Category: Students/Alumni

Does calling your political opponent names work?  Prof. Aaron Dusso and former student Sydnee Perkins designed a research project in order to provide that answer. Their article titled, “Crooked Hillary and Sleepy Joe: Name-Calling’s Backfire Effect on Candidate Evaluations,” was recently published in the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. Since graduating in 2020, …

Students on the IUPUI Mock Trial Team spent the weekend arguing the civil case of Ari Felder v. Koller Campbell Air LLC in the new Marion County Justice Center in Indianapolis. The IUPUI Mock Trial Team hosted the annual Mock 100 Invitational on November 12th and 13th.  Twenty-five teams from all over the country traveled …

Congratulations to Sydney Kadinger (Class of 2019) for graduating from McKinney School of Law, passing the bar exam and landing her first position as a Prosecutor in Marion County! All tremendous accomplishments! Sydney is also now an Associate Faculty Member in the department serving as the Head Coach of our Mock Trial team!

  According to research by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce, on average, an individual who graduates with a Bachelor’s degree from IUPUI will make $913,000 more over the course of their 40-year career than someone who never gets a bachelor’s degree at all. Moral of the story? Finish your degree!

  Congratulations to all our scholarship and award winners!   Academic Achievement Award for Political Science Gabriela Alvarez Emma Lango James E. Sawyers Memorial Scholarship Isabella Avila-Hernandez P.E. MacAllister Political Science Scholarship Kailey Grogan Hannah Havard Robert V. Kirch Scholarship Kylie Reynolds Alexander Haynes

Kizito D. Kalima, the Founder and Executive Director of the Peace Center for Forgiveness and Reconciliation and a Rwandan Genocide survivor spoke to Professor Scott Pegg’s POLS Y338 African Politics on Tuesday, March 8, 2022. Before Kizito’s visit, POLS Y338 students had spent two class sessions watching the acclaimed PBS Frontline documentary “Ghosts of Rwanda” …

by Hanna Temperly Where are you completing your internship? Brattain Minnix Tolliver What connections can you make between this internship and the work you have done in your classes? In contract law we have an assignment where we evaluate a contract of our choosing and explain the basic elements that are within it. I chose …

Samuel Kingue – IUPUI Political Science Major, Communications Studies Minor I am currently doing my internship at the Indiana State Capitol. I am a Senate Republican legislative Intern and I specifically intern for Senator Bray who happens to be the President Pro Tempore of the Senate. Some of the connections you could make between the …

Meet IUPUI student Sara Berge.  Sara is a BA/JD student in the School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI who was just accepted to the IU McKinney School of Law!  As part of the BA/JD program, Sara was able to finish her undergraduate studies in Law in Liberal Arts in three years. She will transition to …