Association News
C. Vladeck, Director, Health Care Financing Administration, U.S. De- partment of Health and Human Ser- vices. Vladeck received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan. Washington Post na- tional correspondent E.J. Dionne was selected as winner of the 1996 Carey McWilliams Award honoring his contribution to our understand- ing of politics. Details on awards presented by the Organized Sections appears later in Association News.
APSA Welcomes Graduate Students at San Francisco Meeting Graduate students are an integral Herbert Kitschelt, Duke University, receives the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best part of the APSA Annual Meeting, book published in 1995 on government, politics, or international affairs. Title of his book: The and this year over 1500 attended. Radical Right in Western Europe (University of Michigan Press). Presenting the award is Virginia Graduate students delivered papers Sapiro, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Award Committee Chair. in the approximately 650 panels and roundtables during the 1996 meet- ing, and could also be found among ties. This year 96 institutions were Kira Poplowski, University of Cali- the 250 scholars presenting posters represented and 177 job openings fornia-Santa Barbara at the Annual Meeting poster ses- were posted. J. L. Jeffries, University of Southern sions. Finally, students attended the An- California nual Graduate Student Reception, Gene Brewer, University of Georgia Several events and services tar- where they received a special wel- Andrew Barnes, Princeton University geted graduate students in San Fran- come from President Arend Lijphart Jeff J. Corntassel, University of Ari- cisco, including two forms of infor- and President-Elect Elinor Ostrom. zona mal exchanges with senior scholars. Held at the Crowne Plaza Pare Fif- Patrice M. Mareschal, University of "Breakfast with Champions" gave ty-Five Hotel, students mingled with Oklahoma students the opportunity to partici- other students and with many of the pate in relaxed roundtable discus- Scott H. Huffmon, University of Mis- nation's most respected political sissippi sions with renowned political scien- scientists. tists. Discussions ranged from career Peter Stone, University of Rochester planning and networking relation- Robert H. Bruhl, University of Illi- ships, to balancing family responsi- nois at Chicago bilities, formulating research, and APSA Awards Advanced Janice M. Googin, Brown University improvements in teaching skills. Graduate Student Marie Gottschalk, Yale University Travel Grants Paul G. Harris, Brandeis University At the Annual Meeting's Leading Paul A. Harris, Auburn University Scholar series, the graduate students Heather Trippel, Purdue University participated in roundtable sessions In a continuing effort to assist graduate students slated to present Douglas M. Gibler, Vanderbilt Uni- with two legendary scholars. Gabriel versity A. Almond and Heinz Eulau, both papers at the annual meeting, the of Stanford University and both Association again offered its Ad- former APSA presidents, discussed vanced Graduate Student Travel the evolution of political science, Grant Program. With funding through the APSA Council, 18 travel Annual Meeting Short and the controversies that have re- Courses Promote Professional constructed the discipline in recent grants were awarded. Nearly 90 ap- decades. plications were submitted. The Development names and affiliations of winners The Professional Placement Ser- follow: Ten short courses were offered in vice, located in the Hotel Nikko San San Francisco the day before this Francisco, attracted over 600 appli- Russell Lightfoot, Miami University year's Annual Meeting began. As cants. The Service offers an opportu- Tom Lewis, University of Washing- part of the Annual Meeting's "Pro- nity for institutions to meet job can- ton fessional Day" program, several didates face-to-face and discuss Steven Lobell, University of Califor- APSA Organized Sections and the prospective employment opportuni- nia-Los Angeles National Issues Forum sponsored
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