Graduate Highlights
February 2009:
UCF alum Judge Jose Rodriguez (Ninth Judicial Circuit) as the State Elected Official of the Year.
January 2009:
Jenna Cawly received the department's Outstanding MA Thesis award for 2008. Her thesis, "Sex Education Policy in Florida: Strategies for Change” examined K-12 sex education policy as a federalism issue, and contextualizes it further to show how differences in sex education policy across counties are related to teen pregnancy rates. The thesis identified possible legislative solutions to the high teen pregnancy rate in Florida compared with other states, and the economic and social burden that teen pregnancy brings. In showing that counties with comprehensive sex-education policies show lower teen pregnancy rates than do those counties mandating an abstinence-only curriculum, the thesis proposes that there be a state-level standard for sex education while also acknowledging that both public and elite opinion will play key roles in the likelihood that a statewide standard based on best practices will be accomplished. The thesis was chaired by Dr. Terri Fine.
April 2008:
Graham Cage was selected as one of five winners for Best in Category for his presentation titled, "The Caspian Sea's Key Position in International Terrorism" in the Social Sciences category at the 2008 Graduate Research Forum.
September 2007:
Robert Scaife will be interning for the US House Subcommittee on Europe from September 1 - December 31, where he will be handling the administrative operations of the office and conducting legislative and foreign affairs research, as well as completing his thesis research on effects of EU conditionality on human trafficking.
September 2007: Graduate Student Robert Scaife will be interning for the US House Subcommittee on Europe from September 1 - December 31, where he will be handling the administrative operations of the office and conducting legislative and foreign affairs research, as well as completing his thesis research on effects of EU conditionality on human trafficking.
June 2006: Graduate Student Dave Feinman will be interning in the Washington DC office of U.S. Congressman Robert Wexler (FL-19) from June 5-30, monitoring congressional hearings and researching legislative issues, as well as completing his thesis research on congressional ethics reform.
May 2006: Graduate student Robert Scaife was awarded the Fulbright Fellowship for Austria to complete his thesis research on human trafficking in Eastern and Central Europe. Robert will be in Graz, Austria, during the 2006-07 school year and attend classes at Karl-Franzens Universitaet.
April 2005:
Celeste Bulkley and Matthew Keaton were nominated to UCF Graduate Studies for a Provost Fellowship.
March 2005:
Delia Goolsby (completed Political Science MA in Spring 2004) was selected for the College of Arts and Sciences 2004-2005 Award for the Outstanding Master's Thesis. This recognition nominated her to the university level, where Ms. Goolsby was selected by the UCF Graduate Council as a recipient of the University Award for Outstanding Master's Thesis.
