Kirk Bansak’s Challenge Lab course on building bridges between democracy and technology had t his nice write-up. A Political Science student in the class (Kiara Shriqui) won the MVP in the class and then scored the People’s Choice Award in a broader competition with other Challenge Lab Classes.
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Alison Post et al., “ How Do Cyber-Risks Vary across Smart City Technologies?” Journal of Urban Technology, online.
Johnathan Guy accepted an Assistant Professor position at Georgia Tech, starting Fall 2026.
Steve Fish was featured in this LawBusiness Insider podcast.
Wendy Wang's new class on globalization is featured in this roundup on new classes at Berkeley.
Julia Raven was selected for the 2025-2026 APSA Congressional Fellowship Program. You can read more here.
Nad Permaul, who received the Berkeley Citation at the PoliSci Commencement, is featured in this Cal Alumni Association article. (Nad, as you may know and this is not news to celebrate, passed away this July and will be honored at the Campus Memorial on September 15).
Isabella Montini won an APSA-NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant.
Sarah Daniel won a Reinhard Bendix/Allan Sharlin Fellowship to support her dissertation research.
Matt Brundage won the Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper presented at the previous year’s APSA conference. Matt also was selected as a Civil Justice and Innovation Fellow at Stanford Law School’s Rhode Center and as a Berkeley Empirical Legal Studies (BELS) Graduate Fellow.