As part of a continuing effort to bring community members and city leaders on campus to engage with students, the Straayer Center for Public Service Leadership and the Department of Political Science hosted a series of events to support and educate members of the campus community prior to the 2022 election.
Abi Tekeste and Giselle Alpizar-Calixto use their summer internship experience with CSU Extension to understand the language barriers to healthcare, and to provide information and resources, in rural Colorado in a project called Spanish in Professional Environments.
This summer, political science major Aidan Lyde worked on the Community Networks in Fire-Environment Resilience (CoNIFER) Project to improve the understanding of wildfire risk mitigation planning based on wildfire protection plans in Colorado with CSU Extension.
Commitment is the word that comes to mind when thinking about Donn and Linda Hopkins. Whether it’s a commitment to the community through police work and economic development, or a commitment to help others through local non-profit boards, this longtime CSU couple have been rightly named community ambassadors.
Many people in the U.K. don’t remember what life was like before Queen Elizabeth II took the throne. Peter Harris, an associate professor of political science at CSU, discussed what her death will mean for international relations and what’s next for the British monarchy.
Jackson Hunter has served as the president of the Liberal Arts Dean’s Leadership Council and competed in the 2022 World Championships for Irish Dance while earning his two degrees in political science and history.
Julia Choolwe Munsaka’s interest in international relations stems from her Zambian roots. She is now pursuing her Ph.D. at CSU to focus on environmental policy, particularly how climate change is considered in diplomatic discussions in the developing world.
Even when relations between Moscow and the West soured, the Arctic Council’s work was a reminder that multilateral partnerships could thrive despite global discord.
On Thursday, March 3, the CSU Department of Political Science hosted a virtual discussion of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, hoping to answer questions about what led to the war, how it may proceed, and what may be the consequences.