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In November 2019, The Harshini de Silva Graduate Mentor selection committee named Dr. Suzanne Leland the 2020 recipient.

Dr. James Walsh received the First Citizens Scholar Award in November 2019.

In October 2019, Dr. Amber Knight and Dr. Joshua Miller presented their paper “Making Prenatal Screening Work for Women: Promoting Epistemic Justice for the Sake of Reproductive Autonomy” at the Association for Politial Theory Annual Conference at the University of California at Irvine.

On October 2, 2019, Bill Brandon, Jim Douglas, Eric Heberlig and Suzanne Leland honored faculty emeritus Ken Godwin at “Talking Policy in the Queen City and announced a new student Fellowship in Dr. Godwin’s name.

The UNC Charlotte delegation hosted the September (2019) Interim Council of the North Carolina Student Legislature. Nineteen members of our delegation attended. Seven UNCC delegates introduced resolutions, all of them passed. Joshua Wiggins won the Best Resolution Award for his resolution on Tuition for Veterans. Jacob Baum, Jonathan Spruill, and Joshua Wiggins were nominated for […]

Our North Carolina Student Legislature delegation participated in October 2019 debates at Campbell University and November 2019 debates at Lenoir Rhyne College. At the October Interim Council, our delegation passed 4 of the 6 resolutions they introduced. Zachary Saunders won the Best Speaker Award and Sarah Dunning won the Best Resolution Award for her resolution […]

The UNC Charlotte Model UN team traveled to Atlanta Georgia to participate in the Southern Regional Model UN conference. Thirty-five students attended. With the exception of three delegates, all students attending were new and this was their first major conference. They did very well taking home a Distinguished Delegation award, two outstanding delegate awards, and […]

Jim Douglas, Zach Mohr and Ringa Raudla published a comparative public administrative article on the use of cost accounting in Public Administrative Review http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/puar.13162.

Suzanne Leland, Jacqueline Chattopadhyay, Jaclyn Piatak and Cherie Maestas had an article titled “Policy Venue Preference and Relative Trust in Government in a Federal System” accepted for publication in Governance. Suzanne Leland, Olga Smirnova and Chris Goodman had an article titled “The Consequences of Specialized Governance on Spending and Expansion of Public Transit” accepted for […]

Mel Atkinson presented “Women at War: Debating Defense in the U.S. House of Representatives” (coauthored with Jasonn Windett and Reza Mousavi) at the annual MPSA conference in Chicago, (April 2019)