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Dr. Lance Hunter, assistant professor of political science, explains how fatal terrorist attacks can affect elections and voter turnout.
Augusta University’s Department of Sociology, Criminal Justice, and Social Work is celebrating 50 years of being a department on the Summerville Campus with a party from 4-6 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 21, in the JSAC Ballroom. According to Dr. Kim Davies...
Dr. Margaret Kosal, associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will visit the Department of Political Science on Oct. 24 and 25 to present “WMD Proliferation & Emerging Technology:...
Dr. Gregg Murray, chair of the Department of Political Science at Augusta University, sat down with the Jagwire team to discuss why so few third-party candidates find success during election season. (Short answer? Because the political deck is...
A new BuzzFeed News article tackles student questions about the cost of accessing digital textbooks. At Augusta University, however, professors like Dr. David Hunt are using online texts without requiring students to buy access to a learning program...
As the news coverage of the 2016 presidential election continues, many are wondering if they can trust the media to accurately report election polls. With the sampling variations of survey research, Political Science Professor Martha Ginn suggest...
The Nonprofit Leadership Certificate program at Augusta University was featured in The Augusta Chronicle. As stated in the article, the 13-credit-hour program aims to help future business and government leaders more effectively communicate and...
Dr. Angela Bratton, associate professor of anthropology, and Dr. Augustine Hammond, associate professor of political science and public administration, explain why Zimbabweans are leaving their home country, how this emigration impacts Zimbabwe and...
The Jagwire Team sat down recently to talk with Dr. William Hatcher, director of the newly re-accredited Master of Public Administration Program at Augusta University, about how diversity makes our university – and our country – a...
Augusta University’s Master of Public Administration program was recently reaccredited by the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration – a hallmark of excellence in public service education that is earned by only 63 percent...
Gregg Murray, associate professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at Augusta University, is author of Caveman Politics, a blog on evolutionary psychology and politics for Psychology Today. A recent post, “Beyond Knee-Jerk...
Professor William Hatcher was featured in a recent WalletHub analysis of the best-run cities in America. For the analysis, WalletHub compared 150 of the U.S.’s top cities in areas like financial stability, education, health and safety, then...
Senior sociology major Kathryn DelGenio has been awarded The Welcoming Project’s 2016 Undergraduate Scholarship Award for her outstanding contributions to the field of LGBTQ activism. The award, a $500 scholarship awarded annually to one...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Students from local middle schools will engage in world politics as they attend the second annual middle school Model United Nations Conference on Wednesday, March 16, at Augusta University. “We want to expose young Americans to the...
The 34th SouthEastern Undergraduate Sociology Symposium will welcome five Augusta University student presenters on Feb. 19-20. Co-sponsored by the Emory University Department of Sociology and the Morehouse College Department of Sociology, the two...
The Department of Sociology, Criminal Justice, and Social Work will host a Bachelor of Social Work Information Session on Thursday, Feb. 11, from 2:30-3:30 p.m. in Allgood Hall, Room N240. Interested students will have a chance to learn about the...
Due to warming relations with the United States and an influx of tourists, Cuba is experiencing an unprecedented economic upswing. As the tourism industry booms in the sunny island nation, though, some black Cubans are being left out in the cold. So...
“Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done,” reads a passage in Bryan Stevenson’s book Just Mercy. Stevenson, a civil rights attorney, is responsible for exonerating more than 100 people from death row sentences. The biographical Just...
What: Guest speakers, including community members and Augusta University faculty, staff and students, will come together to speak about the sidewalk chalk events that occurred on the Summerville Campus in October 2015. After the rally, a collective...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Historically, houses of worship have served as places of sanctuary, centers of the community and symbols of peace. But many houses of worship have become targets for recent violence and must prepare for unique threats affecting their...
