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• Carolina Data Science Now: Navigating Politics & the Law

  With Cameron Ballard-Rosa, Frank Baumgartner, Shannon McGreggor The November 2022 Carolina Data Science Now seminar took place on November 10 at 12 PM ET with the theme of “Navigating Politics & the Law.” The event will featured three lightning talks … Continued

• New: P-FUNC (PoliSci in the Field at UNC)

  Welcome to P-FUNC!!! P-FUNC (PoliSci in the Field at UNC) is the funkiest survey data collection in political science. If you are interested in learning more, put a glide in your slide and a dip in your hip and come … Continued

• Former student of Professor Frank Baumgartner, Jackson Hill named 2022 George Barrett Social Justice Fellow

  Jackson Hill named 2022 George Barrett Social Justice Fellow Jackson discovered his career ambition in a class taught by political scientist Frank Baumgartner that Hill took as a freshman at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he majored … Continued

• Political Science Graduation Ceremony to be Livestreamed on May 8th

  We are pleased to announce we will be livestreaming the Political Science Graduation Ceremony on Sunday, May 8th starting at 1PM, (link is below).  Tell your family/friends who are unable to join us! https://youtu.be/cZFuMpAbhS8

• Monday, March 21st: Gary Griffin & Ken Rose

  Mr. Griffin served five years on Mississippi’s death row before his death sentence was overturned. He was released from prison after 23 years in 2009 and later worked as an investigator in capital trials and post-conviction death penalty appeals in … Continued

• Monday, March 7th: Kristine Bunch

  Ms. Bunch, from rural Indiana, was convicted of murder by arson and served more than 17 years before she was able to demonstrate that the fire that had killed her young son in a trailer home they shared in 1995 … Continued