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Associate Professor Daniel Aldrich has won a Fulbright research fellowship to spend the academic year 2012-2013 in Tokyo, Japan where he'll be a visiting
scholar at the University of Tokyo and carry out research on recovery from the Tohoku disaster. The stated objective of the Fulbright grant is not only to enable the recipient to pursue a particular field of study but to develop leaders who can contripute to promoting better understanding between the United States and Japan. Aldrich received a Fulbright graduate fellowship to study in Japan when he was in graduate school and then an Abe Fellowship to study in Japan the year before he joined Purdue's faculty (in 2008).
Associate Professor Leigh Raymond is the recipient of the Kenneth Kofmehl Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in the College of Liberal Arts for 2011-2012.
WORKSHOP ON INFORMAL INSTITUTIONS AND INTRACTABLE GLOBAL PROBLEMS, to be held April 16-17, 2012 at Purdue University, has been organized in part by Associate Professor Ann Clark, Associate Professor Leigh Raymond and Professor S. Laurel Weldon. Leigh Raymond and Laurel Weldon will also be workshop speakers. For more information visit: http://qa.www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/intractableproblems
Distinguished Professor Glenn Parker has been appointed to the Faculty Advisory Panel to the Energy Center in Discovery Park at Purdue.
Professor S. Laurel Weldon has been named the first director of the Center for Research on Diversity and Inclusion at Purdue.
Associate Professor Keith Shimko has been selected by the College of Liberal of Arts Educational Excellence Committee as this year's recipient of the Education Excellence Award in recognition of his exemplary contribution to teaching and learning.
Associate Professor Ann Marie Clark has been appointed as a Center for Social Sciences Fellow in the College of Liberal Arts for the Fall of 2012 semester. Her project is entitled, "The Appeal to Justice in International Politics." She will research how and whether practical appeals for justice in international politics contribute to the development of broader justice norms in the international system.
Professor Jay McCann has recently been appointed a Provost's Faculty Fellow for Spring of 2012.
Professor Rosalee Clawson is participating in the Committee on Institutional Cooperation Academic Leadership Program during the 2011-2012 academic year.
Professor Daniel P. Aldrich, an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow, is currently in Washington for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Professor Dwayne Woods is the recipient of a Center for Social and Behavioral Sciences Fellowship for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Professor, Rosalee Clawson and Associate Professor, Leigh Raymond are recipients of a seed grant from the Global Policy Research Institute for their research proposal, "All (Climate) Politics Are Local?
Assistant Professor, Daniel Aldrich is the recipient of a seed grant research proposal from the Global Policy Research Institute.
Associate Professors, Ann Clark, Leigh Raymond, and Professor, Laurel Weldon will soon host a policy workshop entitled, "Non-Formal Institutions," as recipients of a seed grant from the Global Policy Research Institue.
Congratulations to Associate Professor, Pat Boling selected for the Departmental Excellence in Teaching Award in the College of Liberal Arts.
Daniel Aldrich published Site Fights: Divisive Facilities and Civil Society in Japan and the West (Cornell University Press, January 2008). One of the most vexing problems for governments is building controversial facilities that serve the needs of all citizens but have adverse consequences for host communities. Policymakers must decide not only where to locate often unwanted projects but also what methods to use when interacting with opposition groups.
Rosalee Clawson, with Zoe Oxley (Union College), has published, Public Opinion: Democratic Ideals, Democratic Practice (CQ Press, February 2008). One of the central tenets of a democracy is that we expect the public to have some kind of a role in governmental decision making. After all, democracy means government by the people and for the people. But exactly what role does public opinion play?
Glenn Parker published Capitol Investment$: The Marketability of Political Skills (University of Michigan Press, 2008). Capitol Investment$ offers a sophisticated yet accessible analysis of the acquisition and marketability of political skills. It suggests that an awareness of the trade in human capital shapes an officeholder's actions as much as the desire to win another election.
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