UMass Lowell’s Model U.N. team won the award for best delegation at a Model U.N. conference in Scotland over spring break. The team also went to the national competition for Model Arab League a week later and brought home several delegate awards.

The “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement in Iran is much more than a struggle over whether women must wear the hijab, said exiled feminist activist, poet and scholar Fatemeh Shams, the 2024 Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies.

Marty Walsh discussed his career path from politics to sports as part of the Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Dean's Speaker Series.

NBC News and MSNBC National Political Correspondent Steve Kornacki shared insight into the upcoming presidential election, based on recent midterm elections and polls of voters.

Political Science Assoc. Prof. Adam Lerner explores the topic of collective trauma, analyzing the effects of mass violence in his book “From the Ashes of History: Collective Trauma and the Making of International Politics.”

Due to the continued effects of climate change coupled with the unstable relationship between the United States and China as a goods supplier, Asst. Prof. of Political Science Jarrod Hayes says Americans should prepare for prolonged inflation.

Soe Myint, this year’s Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies, is co-founder of an independent, Myanmar-based news organization that has operated clandestinely since the military coup last year. He spoke about his country’s struggle for democracy and the role of media in combating disinformation.

Political Science Prof. Ardeth Thawnghmung won a Fulbright Public Policy Fellowship in 2020 to do research on internal migration in her native Myanmar. When it was postponed due to COVID-19 and then canceled after the 2021 military coup, she pivoted to help a nonprofit target food aid.