Karen L. Wooley, Ph.D.
Her nanoparticle research has many applications
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Calvert
named Eagleton University professor
By Gerry Everding
Calvert will be formally installed in a Feb. 18 ceremony. Calvert, a specialist in American politics and positive political theory, joined the faculty in Arts & Sciences as a professor of political science in October 1999. He also taught here as assistant professor from 1979-1985 and as associate professor from 1985-87. In 1984-85, he was a postdoctoral fellow in political economy at Carnegie-Mellon University, and he spent 1990-91 as a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. "A superb scholar with an international reputation, Randy Calvert is an exceptional teacher as well," Macias said. "He brings to Arts & Sciences a truly interdisciplinary approach to the study of politics, and through his work he will add great distinction to this important professorship." Before returning to Washington University, he was the Don Alonzo Watson Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester, serving as department chair there from 1991-96. Calvert earned a bachelor's degree in mathematical analysis in the social sciences from the University of Kentucky in 1975 and a doctorate in social science from the California Institute of Technology in 1980. Calvert is the author of the 1986 monograph Models of Imperfect Information in Politics. His articles on American legislative and electoral politics and on positive theory are published in a variety of leading journals, including The American Political Science Review and The American Journal of Political Science. Over the past decade, his research has concentrated on game-theoretic general models of leadership and social institutions. His current research and teaching focus is on processes of political communication and argument and on American constitutional politics. Calvert recently chaired the American Political Science Association's Organized Section on Political Economy, and he served on the section's council from 1994-96. He also served on the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Advisory Panel for Political Science and on NSF's Graduate Fellowship Program evaluation panel. He is co-editor of the interdisciplinary journal Economics & Politics and the Cambridge University Press series on "The Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions." He serves on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Political Science, Legislative Studies Quarterly and the Journal of Theoretical Politics. He has held similar board roles for the American Journal of Political Science and the Journal of Politics. The Thomas F. Eagleton University Professorship in Public Affairs & Political Science was established in 1985 to celebrate the long years of service that Eagleton provided to the people of Missouri upon his coming home to the area and to a faculty position at the University. The inaugural holder of the chair, Eagleton held the professorship until he was named professor emeritus in 2001. |
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