- Christopher Ojeda wins the AAPOR Seymour Sudman student paper competition for his work entitled "Who Rallies? The Impact of 9/11 on the Heritability of Trust."
- Congratulations to the following Penn State graduate students for obtaining faculty positions this year: Shaun Bevan (University of Mannheim), Ekrem Karakoc (Binghamton University), Julie Pacheco (University of Iowa), and Jakana Thomas (Michigan State University).
- Matt Golder receives the 2011 GESIS Klingemann Prize for the Best CSES Scholarship for his article in the American Journal of Political Science, "Ideological Congruence and Electoral Institutions.
- Andrew Boutton wins Best Graduate Student Paper award from the International Security Studies Section of International Studies Association.
- Casey Crisman-Cox, a 2011 graduate, won the best undergraduate paper award at the 2011 Midwest Political Science Association meetings for his senior year thesis research entitled "Terrorism, Democracies, and Partisanship: Interactions Between Government and Intrastate Terrorist Groups."
- The interdisciplinary academic Center for American Political Responsiveness was founded in 2011.
- Joseph Wright was named the initial recipient of the Jeffrey and Sharon Hyde / Political Science Board of Visitors Early Career Professorship.
- Lee Ann Banaszak receives grant from the Spencer Foundation for a project on “Learning Protest: Youth Attitudes toward Protest as Civic Action in a Cross-national Perspective.”
- Shaun Bevan, with Will Jennings, wins 2011 Best Comparative Policy Paper Award from the Public Policy Section of the American Political Science Association.
- Matthew Wilson and Mark Shadden are both awarded three year NSF Graduate Research Fellowships.
- Political Science hosts 2011 student-alumni banquet, gives two alumni awards
- Jon Moody and Eitan Tzelgov receive NSF dissertation awards
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