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Summer 2015 Department Newsletter

We are pleased to share the Summer 2015 edition of the Department's Newsletter.

Departmental Graduate Student Orientation

Event Start: September 21, 2015 04:00 PM

Event End: September 21, 2015 09:00 PM

Event Location: The Lane Room (Ellison 3824)

All incoming graduate students are invited to participate in the department's Graduate Student Orientation, which will provide an overview to the graduate program and department and campus resources.

Recent Ph.D. Graduate interviewed for Washington Post Blog

Recent Ph.D. graduate, Michael Albert, was interviewed for a Washington Post Blog on "Why leaving the euro could be a nightmare for the Greeks." Albert was interviewed about "dollarization" and "de-dollarization," which was the focus of his dissertation at UCSB.

Professor Cohen interviewed on implications of faltering economies in China and Greece

The Current interviewed Louis Lancaster Chair, Benjamin J. Cohen, on the struggling economies of China and Greece and their impacts on world economies and the U.S. economy. To read Professor Cohen's take on the current international economic situation, see the "Politics of Economics" article on UCSB's The Current.

Notice of Application for Alien Employment Certification

The attached PDF will be posted on our website for 32 as a notification of application for alien employmnet certification.

2015 Undergraduate Honors Colloquium and Awards Reception

Honors Colloquium with presentations by Honors Students and Awards Ceremony for Department and University Award Winners.

Job Opportunity - Visiting Scholar in Quantitative Methods

The University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Political Science seeks a visiting scholar to teach a graduate course on quantitative methods for the Fall, 2015 term.  The course will cover regression criticism, logit and probit models for binary and ordered dependent variables, multinomial and conditional logit models, and event count models.

Democracy on the Lam: Frontier Vigilantes and Democratic Theory

Event Start: May 18, 2015 11:00 PM

Event End: May 18, 2015 11:00 PM

Event Location: The Lane Room (Ellison 3824)