{"id":7459,"date":"2023-03-08T15:06:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T21:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/webid2-test-lsweb\/?page_id=7459"},"modified":"2023-04-28T15:04:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T20:04:26","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/political-science\/about\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"uwm-p-posts uwm-c-list--cleanlist uwm-c-list--border has-dates\"><li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/political-science\/faculty-news\/\">Faculty News<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-12-19T14:35:59-06:00\" class=\"post-date\">December 19, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Faculty in the Media As you might imagine, our Political Science faculty get called upon frequently to contribute their expertise to local and national media outlets.&nbsp; Did you catch these? Sara Benesh Just how impartial are State Supreme Court justices? Associate professor&nbsp;Sara Benesh&nbsp;gave her take in the&nbsp;Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.&nbsp;As the 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court election &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/political-science\/graduate-student-news\/\">Graduate Student News<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-12-11T15:24:25-06:00\" class=\"post-date\">December 11, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Graduate Student Research Our PhD students traveled to academic conferences this year.&nbsp;Pictured to the left is Ahmet Ergurum and friends after their panel at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting where Ahmet presented his research using computational text analysis to consider the salience of emerging tech (AI, drones, semiconductors) on the United Nations Security &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/political-science\/alumni-updates\/\">Alumni Updates<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-12-11T14:37:15-06:00\" class=\"post-date\">December 11, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Alumni Experiences Jaclyn Jecha (&#039;24, MA Political Science) attended the 2025 Supreme Court Summer Institute for Teachers at Georgetown University Law Center this summer. She shared her recollections of the program in this testimonial: Political science alum Jaclyn Jecha attended the 2025 Supreme Court Summer Institute for Teachers at Georgetown University Law Center. This summer, &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/political-science\/undergraduate-student-news\/\">Undergraduate Student News<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-12-11T11:20:25-06:00\" class=\"post-date\">December 11, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Undergraduate Student Research&nbsp; Epsilon Xi Chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha National Political Science Honor Society&nbsp; Members of our chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha also traveled to a national conference to present research this year! Three students \u2013 Ellyn Blakeman, Miso Choi, and Josephine Joanis \u2013 spent three days in Washington, D.C. at the Pi Sigma &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/political-science\/from-the-chair\/\">From the Chair<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-12-11T11:09:08-06:00\" class=\"post-date\">December 11, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Another chair letter, another farewell!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; First, we bid farewell to our long-time colleague, Distinguished Professor Kathy Dolan, who retired in June after an impactful career. Farewell, and a hearty congratulations! Professor Dolan served nearly 25 years at 51ÁÔÆæ and had just completed her second term as University Committee Chair. She had also just finished her &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/political-science\/political-science-awards-four-scholarships\/\">Political Science Awards Four Scholarships<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-05-15T09:46:48-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">May 15, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">The Department of Political Science is pleased to award four scholarships to our Political Science students, thanks to the generosity of our alumnus, Michael C. LeMay and the friends and family of Wilder Crane. Our 2025 recipients of the Michael C. LeMay Political Science Scholarship are Jakobe Godbolt and Shpresa Ameti, two impressive Political Science &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/political-science\/welcome-to-spring-2025\/\">Welcome to Spring 2025!<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-01-27T14:49:20-06:00\" class=\"post-date\">January 27, 2025<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Political Science is happy to welcome you back to campus for Spring 2025!\u00a0 We are especially excited to have one of our own alums, Professor Wendy Martinek (MA, &#039;95), here visiting this semester while she&#039;s on sabbatical from Binghamton University where she is Professor of Political Science. Professor Martinek will be working on a project &hellip; <\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/political-science\/pol-sci-at-uwm-is-panther-prowling-again\/\">POL SCI at 51ÁÔÆæ is Panther Prowling Again!<\/a><time datetime=\"2024-09-13T09:24:41-05:00\" class=\"post-date\">September 13, 2024<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Join Team POL SCI @ 51ÁÔÆæ on a virtual fall walk that benefits student scholarships:&nbsp; 51ÁÔÆæ Alumni Association\u2019s PANTHER PROWL!&nbsp; We believe in our dual access and research missions, and this is one way to show it!&nbsp;Register to join our team&nbsp;and walk along with us, for our students!<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<li><div class=\"post-content\"><a class=\"post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/political-science\/new-course-in-cyberpolitics-offered-this-spring\/\">New Course in Cyberpolitics Offered this Spring!<\/a><time datetime=\"2023-11-27T13:19:33-06:00\" class=\"post-date\">November 27, 2023<\/time><div class=\"post-excerpt\">Looking for something timely and new? 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