UVa Politics graduate student Chris Ferrero has just accepted a term faculty position for the 2011-12 academic year in the Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University. Congratulations Chris!

Lindsay Flynn won the award for the best poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in 2010, for her poster, "The Work-Family Tradeoff: How Some Countries are Managing Better than Others."  Congratulations Lindsay!

Ph.D. Student Davis Brown has been awarded a Dissertation Year Fellowship by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, for the 2011-2012 academic year. Congratulations, Davis!

Graduate Student Davis Brown has two articles forthcoming in the Journal of Military Ethics: "Judging the Judges: Evaluating Contemporary Challenges to Proper Authority as a Criterion in Just War Theory," and "Proportionality in Modern Just War Theory: A Tort-Based Approach." Both will appear in Fall, 2011. Congratulations, Davis!

Casey Enders, a third-year Politics Honors student, has been awarded the Sen. John W. Warner Award for this year.  Casey will use her award to help her research into the effects of zero-tolerance policies in various school districts around the country.

Two Politics Honors students have been awarded Harrison grants for research this summer. Yixiao Min, a third-year politics honors major in the College, is researching political behavior around the U.S.-China exchange rate. Joseph Riley, a third-year foreign affairs and Mandarin Chinese double major in the College, is researching China's use of soft power to acquire mineral resources in the developing world. He is partnered with Peter Slag.

Professor Stephen White and Graduate Student Evan Farr's article, "No-Saying in Habermas,"  is forthcoming in Political Theory.

The Seventh Annual Graduate Student Conference is coming up on April 7, in Gibson 296. The program and papers are available from the Grad Conference page.