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Alumni News Archives
Welcome to our new Alumni News Section! If you are a UNC Chapel Hill alumni and would like us to list your activities and achievements on our site, please e-mail your information and updates to iklewis@email.unc.edu. You can also call 919-843-3922 or send postal mail to Kyna Lewis, 356 Hamilton Hall, CB 3265, UNC at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599.
August 2003
8/25/03 Mark S. Jendrysik, a 1996 Ph.D. graduate, has been promoted to tenured Associate Professor at the University of North Dakota
June 2003
6/3/03 Anne Marie Choup, a 2001 Ph.D. graduate, published an article, "Limits to Democratic Development in Civil Society and the State: The Case of Santo Domingo," in Development and Change (2003). Choup is an assistant professor of government at Mills College in Oakland, CA. May 2003
5/28/03 Frederick Slocum, who received his B.A. 1989, recently received tenure and a promotion to associate professor in the Department of Political Science/Law Enforcement at Minnesota State University, Mankato. 5/8/03 Beth Elise Whitaker, who graduated with a Ph.D. in political science, will be guest speaker at the inaugural Graduate School doctoral hooding ceremony, which will take place May 17 at 10 a.m. on Polk Place. Whitaker is an assistant professor in the UNC-Charlotte Department of Political Science. Click here to read her speech.
March 2003
3/20/03 David Downie, who received his political science Ph.D in 1996, recently published Northern Lights Against POPs: Combating Toxic Threats in the Arctic (McGill-Queens University Press, 2003). David remains at Columbia University, where he has taught courses in environmental politics since 1994. At Columbia, he currently serves as Director of Educational Partnerships and Director of the Fellows Program at the Earth Institute in addition to his other teaching and research activities. From 1994-2000, he served as Director of Environmental Policy Studies at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. 3/12/03 Alumnae Whitaker to Speak at New Doctoral Hooding Ceremony 3/10/03 Kerry L. Haynie, who received both his BA (1985, Political Science and Peace, War, and Defense) and his Ph.D. (1994) from UNC, will join the Duke Political Science Department as a tenured associate professor beginning July 1, 2003. Haynie is currently an associate professor and Interim Director of the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy at Rutgers University. Prior to Rutgers, he was a member of the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania (1994-96). 3/10/03 David Downie (Ph.D., Political Science, UNC, 1996) recently published Northern Lights Against POPs: Combating Toxic Threats in the Arctic (McGill-Queens University Press, 2003). David remains at Columbia University, where he has taught courses in environmental politics since 1994. At Columbia, he currently serves as Director of Educational Partnerships and Director of the Fellows Program at the Earth Institute in addition to his other teaching and research activities. From 1994-2000, he served as Director of Environmental Policy Studies at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. 3/5/03 Kevin J. Martin, a 1989 graduate with a BA in political science, is currently the youngest member of the Federal Communications Commission. He was nominated by President Bush in 2001 to serve as an FCC commissioner. The nomination was approved by the Senate and he assumed the post that same year. His term expires in June 2006.
Previously, Martin was a lawyer with the Washington law firm Wiley, Rein & Fielding, an advisor to the former FCC commissioner, and deputy general counsel to Bush's election campaign.
February 2003
2/27/03 Gordon Mercer, who received his MA in political science from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1965, recently accepted a position as the associate dean of Western Carolina University's (WCU) Graduate School.
After graduating from UNC, Mercer earned his Ph.D. from the University of Florida. He went on to work for the U. S. Department of Education and later the National Institute of Education. Before accepting his current position at Western Carolina University, Mercer chaired the WCU department of political science and later directed the school's Public Policy Institute.
2/26/03 Jessica Swinehart, a 2000 graduate with a BA in political science, is currently working for Congressman Cass Ballenger (R-NC) and studying at Johns Hopkins University to receive her Masters in Government.
January 2003
1/27/03 Curtis R. Ryan, who received his political science Ph.D. from UNC in 1995, was tenured and promoted in 2000 at Mary Washington College in Virginia. Curtis has recently moved back to North Carolina, where he is an assistant professor of political science at Appalachian State University in Boone. 1/16/03 Circle of Benches to Memorialize Late Senator 1/16/03 Kevin DeGood, a 2002 graduate with a BA in political science, has accepted a position as staff assistant for Congressman Rick Boucher, a Democrat from Virginia's 9th district. 1/3/03 UNC Friends Seeking Memorial to Honor the Late Sen. Wellstone
December 2002
| 12/19/02 |
In 1977, Ernest J. Yanarella ('71) published the book The Missile Defense Controversy: Strategy, Technology, and Politics, 1955-1972, which was based on his UNC political science graduate dissertation "Pentagon Decisionmaking and Bureaucratic Politics in the ABM Controversy, 1955-1967." Recently, Yanarella was invited to write an updated and expanded edition of his original book. Published in October 2002, the new book is entitled The Missile Defense Controversy: Technology in Search of a Mission (2nd Expanded Edition). Yanarella has also published several other books, and his articles can be seen in professional journals such as International Interactions; Social Science Quarterly; Polity, Theory and Society; Review of Politics; Journal of Peace Research; Future; Canadian Journal of Sociology; Built Environment; and Quebec Studies. Yanarella is a professor of political science at the University of Kentucky (UK). The Associate Director of UK's Center for Sustainable Cities and Director of Environmental Studies Program in UK's College of Arts and Sciences, he is presently collaborating on a two-county prison project exploring public attitudes toward prison recruitment as local economic development policy. He is also a board member of the Kentucky-Canadian Studies Roundtable. |
| 12/19/02 |
Congressman "Mike" McIntyre ('78) has won three separate honors for his work in economic development. He was recently selected as the very first recipient on the international level of the Public Policy Award for Advocating Workforce Development by the International Association of Personnel in Employment Security. Among other things, McIntyre has authored legislation that would establish the Southeast Crescent Authority, a regional commission that would focus on job training, economic development, health care, business entrepreneurship, fighting poverty, and helping education in economically-distressed area of seven southeastern states. He also introduced a legislative initiative that ultimately passed the US House of Representatives by a 420-3 vote that would extend economic assistance to displaced workers who are training for new job skills under the Trade Assistance Act. McIntyre has been recognized with two other awards for his work in economic development: The National Association of Development Organization chose him for the Congressional Partnership Award "for outstanding leadership in promoting regional economic development." And the Southern Economic Development Council named him to the Honor Roll of Legislative Achievement in Economic Development in recognition of legislation "that will enhance the economic vitality and growth within the American South." McIntyre is currently serving his third term in Congress and spoke at UNC Chapel Hill during the spring of 2002. He lives in his hometown of Lumberton with his wife Dee. Their two sons, Joshua and Stephen, are both students at UNC. |
October 2002
| 10/30/02 | Senator Paul Wellstone was the "Real Thing", article in the University Gazette |
| 10/30/02 | UNC Political Science Alumnus Senator Paul Wellstone Dies in Plane Crash |
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