that expiring awards are to be recompeted unless it is judged to be in the best interest of U.S. science and engineering not to do so. This position is based on the conviction that peer-reviewed competition and recompetition is the process most likely to assure the best use of NSF funds for supporting research and education.

    · And (r)equests that the Director, NSF, take such steps necessary to ensure that NSF practices embody this principle.”

  • News and Notes

  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2003, p. 786

  • The Romanian Society of Political Studies invites membership applicationsfrom international scholars with relevant interests. The Society was established in January 2000 to enhance and provide an institutional setting for efforts aimed at improving the standards of Romanian political science. It emerged as a response to the growing need for better communication and co-ordination between scholars based at established institutions and those working independently both within Romania and abroad. Its main goal is to improve the academic teaching and research environment in political science in Romania.

  • Washington Insider

  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2003, p. 789

  • On September 19, Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-SC), chair of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, favorably reported bill S. 2817 to effectively double National Science Foundation the NSF budget from near $5 billion to near $10 billion by FY 2007. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee had reported the bill September 5. The House also passed a similar version of this legislation June 5, differing markedly only in that the Senate bill would make the Math and Science Partnership (MSP) Program a formula block, not a competitive grant program, in FY 2006. The House-Senate staff hopes to meet and resolve this difference before the bill comes to the Senate floor. The bill still faces staunch opposition from the Bush Administration, which may veto the bill.

GAZETTE

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