Department of Government Blog, May 2012
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2012-05
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The Department of Government is distinguished by the breadth and quality of its faculty, students, and curriculum. To support continued quality the Department of Government blog is dedicated to providing timely news, events, and items of interest pertaining to political science and the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Contents: May 10 -– Staff Win 2012 Poker Walk -– Vickers Assumes Advising Leadership Positions -– Huber Receives Award for Distinguished Service to Advising –- Huber Appointed Chair of NACADA Summer Institute Advisory Board -– Haynes to present paper at NACADA Conference -– Abramson Wins Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award –- May 15 -– Chi Wins Excellence Award -– Theriault Named Distinguished Teaching Professor –- May 27 & 28 -– After 9/11: American Soft Power and the Arab Spring –- Prindle Wins Holloway Award -– May 29 -– Jeremy Fortier Wins Powers Dissertation Fellowship –- External Fellowships Won for 2012-13 -– Department and University Fellowships for 2012-13 –- May 30 -– Campaign Finance, Citizens United, and the Case for Procedural Equality -– Working Class Need, Corporate Greed: How Wealth Has Become Political Capital in America -– Free Thought and Political Society in the American Republic -– Perception vs. Reality: The Truth About Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Post 9/11 America -– Towards Free and Fairness?: Regional Variances in Democratic Elections in Nigeria -– When Lies Matter: The Effect of Media Coverage of Misinformation in the Health Care Reform Debate on Public Opinion -– The Effects of High School Experience on the Civic and Political Participation of College Students -– Indigenous Tourism and Economic Development: Building Community to Promote Development in the Valley of Liquine, Chile -– The Mind and Sociability of the Democratic Man –- Benefitting From Fear: The United States Political and Media Portrayal of Spillover Crime on the U.S.-Mexico Border -– May 31 -- Givens on Multiculturalism in Europe