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Paul Beck Receives 2004 Distinguished Scholar Award

On January 27, 2004, OSU President Holbrook, Vice President Rosol, and others honored Paul Beck by surprising him with the news that he has been named one of the 2004 Distinguished Scholar Award winners.

Guther wins Second Distinguised Award

The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences is delighted to announce the selection of three Joan N. Huber Faculty Fellows in the sixth
year of the program:

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Brenda L. Dervin, School of Journalism and Communication

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Richard Gunther, Department of Political Science

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Catherine M. Stoney, Department of Psychology

The purpose of this program is to acknowledge and reward the strongest scholars on the SBS faculty. It is named in honor of Joan Huber,
who in her own scholarly career and as Dean of SBS [1984-1992], set the highest standards for faculty in SBS, standards we aspire to continue.

The colleagues selected as Joan N. Huber Faculty Fellows will receive an annual cash award of $5,000 a year for three years to further their research programs.

In January it was announced that Dick Gunther had won the University's Faculty Award for Distinguished University Service. It was announced to him in a surprise visit by the President and Provost to a committee meeting he was attending on Tuesday, January 20, 2004.

As many of you know, Dick has made very valuable contributions to the University in a series of important service roles, including his Chairmanship of the University Fiscal Committee for the last two years and his leadership of the campaign to protect the University budget and mission against legislative action last Spring.  He is an eminently worthy recipient of a distinguished service award.  More ...
 

Upcoming Events

Comparative Politics Research Wokshop

Tony Mughan will present a paper titled "Economic Insecurity and Welfare Policy Preferences: A Micro-Level Analysis" in the comparative politics research wokshop this Thursday, April 27, 2004 at 3:30 in the Spencer Room. I've attached the paper and as usual we will end before 4:45.Also save May 6th for Georgii Derlugian who will be presenting in the workshop. Also Bill Liddle has agreed to give a presentation on May 20th.

PRISM and ITV Present

"Time Series Models for Event Counts" Friday, April 30 1:00 2:00 p.m. Lord Hall, Room 19 Patrick Brandt (Ph.D., Indiana) is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas. His research focuses on the dynamics of divided government and legislative-executive relations. Brandt possesses methodological interests in time series, dynamic event count models, and Bayesian vector autoregression. His work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science and Political Analysis. Brandt currently has a National Science Foundation grant (with John Freeman) for the investigation of Bayesian time series applications to the study of international conflict.

Leadership Series

The next speaker in our Leadership Series is George Breslauer, who will speak on Wednesday May 5, from 3:30-5:00 in Rm 1039 Derby Hall. The title of his talk is "Reflections on the Study of Transformational Leadership."

Breslauer is Chancellor's Professor of Political Science, and Dean of Social Sciences, at the University of California at Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan in 1973. He is author or editor of 12 books on Soviet and post-Soviet politics and foreign relations, most recently Gorbachev and Yeltsin as Leaders (Cambridge UP, 2002). In 1997, he received the Distinguished Teaching Award in the Social Sciences. In 1998, he was appointed Chancellor's Professor in recognition of exceptional levels of accomplishment in research, teaching, and service. In 1999, he was appointed Dean of Social Sciences.

 

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