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Shiran Victoria Shen Selected for the Stanford CASBS Summer Institute in AI Methods for Social Scientists

7.9.26

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.

Christopher Lucas Receives Special Honorable Mention for Best Information Technology & Politics Article Award

6.30.26

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

Lucia Motolinia Receives Legislative Studies Emerging Scholar Award from APSA

6.19.26

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.

James Gibson Received the Warren E. Miller Prize from the APSA

6.16.26

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."

Taylor Carlson Receives EPOVB Emerging Scholar Award

6.11.26

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.

Shiran Victoria Shen Secures Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award

5.26.26

Shen was selected as one of only 36 awardees selected from 172 applications from 94 member institutions.

Commencement speakers Popat, Shaver reflect on their time at WashU

5.15.26 | The Source

Graduate student speaker Sejal Popat and undergraduate student speaker, Political Science graduate Mason Shaver, will address fellow graduates today at WashU’s 165th Commencement ceremony. Here, they look back on their journeys to and through WashU.

Undergraduate Spotlight: Three Students Making an Impact at WashU and Beyond

5.14.26

Meet three undergraduate political science majors making an impact in St. Louis, Washington, DC, and beyond.

Michael Strawbridge named 2026 Andrew Carnegie fellow

5.6.26 | The Ampersand

Taylor Carlson Receives the 2026 AAPOR Book Award

5.5.26

The award, given by the American Association for Public Opinion Research, seeks to recognize influential books that have stimulated theoretical and scientific research in public opinion and/or influenced our understanding or application of survey research methodology.

Michael Strawbridge Named a 2026 Andrew Carnegie Fellow

5.5.26

The prestigious award provides Strawbridge a $200,000 research stipend for his project, "In the Thick of It: The Relationship Among Black People, Black Spaces, and Black Political Unity."

Stephanie Shady Receives ArtSci Council Award for Excellence in Teaching

5.4.26

The Excellence in Teaching Award, formerly known as the Distinguished Teaching Award, was established to honor and publicly recognize an outstanding faculty member in Arts & Sciences for exceptional teaching. The award is determined by student nominations.