- Congratulations to our
graduating majors!
- On Thursday, May 1, from 6
to 8:30 pm, Pre-Law Advisor Prof. Donna Axel arranged to
have Sonji Patrick from PRLDEF
and Lynda Cevallos from CLEO
to come and speak about preparing for law school and the
law school admissions process. The event was held in
P-203 (Professional Studies Building; space is limited so
arrive on time).
- On Saturday, 26 April our
colleagues in the Philosophy
Department are
presenting a full day symposium on Greek Philosophy in
Room 129 of the newly refurbished Student Union Building.
Professor Fran Moran from our department will be
presenting a paper entitled "Thucydides Today: From
the Peloponnesus to Iraq" at 2:30. The full program is
available here
as a .pdf file.
- On Thursday, 24 April, our
colleagues in the Mathematics Department celebrating
Math
Awareness Month
with a program
entitled "What Makes Your Vote Matter? Let Mathematics
and Statistics Show You," a series of short talks over to
the mathematics of voting (click the link for a pdf file
of the program). The event is being held in the
Grossnickle Auditorium (G-144), from 9 a.m until 12:30
pm, and Professor Fran Moran from our department will be
presenting a talk at 9:05 am entitled "Jumping on the
Bandwagon: The Geometry of the 2008 Primary Season."
- On Thursday, 3 April, at
7:00 in the Gothic Lounge (Hepburn 202) the Political
Science Department and the Political Science Alliance
sponsored a
forum on Hudson
County politics. Featured speakers included: Hoboken
councilman Peter Camarrano, Bayonne councilman and NJCU
alumnus Anthony Chiappone, and Jersey Journal
reporter Earl Morgan. The event was moderated by
Professor Thurman Hart.
- On March 29, political
science majors April Kuzas and Alex Nielson presented the
preliminary results of their independent study project at
the 69th
Annual Meeting of the Pennnsylvania Political Science
Association at
the State Capitol, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
- Click here
for a list of fall coop opportunities. Contact
Chris
Cofone at the
Co-op office, Vodra 101, for more details.
- March was Women's History
Month. Here's
the program. For further information contact Dr.
Catherine Raissiguier of the Women's
and Gender Studies
Program at ext.
3551 or Karen DeAngelis of the Speicher-Rubin
Women's Center at
ext. 3189.
- The New Jersey Political
Science Association is holding its annual conference on
Friday, 29 February from 9 to 3:30 pm at the Eagleton
Institute of Rutgers University, New Bruckwick New
Jersey. There is no registration fee for the conference,
and lunch is included. This year's panels are: T"he
Presidential Election: The New Jersey Perspective,"
"Women in New Jersey Politics," and Teaching State &
Local Politics in New Jersey." Contact
Prof.
Moskowitz
(jmoskowitz@njcu.edu) for more info.
- February is Black History
Month, and our colleagues at the Lee
Hagan Africana Studies
Center have
organized an exciting series of events
and films
throughout the month that should be of interest to our
majors, minors, and friends. Their next event is on 14
February, from 12:00-2:00 pm in H202. It's a panel
discussion presented by Dr. Dennis Raverty (NJCU Art
Department) with Jamal Hinnant (Black Freeedom Society)
and Amani Jennings entitled: "Images of Blackness:
Media/Art and Hip-Hop as Resistance."
- On Super Tuesday, February
5, the Department co-hosted a successful
Primary
Election Returns
Night with Office
of Campus Life and the Student Government Organization.
Thanks to all the friends and colleagues who
attended.
- On Monday, 28 January, the
Political
Science Alliance,
Psi
Sigma Phi
fraternity, and
the Department hosted an informational Question and
Answer/Roundtable Discussion on the Super Tuesday
presidential primaries.
- The Political
Science Alliance
and our Student Government Organization
sponsored
a talk with
Democratic Presidential candidate and Ohio Representative
Dennis Kucinich on Monday, November 19.
- Our colleagues in the
Philosophy and Religion Department presented their annual
"Adventures
in Philosophy"
series of lectures on November 13, 14, and 17
- The Department has created a
new listserv for majors, minors, and friends of the
department. To subscribe to this list, send an email to:
listserv@njcu.edu
with "Subscribe" as the subject and in the text of
the message write:
SUBSCRIBE POLISCI (YOUR
NAME, no parentheses)
For example: SUBSCRIBE POLISCI Jane Doe
- Our semi-annual PRE-LAW
Event was held on Thursday, 18 October from 1 to 3:30 and
from 7:15 to 9:30. The afternoon session, "Money, LSATs,
and Admissions," featured Karen DeAngelis (The Women's
Center), Eva Lana (LSAT Prep), and Pershia Wilkins
(Albany Law School) in S-116 and S-118. The evening
session, "The Private Sector: Pathways to Success," was a
panel discussion featuring Dara Govan (Riker Danzig
Scherer Hyland & Perretti LLP) and John T. Herbert
(Pfizer Inc., Legal Department) (H-202).
- Constitution Day 2007
program powerpoints are available here.
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