Congratulations to Dr. Magda Giurcanu, who has been recently awarded a GESIS- Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences grant to visit the EUROLAB in Cologne, Germany. The grant, which includes €950 for travel and a month of housing, will allow her to spend June 2017 in Cologne accessing European datasets located at the GESIS DATA archive. These new data will contribute to a research project she is currently working on, titled “The Emergence of New Anti-EU Parties in EP Elections: Strategic Elite Calculations and European Union Debates.”
Drs. Giurcanu and Krishnan Announce “Visegrad in the 21st Century”
Drs. Magda Giurcanu and Armin Krishnan are very happy to announce the launch of a new course “Visegrad in the 21st century” made possible by a three-year University Studies Grant from the International Visegrad Fund in Bratislava, Slovakia. The €18, 503 funds received from the Visegrad Group will be used to raise awareness on the security threats and geostrategic opportunities the Eastern European Visegrad states are facing after the fall of the Soviet Union. In addition, the course and the ECE community will tremendously benefit from the visits, talks, and presentations of at least six scholars from the Visegrad states (Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, and Slovakia) that will be organized starting this coming fall.
Congratulations to Dr. Baumgartner on his 2017 University Scholar Designation!
Dr. Jody Baumgartner has been designated as a 2017 University Scholar. The University Scholars Program was established to recognize exceptional scholarship at East Carolina University as defined by discipline specific criteria. Each year, academic units nominate faculty members deemed to represent excellence in their discipline. The University Research Council reviews the nominees and conveys the designation. Sixty-six faculty members have been designated as University Scholars, making you a member of an elite group at this institution.
Please Join Us in Congratulating Leshaun Jenkins!
Leshaun, ECU Political Science 2000, has been named as one of the Class of 2017 “40 Under 40” Leadership Award Honorees. He teaches social sciences at Tarboro High School,
The “40 Under 40” Leadership Awards Committee worked diligently to complete a very competitive selection process of the recipients. Consideration is a tribute to each nominee’s ability to use education to pursue their passion to lead positive change through leadership and service. All nominees were exceptionally accomplished, committed leaders, making the committee’s decision was extremely challenging.
The 2017 Class of “40 Under 40” will be honored at the Division Student Affairs 3rd Annual Corporate & Leadership Awards Banquet on Saturday, April 22, 2017 at 6:00pm. For more information, please visit our WEBSITE.
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Congratulations Dr. Francia!
Our own Dr. Peter Francia, Professor of Political Science, was recently named Director of the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences (THCAS) Center for Survey Research. Watch out Quinnipiac University Poll!