Political Science News

11/1/2018 Featured Story

Students Gain Campaign Experience in Midterm Elections

Students Gain Campaign Experience in Midterm Elections

Political science students looking for campaign experience have found plenty of opportunities this year in the open race for the 3rd Congressional District seat and other midterm contests. Many of them cross the border in presidential election years to work in New Hampshire, too.

11/1/2018 Featured Story
9/25/2018 Featured Story

Student Counterterrorism Project Gets Boost from $1 Million Grant

Student Counterterrorism Project Gets Boost from $1 Million Grant

Operation250, which began as a student project to combat terrorism, is the subject of a $1 million U.S. government grant to develop and evaluate its program for teaching children, teenagers, parents and educators about online safety, hate sites and terrorist recruitment tactics.

9/25/2018 Featured Story
9/17/2018 Featured Story

Polling and Parties and Midterms, Oh My!

Polling and Parties and Midterms, Oh My!

Asst. Prof. John Cluverius uses survey research to peer into the minds of voters and politicians. The political scientist and associate director of UML’s Center for Public Opinion shares his insights with students and the media.

9/17/2018 Featured Story
5/4/2018 Featured Story

Congressional Debates Offer a Taste of Democracy in Action

Congressional Debates Offer a Taste of Democracy in Action

Students got to experience democracy first hand at the 3rd Congressional District debates sponsored by UML and The Boston Globe.

5/4/2018 Featured Story
4/6/2018 Featured Story

UML Honors Student Wins Big on Wheel of Fortune

UML Honors Student Wins Big on Wheel of Fortune

Honors student Mansour Chaya won “Wheel of Fortune” by a nose, beating out students from Georgia State and UCLA. Chaya, a political science major, says he’s saving the money for law school.

4/6/2018 Featured Story
1/25/2018 Featured Story

UML’s Hamilton is Smashin’ Every Expectation

UML’s Hamilton is Smashin’ Every Expectation

Sophomore political science major Ryan Hamilton was elected to the Methuen City Council last fall. At 20 years old, he’s serving his first term as “Councilor Hamilton.”

1/25/2018 Featured Story
10/26/2017 Press Release

NBC Political Correspondent to Look Back, Forward at Trump’s First Year

NBC Political Correspondent to Look Back, Forward at Trump’s First Year

NBC News and MSNBC national political correspondent Steve Kornacki will return to campus on Friday, Nov. 17 for an event for the campus and community.

10/26/2017 Press Release
9/18/2017 Featured Story

University Partners with The Washington Post on Sports Polling

University Partners with The Washington Post on Sports Polling

The university partnered with The Washington Post, one of the nation’s top newspapers, on wide-ranging polls examining Americans’ attitudes toward sports. The polls, the first to look at the topic in more than a decade, have received major coverage.

9/18/2017 Featured Story

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