Adam Luedtke, Assistant Professor, leads the second University of Utah Model European Union team to the West Coast Model European Union Competition in February 2008. The Model EU is a simulation of a European Council summit. Teams made up of two undergraduate students play the roles of representatives of EU member state delegations. This year's University of Utah team will represent Greece, in the two concurrent summit negotiation sessions that focus on the issues of the Constitutional Treaty and climate change.

Yanqi Tong, Associate Professor, is assisting in the new Public Administration coursework and student development for a group of public officials from the Hianan Province of China. This cooperative learning experience is designed to foster international education and communication among public administrators.

Douglas Goodman (PhD '02) receives promotion to Associate Professor at Mississipi State University. Dr. Goodman is also the Graduate Coordinator in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration.

Ingrid Price, Senior in the Political Science Department has been named a 2008 Truman Scholar. Madeleine K. Albright, president of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, announced that 65 students from 55 US colleges and universities have been selected as 2008 Truman Scholars. They were elected by seventeen independent selection panels on the basis of leadership potential, intellectual ability, and likelihood of 'making a difference.'

Gunduz Suphi Aktan, Turkish Parliment member of the of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and former Turkish Ambassador, spoke at the Hinckley Institute of Politics as a guest of Hakan Yavuz, Associate Professor. The one-time Turkish Foreign Ministry official, has been a recent panel member at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on Turkey's strategic future and has testified in hearings for the Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.Res.398) in the United States Congress.