Jessica Feezel (Ph.D. 2009), Meredith Conroy (Ph.D., 2010), and Mario Guerrero (Ph.D. candidate) received a best-paper award at the APSA Annual Meeting, 2010. Their paper, "Facebook is . . . Fostering Political Engagement: A Study of Online Social Networking Groups and Offline Participation," won the Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the Information Technology and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.