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Mayesha Alam selected as one of the 30 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans recipients! Mayesha Alam, a first year graduate student in our Ph.D. program, has just been selected as one of the 30 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans recipients! “The...	Professor Eric Schickler, PhD. Yale, 1997, inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Professor Eric Schickler, PhD. Yale, 1997, has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Schickler is currently the Jeffrey & Ashley...	Professor Jacob Hacker, Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Professor Jacob Hacker, Yale University, has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Hacker is currently the Director of the Institution for...
Professor Onur Bakiner, PhD. Yale, 2011, publishes on Truth Commissions Professor Onur Bakiner’s (PhD. Yale, 2011) new Book, Truth Commissions: Memory, Power and Legitimacy, examines the success of truth commissions in promoting policy...	Predicting Taliban Attacks: Q&A with Political Scientist Jason Lyall A recent study co-authored by Yale political scientist Jason Lyall provides evidence that “hearts-and-minds” aid programs have an unintended consequence: Taliban insurgents...	Yale Political Science Major Simone Seiver is named Gates Cambridge Scholar Yale senior Simone Seiver is among the 36 U.S. citizens who have been selected to be part of the 2017 class of Gates Cambridge Scholars at the University of Cambridge. Seiver...
John Roemer's new book, "Sustainability for a Warming Planet", has been awarded the X Prize of the Catalan Society of Economics. John Roemer, together with his co-authors, Humberto Llavador and J. Silvestre, were awarded the X Prize of the Catalan Society of Economics for their book Sustainabiiity for...