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We emphasize research and teaching that links theory with real world issues and action through politics, public policy and administration. With a degree from our Department, you will be prepared to develop innovative approaches to current and emerging local, national and global challenges.
Highlights and announcements
Associate Professor Dr. Elizabeth Koebele has been awarded the 2023 Emerging Scholar award by the American Political Science Association's Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section. The award is given in recognition of a researcher, within ten years of their PhD degree, who is making notable contributions to the field of science, technology, and environmental politics.
Ph.D. students Keely Eshenbaugh (advisor Dr. Ian Hartshorn) and Shannon Hartmann (advisor Dr. Susanne Martin) have been awarded the Outstanding Domestic Graduate Student Scholarship from the UNR Graduate Student Association. Ph.D. student Miskat Jahan (advisor Dr. Jeremy Gelman) has been awarded the Outstanding International Graduate Student Scholarship from the UNR Graduate Student Association.
During the Spring 2023 semester, 24 of our students are interning with the Nevada State Legislature. Assigned to individual legislators, students are getting firsthand experience in the inner workings of the Legislature, and direct experience with the policy process and policy research. They are helping present bills and participate in interactions between legislators and advocates from a variety of interests. The program is supervised by Dr. Amber Joiner, UNR Political Science Ph.D. '18, who herself was a legislative intern and a two-term Nevada State legislator.
Interested in international politics and affairs? Have you ever wondered how countries negotiate in formal settings? How do they persuade other countries to go along with their proposals? How much informal politicking goes on behind the formal presentations and votes? How effective are they at ameliorating critical problems such as famines and civil war? Find out and learn by participating in the Model UN Club, and by taking our IAFF300 Model United Nations course. Students in the Model UN course have the option of participating in the regional Model UN Conference that takes place late Spring, annually, in San Francisco. Thanks to the generosity of the Judy Nowland & Harry M. Chase, Jr. Scholarship Endowment, we have funds to pay students’ travel expenses.
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