The Best Dissertation Prize is awarded for the best dissertation on women and politics completed and accepted in the previous year.

The article examines how major climate patterns—including El Niño and the Indian Ocean Dipole—shape the risk of armed conflict around the world.

The Summer Institute in AI Methods for Social Scientists (AIMS) brings together scholars from across the social sciences for an intensive week of learning, practice, and collaboration in the ways to make use of AI methods in social science research.

The Weidenbaum Center has awarded $45,000 for the upcoming academic year to support three exceptional PhD students in Political Science, Economics, and Sociology through the 2026-2027 Weidenbaum Graduate Fellowship.

The Best Published Article Award recognizes the best scholarly article published about Information Technology and Politics.

The Emerging Scholar award is designed to recognize a scholar who is no more than 6 years from the year of their PhD who has informed the study of legislative politics through innovative and rigorous scholarship.

The award, granted from the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior section, is given every 2-3 years for "an outstanding career of intellectual accomplishment and service to the profession in the EPOVB field."

The award, granted from the APSA's Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior section, is presented to top scholars in the field who are within ten years of the PhD.

Political Science faculty, and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Dan Butler, says by opting out of the primaries, people give power to the leaders of the parties to pursue agendas that are not responsive to moderate voters' preferences.

The humanities center welcomes six rising juniors to its signature two-year undergraduate research fellowship.