Departmental Activities
April 16-19, 2009 Wes Chapin leads the International Relations Club to the Arrowhead Model UN Conference at Minnesota State University-Mankato. The Club represented Austria and Libya.
March 3, 2009 For Coffee with The Times, Davida Alperin lead the discussion on "The Obama Presidency: First Impressions."
March 2009 Wes Chapin is leading a group of students to Europe as part of a course focusing on the Politics, Culture, and History of German-speaking Europe: destinations, Berlin, Munich, and Vienna, http://www.uwrf.edu/globalconnections/tours/germany.html.
February 17, 2009 Wes Chapin was interviewed by Andy Rathbun of the St. Paul Pioneer Press for a story about the Feb. 17 Wisconsin primary. Details.
February 16, 2009 Neil Kraus moderated the Third Annual President's Day Debate on campus, featuring the College Democrats, College Republicans, and Union of Democratic Progressives.
February 12, 2009 Davida Alperin, Wes Chapin, and Neil Kraus served on the discussion panel focusing on the Minnesota Senate Race. The event was sponsored by the American Democracy Project.
November 21, 2008 Neil Kraus
was cited and quoted in Minn Post article in the article “A better way to integrate schools: by race and class,” by Cynthia Boyd and Beth Hawkins, http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2008/11/21/4760/ .
November 13, 2008 Neil Kraus
gave a lecture entitled “The Effects of the 2008 Election on Western Wisconsin,” at the Synergy Conference: The Dawn of an Innovative Economy, http://wcw-synergy.net/ .
November 11, 2008 Neil Kraus
gave a talk entitled “The Significance of the 2008 Election,” to the River Falls Rotary Club.
November 6, 2008 The Political Science Department was ranked as the top program at the University in one of three evaluations by faculty and staff designed to identify strengths and areas of potential growth.
November 2008 Neil Kraus was quoted in the Monitor (St. Paul community monthly newspaper), in the article “Heated Debate over RS Eden leaves Como neighbors evaluating next steps,” by Jan Williams, http://www.monitorsaintpaul.com/mainstory.html .
October 31, 2008 Neil Kraus was a guest on the Conversations with Joy Cardin show (Wisconsin Public Radio), discussing “The Week in Review,” http://wpr.org/webcasting/ .
October 31, 2008 Wes Chapin was a guest on the Conversations with Joy Cardin show (Wisconsin Public Radio), discussing “The 2008 Elections,” http://wpr.org/webcasting/ .
October 23, 2008 Wes Chapin was a guest on WRFW, discussing “The U.S. Presidential Election,” http://www.uwrf.edu/wrfw/ .
October 20, 2008 Davida Alperin was a guest speaker to employees of the Hudson, Wisconsin office of Xcel Energy on the 2008 Presidential Election.
October 15, 2008 Neil Kraus gave a talk entitled “The 2008 Election,” to the River Falls Mothers' Group
October 10, 2008 Wes Chapin was a guest on FM107, Scottish Talk Radio, discussing “The U.S. Presidential Election Process,” http://www.talk107.co.uk/ .
September 15, 2008 Wes Chapin and Neil Kraus made a guest presentation to the Communications Studies and Theatre Arts Special Topic course focusing on the “Wisconsin Elections: Districts, Issues, and Processes.”
August 29, 2008 Wes Chapin was a guest on the Conversations with Joy Cardin show (Wisconsin Public Radio), discussing “The Democratic National Convention,” http://wpr.org/webcasting/ .
August 2008 Sherry Gray joined the Department as an instructor, teaching POLS 348 Politics of East Asia. Dr. Gray has taught comparative politics and Asian Studies, and lived and worked in China. From 1992-1995 she was executive director of the Program for International Studies in Asia and has been a program officer in the US foreign policy department of the Stanley Foundation, http://www.uwrf.edu/polsci/facultygray.html .
August 2008 Wes Chapin was promoted from Associate to Full Professor of Political Science, http://www.uwrf.edu/polsci/images/ .
August 2008 Neil Kraus presented the paper “‘The Choice is Yours' in Minneapolis: The Mixed Results of Busing Urban Students to Suburban Schools,” at the American Political Science Association Conference http://www.apsanet.org/content_56449.cfm .
July 11, 2008 Wes Chapin was a guest on the Conversations with Joy Cardin show (Wisconsin Public Radio), discussing “Wisconsin's Role in the Presidential Election,” http://wpr.org/webcasting/ .
July 2008 Wes Chapin was the recipient of a UW-RF Retention Award.
May 2008 Wes Chapin was the recipient (with Terry Brown, Zhigou Yang, and Kristine Butler) of a United States Department of Education Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program Grant to develop Asian Studies at the UW-RF, http://www.uwrf.edu/pa/2008/0805/0521085.htm .
May 2008 Neil Kraus published the article entitled “Concentrated Poverty and Urban School Reform: ‘The Choice is Yours' in Minneapolis," in the journal Equity & Excellence in Education http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10665684.asp .
April 2008 Neil Kraus served as Chair and Discussant, “Politics in New York” panel, New York State Political Science Association Annual Conference http://www.nyspsa.org/ .
April 10-13, 2008 The International Relations Club (formerly called the Model United Nations Club) participated in the 32nd Annual Arrowhead Model United Nations Conference in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Advisor Wes Chapin served as the chair of The Social and Humanitarian Committee, and as a judge for the General Assembly, http://www.amunc.org/ .
April 1, 2008 Wes Chapin was a guest on FM107, Scottish Talk Radio, discussing “The Democratic Presidential Primary,” http://www.talk107.co.uk/ .
Spring 2008 Wes Chapin and the Department were the recipients of a UW-River Falls Foundation College Alumni Grant.
February 26, 2008
Wes Chapin was a guest on FM107, Scottish Talk Radio, discussing “Campaign Tactics and the Presidential Elections,” http://www.talk107.co.uk/ .
January 4, 2008 Wes Chapin was a guest on FM107, Scottish Talk Radio, discussing “The Iowa Caucus and the Presidential Elections,” http://www.talk107.co.uk/ .
January 2008 Tracey Gladstone was the recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences University Service Award, http://www.uwrf.edu/cas/awards-service.htm .
Fall 2007 “The Value of Political Science,” an article by Wes Chapin, was accepted for 2008 publication in the Wisconsin Political Scientist, http://www.uwosh.edu/political_science/WPS.php .
September 2007
Wes Chapin was awarded a certificate of recognition from the American Political Science Associaton and Pi Sigma Alpha, the Political Science Honor Society, for “Outstanding Teaching in Political Science,” http://journals.cambridge.org/ .
August 2007
Neil Kraus presented the paper, “The Elephant in the Room: Public Opinion and Policy Outcomes in Urban Politics,” at the American Political Science Association Annual Conference http://www.apsanet.org/content_43579.cfm .
