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Student Awards

The Political Science Department gives four awards to outstanding graduating senior majors each spring. 

 

 

The C. H. Richards Award for Excellence in Political Science is given to the graduating senior who is deemed by a departmental committee to have excelled in both the study of politics and in departmental, campus and community service.
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The Jack D. Fleer Award for Excellence in Honors in Political Science is given to a graduating senior who has qualified for Honors and who is deemed by a departmental committee to have written the best senior seminar paper. fleer
The Carl Moses Excellence in Research Award honors an outstanding senior seminar paper. moses
The Jack D. and Martha H. Fleer Scholarship is awarded annually to a graduating senior. The need-based scholarship recipient will be selected by a departmental committee which gives special attention to meritorious performance in the major. fleer

In 2011 Carey Alice Carpenter was awarded the C.H. Richards Award for Excellence in Political Science. Carey will be working as a Federal Analyst for Deloitte Consulting.  The winner of the Jack D. Fleer Award for Excellence in Honors was Randy Paris. He received the award for his senior paper “A Compass through the Storm: What Presidents Tell Us When Reality Confronts the American Dream.” Randy will be working in the White House as a member of the Presidential Personnel Office. Marc Legrand won the Carl Moses Excellence in Research Award for this senior paper “Boon or Doom: Health Care Reform in the 2010 Congressional Elections.” He will be attending Law School at Columbia University. Martin Shull was the first recipient of the Jack D. and Martha H. Fleer Scholarship. His postgraduate plans involve working at a law firm before applying to law school.  

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