JESUS MAGANA (‘13) was not always sure of his career path.
However, while attending Illinois as a Political Science student, Magaña was the Civic Engagement Intern with the University YMCA on Wright Street. This allowed him to help develop and coordinate a mentorship program that paired high...
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Study Political ScienceWhy did it take so long for women to have the right to vote in the USA? Jeanette Rankin, first Woman elected to Congress, receiving the flag of the House of Representatives upon passage of women's suffrage. Why study political science?
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Alumni Spotlight: Jesus Magaña
Congratulations to all the faculty and teaching assistants on the Spring 2023 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent. A special congratulations to the 15 instructors from the Department of Political Science who are on the list: Spring 2023 Ekin Alpay PS 100 TA Kristin Bail* PS 241 TA Jaeseok Cho PS 230 TA Xinyuan Dai* PS 300 and 494 Paul Diehl* PS 357 Seung-Uk Huh TA 280...
We would like to congratulate Emily Sallenback, who was awarded the 2023 Senior Thesis Award as part of the Political Science Honors Program. We asked Emily to share a bit about her research experiences and future plans! What was the title of your Thesis? There's No "I" in Erdoğan: Predicting Power Personalization with Pronoun Usage in Turkey...
In a paper published in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, Professor Wendy Cho and colleagues studied the racial inequities in health care delivery and outcomes in the U.S. "The big takeaway is that the racial health disparities that we see in the COVID-19 data are really a concern not just for minority populations in the U.S. but for everyone,” she said. “Pandemics highlight...
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- Congratulations to all the faculty and teaching assistants on the Summer and Fall 2022 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent. A special congratulations to the 21 instructors from the Department of Political Science who are on the list: Summer 2022 Hyo-Won Shin PS 241 TA...
- We would like to congratulate Thomas Ballard and Tyeese Braslavsky, who were awarded the 2022 Senior Thesis Award as part of the Political Science Honors Program. We asked Thomas and Tyeese to share a bit about their research experiences and future plans! Thomas Ballard...
- Congratulations to all of the faculty and teaching assistants on the Spring 2022 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent. A special congratulations to the 14 instructors from the Department of Political Science who are on the list: ️Seongjoon Ahn* PS 101 TA ️Robert Carroll PS 231 ️Jaeseok Cho PS...
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