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• UNC Political Science Silent Sam Statement

  October 1, 2018 A decisive majority of the faculty in the department of political science support the statement of the Council of Chairs in the College of Arts and Sciences adopted on August 27, 2018 and strongly oppose the return … Continued

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  Suspect Citizens in the News: Do You Know Why You Pulled Me Over (Washington Monthly Magazine)

  If this seems all too predictable, you should know this, too: many North Carolina officers and police departments do not stop and search black drivers at higher rates than whites. That, it turns out, is the most significant observation in Suspect Citizens, a … Continued

• Kelsey Shoub Wins Award for the Best Applied Methods Poster – 2018

  At the 35th annual meeting of the Society for Political Methodology, 2018 UNC PhD Kelsey Shoub, now a post-doctoral fellow at The University of Virginia, won the award for the best applied methods poster, from over 100 presenters. Her presentation, “How Changing … Continued

• Supreme Court Decision Uses UNC Research

  On June 28, 2018, the US Supreme Court denied requests by two death row inmates from Mississippi to have their cases heard. Justice Stephen Breyer dissented from these decisions, citing a recent work by Prof. Frank Baumgartner along with UNC … Continued

• 2018 Honors Carolina’s Manekin Award Recipient: Sarah Treul Roberts

  Congratulations to Sarah Treul Roberts who has been selected as the 2018 recipient of the Honors Carolina’s Manekin Award for Teaching Excellence.  This award is given annually to a member of the UNC faculty nominated by Honors Carolina students.

• Sarah Treul and Rachel Porter weigh in on inexperienced congressional candidates

  Inexperienced candidates are becoming more common, but only in one party  Republicans are electing more inexperienced candidates than they used to, and more than Democrats By Sarah Treul and Rachel Porter ~ Apr 20, 2018, 4:10pm EDT for Vox