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Congratulations to political science doctoral student, Kathy H. Rim, on being selected as the 2009-10 UCI Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow. The honor recognizes Rim for her “past accomplishments, enthusiasm for excellence, vitality, ingenuity, and leadership potential consistent with that exhibited in life by Fletcher Jones.” The accompanying $20,100 prize will support her research on the political behavior and participation of Asian Americans, a topic she has been studying since her days as an undergraduate at UCI. Rim is the fifth UCI graduate student to receive the annual fellowship since it's founding in 2005. Kathy H. Rim was also the 2009 recipient of the Lauds & Laurels Outstanding Graduate Student Award.
Learn more about Rim's research and past accomplishments online.
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Professor Dorothy Solinger's new book, States' Gains, Labor's Losses, takes a comparative look at the impact of global trade on the local economies and government responsiveness in China, France and Mexico
Despite their different economic structures, political party systems and geographic locations, the countries of China, France and Mexico experienced similar spikes in local unemployment levels after joining or preparing to join international trade organizations in the 1980s and 90s. In her new book, States' Gains, Labor's Losses, UCI political scientist Dorothy Solinger takes a comparative look at the sequence of events that followed each country's entry into an international trade organization. She draws a direct link between the nations' decisions to go global and subsequent increases in local unemployment levels as the governments changed policies to coincide with the international economy. She goes on to explain how ensuing worker protests generated variable - and surprising - levels of returns for labor in the three different countries.
For the complete news item:
http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=2317
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Political scientist Carole Uhlaner discusses how the two-thirds vote requirement, term limits and ballot propositions have made the state difficult to govern.
For the complete news item:
http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=2266
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Congratulations to Professor Etel Solingen, who has been awarded the University's Chancellor's Professor title. This title is conferred for a five-year renewable term, and is used to recognize scholars who have demonstrated unusual academic merit and exceptional achievement.
For the complete news item:
http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=2216
Recipients of this distinction are featured on the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost's website at:
http://www.evc.uci.edu/distprof/chan_prof.asp
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Congratulations to undergraduate political science major, Matthew J. Murphy, recipient of the 2009 School of Social Sciences Outstanding Scholar-Athlete Award. This $300 cash award recognizes outstanding students in the School of Social Sciences who have contributed significantly to the campus through athletics.
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Congratulations to the following School of Social Sciences 2008-09 scholarship recipients, undergraduate Political Science majors:
Montrischa M. Williams - winner of the Outstanding Transfer Student Scholarship
Sabrina A. Talukder - winner of the Outstanding Honors Thesis Award
Crystal N.C. Le - winner of the David Rosten International Education and Service Scholarship
Benjamin F. Bohr - winner of the Social Sciences Alumni Academic Excellence Scholarship
The achievements of these students will be formally recognized on Friday, June 12th, during the Schools Order of Merit Ceremony.
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Congratulations to the School of Social Sciences 2008-09 Order of Merit award winner, political science doctoral student, Robin L. Bowman, recipient of the Kathy Alberti Award.
Congratulations also to political science doctoral student, Kathy H. Rim, who will be presented with a special recognition award in honor of her receiving the 2009 UCI Alumni Association's Lauds and Laurels Award for Outstanding Graduate Student.
The formal presentation of awards will occur on Friday, June 12th, during the Schools Order of Merit Ceremony.
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Congratulations to our 2008-09 end of the year Political Science award winners, political science doctoral students:
Becki S. Scola on receiving the James N. Danziger Teaching Excellence Award
Wilfred T.H. Wan on receiving the Easton Award for Outstanding Qualifying Paper
Reuben C. Kline on receiving the Eckstein Scholar Award for Outstanding Student Advanced to Candidacy
Congratulations also to undergraduate student, Political Science and Global Cultures major, Benjamin F. Bohr, on receiving the Eckstein Award for Outstanding Honors Thesis. Benjamin's experiences and accomplishments at UCI have earned him the honor of addressing his fellow classmates at the School of Social Sciences Commencement ceremony on Friday, June 12th, 5 p.m.
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Congratulations to Christopher Cialeo, a junior political science and sociology major, who is the 2009 recipient of the Elena B. and William R. Schonfeld Scholarship. The Schonfeld Scholarship is awarded annually in the School of Social Sciences to the outstanding undergraduate in the next graduating class who combines excellence in scholarship with dedication to the university community and the highest levels of achievement in other fields. The recipient of this scholarship is determined by the School's Executive Committee.
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Political Science Professor Etel Solingen collaborates with international scholars to impact U.S-China relations. Their findings are detailed in new book, "Power and Restraint: A Shared Vision for the U.S.-China Relationship":
The emergence of the Soviet Union as a rising superpower led to strong competition with the U.S. and a Cold War marked by dangerously tense episodes at its brink including the Cuban Missile Crisis. Whereas some regard the rise of China as leading to a similar pattern, the outcome is far from inevitable, says Professor Etel Solingen.
For the past 2 years, she has collaborated with scholars from the Harvard Kennedy School and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences to find ways to avoid confrontation by promoting a mutual understanding of the common goals and challenges the two nations face. These include the global financial crisis, international trade, the fate of North Korea's and Iran nuclear programs, global warming, Taiwan, military modernization, and other threats to peace and stability.
For the complete news item:
http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=2190
Further information on Power and Restraint: A Shared Vision for the U.S.-China Relationship
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Congratulations to political science major Armineh (Dalar) Abolian, the 2009 Nicholas Aeberhard Memorial Award winner for outstanding freshman at UCI. The $3,000 scholarship is based on personal integrity, student leadership, academics and involvement in campus and civic activities.
For the complete news item:
http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=1801
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Congratulations to Professor William R. Schonfeld, who has been selected by the School of Social Sciences to be honored at the 2009 Celebration of Teaching awards ceremony for his excellence in undergraduate teaching by the Division of Undergraduate Education, the Senate Council on Student Experience, and the Teaching, Learning & Technology Center.
The names of all the recipients of the campuswide (competitive) Celebration of Teaching awards, as well as the School Honorees for Excellence in Undergraduate Education, will soon be posted on the Teaching, Learning & Technology Center's website, http://www.tltc.uci.edu.
All members of the campus community are invited to attend the Celebration of Teaching to help acknowledge UCI's fabulous undergraduate instructors. The event takes place on Thursday, May 28, 2009 from 4:30-6:00 in the University Club dining room (reception to follow).
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UCI's Mock Trial team wins the Championship Spirit Award at nationals tournament, finishing eight in the country.
UCI's Mock Trial team closed out their 2009 season in April with an eighth place finish at the National Championship Tournament in Des Moines, Iowa, beating out teams from Columbia, Duke, Northwestern, Princeton, Dartmouth, Brown and Harvard, among hundreds of others.
The Anteaters' overall team effort and positive attitude earned them the Championship Spirit Award and the title of most sportsmanlike team in the country.
Sophomore Ana Dixit and freshman Tom Collins received All-American Awards, bringing the team's yearlong trophy count to nine team awards, 21 individual awards, and four spirit awards for civility.
"By any measure - be it dominance or decency - the Anteaters have become a national powerhouse," says head coach Justin Bernstein.
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Amidst news of U.S. troop shifts from Iraq to Afghanistan, little has been said about the fate of the large number of private security contractors still in country. The lack of news appears to be par for the course, says Deborah Avant, UCI international studies and political science professor, who in a recent study found that for every one “New York Times” story that mentions private security forces, there are 47 that mention U.S. soldiers or troops.
"Just because we don't hear about them doesn't mean they aren't there," she says, adding that the number of contractors performing duties once provided by the U.S. military is greater than the total number of U.S. troops in Iraq. "Private contractors from a global security industry play a significant role in Afghanistan and Iraq carrying out U.S. policy. Most are not U.S. citizens and some carry guns."
In a feature article appearing in this month's “American Interest”, she argues that the lack of information on the private security industry is a significant problem that limits the democratic nature of U.S. foreign policy. The use of contractors, she says, also limits the influence of Congress while the lack of transparency inhibits effective public consent.
For the complete news item:
http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=21
Avant's study is available online at http://www.the-american-interest.com/article.cfm?piece=596 (full view requires subscription).
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UCI political scientist Wayne Sandholtz studies international piracy laws as attacks surge
Pirates are an ancient scourge - having been around as long as people have used the oceans as trade routes - as well as a modern menace. They made headlines recently for hijacking a U.S. cargo ship in the Indian Ocean, taking its captain hostage, and then being killed in his dramatic rescue. This latest attempted takeover of a U.S. flagged cargo ship shows that pirates are determined to continue their exploits, despite intense scorn from the international community.
Professor Sandholtz says maritime piracy highlights the limitations of international law. He is the author of "Prohibiting Plunder: How Norms Change" and the newly published "International Norms & Cycles of Change", which explore the emergence of international rules against wartime looting of cultural treasures.
For the complete news item:
http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=2156
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Congratulations to Willy Jou, Political Science Graduate Student, for his Institute of European Studies Fellowship Award entitled “Left-Right Orientations in New Democracies: Causes, Contents, Consequences” project. The total funding for this project is $3,000 with the project period from 7/1/09 thru 12/31/09.
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New book by Professor Wayne A. Sandholtz, political scientist, examines patterns in development of international law.
Details: Case studies include international rules that have outlawed conquest, terrorism, slavery and genocide.
Recent episodes in which modern pirates have seized ships on the high seas have caused the international community to reexamine options for enforcing centuries-old laws that prohibit piracy. In his new book, “International Norms and Cycles of Change”, UCI political scientist Wayne A. Sandholtz and co-author Kendall Stiles examine how such rules against piracy and other international norms from the 1500s to the present emerge and change over time.
For the complete news item:
http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=2144
Further information on Sandholtz's book is available at Oxford University Press, http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Law/IntellectualProperty/IntellectualProperty/?view=usa&ci=9780195380088.
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2009 Lauds & Laurels recipients in Political Science
Congratulations to the three honorees from Political Science who are among this year's group of 2009 Lauds & Laurels award winners:
Extraordinarius
Jim Danziger, Political Science Research Professor
Read on... more at http://today.uci.edu/news/release_detail.asp?key=1880 and at http://www.uci.edu/uci/features/feature_danziger_090506.php
Community Service
Pam Kelley, '89 Alumna, Political Science and Social Science Lecturer and Law Forum Co-Founder
Outstanding Graduate Student
Kathy Rim, Political Science Graduate Student
The 39th annual Lauds & Laurels ceremony will take place Thursday, May 14, at the Hilton Irvine/Orange County Airport. For a full list of award winners, ticketing and other information, please visit http://www.alumni.uci.edu/how_to_get_involved/ll_news.html
For the complete news item:
http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=2133
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Congratulations to Associate Professor Claire Jean Kim, who has been awarded a 2009 Fellowship to participate in a residential research group sponsored by the UC Humanities Research Institute (HRI).
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The Department of Political Science colloquium series presents:
Title: "Working But Poor in California: Determinants of Poverty Among Migrant Farmworker Families in the Central Valley"
with Armando Ibarra, Ph.D. Candidate, UCI
Date/Time/Place: Friday, December 4, 2009
2:00-3:30pm
Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112
For complete information, please contact Casey Sakasegawa at psdept@uci.edu.
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The Department of Political Science colloquium series presents:
Title: "The Difference Women Make: Cross-National Evidence of the Positive Impact of Women's Presence in Parliaments"
with Amy C. Alexander, Ph.D. Candidate, UCI
Date/Time/Place: Friday, November 20, 2009
2:00-3:30pm
Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112
For complete information, please contact Casey Sakasegawa at psdept@uci.edu.
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The Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences colloquium series presents:
with Rein Taagepera, Professor of Political Science, UC Irvine
For further information, please contact Janet Phelps, jjphelps@uci.edu.
For complete information, click on:
http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/event.php?eid=1368
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UCI University Club Forum and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at UC Irvine present:
Title: "Grading President Obama’s First Year" with Professor Matthew Beckmann, Department of Political Science & Study of Democracy
Date/Time/Place: Wednesday, November 18, 2009
McCulloch Library
University Club
Details: Taking stock of a well scrutinized beginning, Dr. Beckmann will provide a glimpse of the action from the White House.
Everyone is welcome. Lunch service begins 11:15 AM, $11.50 for members and $13.50 for non- members, including tax and gratuity. CALL 949-824-7960 FOR RESERVATIONS Julie Hume, coordinating
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The Department of Political Science colloquium series presents:
Title: "New Work on Political Economy"
Date/Time/Place: Friday, November 13, 2009
2:00-3:30pm
Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112
For complete information, please contact Casey Sakasegawa at psdept@uci.edu.
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Title: Hot Topic Debates 2009: Resolved: Congress should adopt legislatively President Obama's Principles for a national health care system.
Sponsored by: The School of Social Sciences and the Dean's Ambassadors Council
Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009
7:00pm
Parkview Classroom Building 1100
Faculty Participants:
Mark Petracca, Chair and Professor of Political Science
William Schonfeld, Dean Emeritus of the School of Social Sciences & Professor of Political Science
Moderated by: Wayne Sandholtz, Professor of Political Science
For directions to the lecture hall, please visit: http://uci.edu/campusmap/ and type in "Parkview Classroom Building" in the search box
or
on the campus map: PCB is building # 403 (see G7 on the Map)
or
contact Teresa Neighbors at teresa.neighbors@uci.edu
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The Department of Political Science colloquium series presents:
Title: "Policies and Practices of Service Learning: A Study of Three Centers in the Los Angeles Area"
with Zahra G. Ahmed, Ph.D. Candidate, UCI
Date/Time/Place: Friday, November 6, 2009
2:00-3:30pm
Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112
For complete information, please contact Casey Sakasegawa at psdept@uci.edu.
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University of California, Irvine
Laguna Hotel, Laguna Beach, California
For questions or to RSVP, please contact faculty organizers Nina Bandelj, Department of Sociology, UC Irvine nbandelj@uci.edu or 949-824-8872; or Dorothy Solinger, Department of Political Science, UC Irvine, dorjsoli@uci.edu or 949-824-7521.
Funding provided by: American Council of Learned Societies, UCI Office of Research, UC Multi-Campus Research Program in World History, UCI Center for the Study of Democracy, UCI Center for Asian Studies, UCI Departments of Sociology and Political Science, UCI Center for Research on International and Global Studies.
A detailed printable schedule is available online at http://www.democ.uci.edu/research/conf.php.
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The Department of Political Science colloquium series presents:
Title: "(Em) Power (ing) to the People: An Analysis of Obama’s Candidacy on Change
in Black Efficacy over the 2008 Election"
with Christopher Stout, Ph.D. Candidate, UCI
Date/Time/Place: Friday, October 30, 2009
2:00-3:30pm
Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112
For complete information, please contact Casey Sakasegawa at psdept@uci.edu.
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The Center for the Study of Democracy, International Studies and Political Science present:
Title: "Conversation with California Attorney General Jerry Brown" with Edmund “Jerry” Brown Jr., California attorney general.
Date/Time/Place: Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009
2-3:20 pm
Student Center, Crystal Cove Auditorium
This lecture is free and open to the public. Seating is on a first come, first served basis. Public parking is available for $8 in the Student Center Parking Structure located directly across from the Student Center.
and for any questions, please contact Sheila Hayden, 949-824-2904.
For more information on the Center for the Study of Democracy, please visit http://www.democ.uci.edu/.
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The Department of Political Science colloquium series presents:
Title: "In Solidarity? The Question of Asian American Panethnicity"
with Kathy Rim, Ph.D. Candidate, UCI
Date/Time/Place: Friday, October 23, 2009
2:00-3:30pm
Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112
For complete information, please contact Casey Sakasegawa at psdept@uci.edu.
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The Department of Political Science colloquium series presents:
Title: “Terra Nullius, Indifference and Power: A Discussion of Contract and Domination”
with Carole Pateman, American Political Science Association President-elect
and Distinguished Professor, UCLA
Date/Time/Place: Friday, October 16, 2009
2:00-3:30pm
Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112
For complete information, please contact Casey Sakasegawa at psdept@uci.edu.
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The Department of Political Science colloquium series presents:
Title: Professional Development – Graduate School 101
Date/Time/Place: Friday, October 9, 2009
2:00-3:30pm
Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112
For complete information, please contact Casey Sakasegawa at psdept@uci.edu.
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