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Audie Klotz Receives 2023 Wasserstrom Prize for Graduate Teaching
Audie Klotz, professor of political science in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) | Maxwell School, is the 2023 recipient of the Willian Wasserstrom Prize for Teaching of Graduate Students. A&S Interim Dean Lois Agnew will formally confer the prize…
An Intuitive Approach to Physics Research: Get to Know Graduate Student Marshal Ohana Benevides Rodrigues
Most people think of Neapolitan ice cream when they hear vanilla, chocolate and strawberry, but Ohana Benevides Rodrigues G’22 uses vanilla, chocolate and strawberry to explain one of the main features of the complex world of neutrinos—tiny, nearly massless, chargeless…
‘My Poetry Is a Record of What Happened’ Says Palestinian MFA Student Mosab Abu Toha G’23
The title poem in the debut collection of Mosab Abu Toha G’23 begins with a plea that the surgeon repairing his punctured eardrum save the things he cherishes: his mother’s voice, songs in Arabic, poems in English, chirping birds. “When…
A&S Graduate Student Advocates for Access to Unsanitized History of Kenya and Beyond
Joy Nyokabi Karinge was home in Kenya when she discovered that her grandfather had been tortured, detained and disenfranchised by the British for his part in the Mau Mau war in Kenya, a Kenyan revolt against British colonial rule in…
35 Teaching Assistants Recognized for Outstanding Contributions
The Graduate School is recognizing 35 teaching assistants for outstanding work and valued contributions to the educational experience at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ. Outstanding Teaching Assistants are honored for excellence in their work as classroom teachers, laboratory or studio instructors and recitation…
Maxwell School Ranks No. 1 for Public Affairs in 2024
ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs is ranked No. 1 overall in a survey of its peers and is highly ranked in 10 subspecialties, according to the 2024 U.S. News & World Report Best Public Affairs School…
Human Development and Family Science Graduate Students Present Research at Prestigious Child Development Conference
Five graduate students from the Department of Human Development and Family Science in the Falk College recently presented their work at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. Linghua Jiang, Qingyang Liu, Sanum…
Weissman Scholarship Recipient April Lopez Shares Late Professor’s Vision of Food Justice
April Lopez says she was drawn to ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s food studies master’s program because of its vision of food justice. That vision was shaped in large part by ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Professor Evan Weissman, a tireless advocate for equity in the food…
Graduate Assistants Vote to Unionize
Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: I am writing to provide an update on the graduate assistant union election. During a two-day election process, 764 eligible graduate students cast their votes with 728 voting to unionize. As a result, 1,124 current…
Ph.D. Student Curtis Edmonds Found Community, Cultivated Political Passions on Campus
Wherever Curtis Edmonds has been a student—whether as an undergraduate studying political science at Virginia Commonwealth University, a political science master’s student at George Mason University or in his pursuit of a Ph.D. in political science in the Maxwell School…