Professor Sara McLaughlin Mitchell was recently recognized with academic awards from the International Studies Association and the American Political Science Association.

Congratulations to Dr. Saera Lee on the successful defense of her dissertation, "How Shared Culture Influences Alliance Termination". She moves on from her graduate studies to a position as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University.

In their recent paper, Daria Kuznetsova and Caroline Tolbert systematically evaluate the relationship between the Internet, social media use, and participation in politics in democracies and non-democracies.

Sara Mitchell and Cody Schmidt find that countries with maritime areas that have more frequent illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing also experience more piracy incidents.

Congratulations to Dr. Willow Kreutzer, Dr. Hoshik Nam and Dr. Hyein Ko on their successful dissertation defenses.

Iowa Policy and Opinion Lab (IPOL) analyzed data from recently recovered Iowa polls conducted by the Des Moines Register around 1980. Read about their findings at https://ipol.lab.uiowa.edu/news.

The 2022-2023 edition of the Hawkeye Policy Report has been released by students in the Legislative Policy Seminar (POLI:3127). This year's edition covers topics on Iowa's cannabis policy, monitoring PFAS in Iowa's waterways, and improving K-12 reading proficiency.

Congratulations to Willow Kreutzer, Saera Lee, Nate Micatka, Jianjun Yu, Hyein Ko, Haofeng Ma, Dasha Kuznetsova, and Addison Huygens on being awarded the Graduate College Summer Fellowship for Summer 2023.

The Department of Political Science will be launching an online alumni and student engagement platform via PeopleGrove that will allow students to more easily connect with alumni and for alumni to also connect with each other.

International Studies Association (ISA) Midwest named Kelly Kadera as the Quincy Wright Distinguished Scholar and Willow Kreutzer received the Lynne Rienner Award for Best Paper Presented by a Graduate Student.