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Results from the March/April 2022 Hawkeye Poll of Iowa

Monday, May 23, 2022
The Hawkeye Poll is a cooperative venture between faculty and graduate students in which members help implement the survey in exchange for the opportunity to place questions on it.
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Congrats Class of 2022!

Congratulations advertisement for 2022 graduates of Political Science and International Relations.
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Amna Haider receives Hancher-Finkbine Medallion

Amna Haider was among 11 University of Iowa students, faculty, staff, and alumni receiving awards at the 105th Finkbine Awards dinner.
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Lindsey Allemang Goldberg receives CLAS Dissertation Fellowship

Friday, April 1, 2022
Congratulations to Lindsey Allemang Goldberg on receiving the CLAS Dissertation Writing Fellowship for her dissertation "Gender and Reproductive Violence with Armed Rebel Movements." The fellowship provides financial support and time for PhD candidates to focus on their dissertation.
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Ko and Micatka receive Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowships

Friday, March 25, 2022
The Post-Comp Fellowship recognizes graduate students with distinguished academic achievement and provides a stipend so they can focus on their research for a semester.
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IPOL survey finds Iowans worried about climate change

Friday, March 11, 2022
A recent Iowa Policy and Opinion Lab (IPOL) survey conducted by University of Iowa faculty and students found that a majority of Iowans are worried about the effects of global climate change. Concerns about climate change split strongly along partisan lines and show some level of generation differences.
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Coll article on COVID and voting published in Social Science Quarterly

Joseph Coll's "Waiting to vote safely: How Covid-19 safety measures shaped in-person voter wait times during the 2020 election" article published in Social Science Quarterly.
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IPOL survey finds majority of Iowans support change to bottle bill deposit law

Friday, March 4, 2022
A recent Iowa Policy and Opinion Lab (IPOL) survey conducted by University of Iowa faculty and students found that a majority of Iowans support changes to Iowa’s bottle bill deposit law. The strongest support was seen for expanding the types of containers covered.