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Fewer than 1 in 5 North Carolina residents expect the national economy to improve over the course of the next year.

With a state constitutional ban on same-sex marriage on the ballot in May, a majority of North Carolinians say they disapprove of the measure.

The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., interviewed former ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ Poll director Hunter Bacot in a May 1 profile on his work with the poll.

An Elon junior sought feedback from Career Services when applying for an internship that had him researching cybersecurity and cyberwarfare.

¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ senior Catherine Serex will be presenting her research, “Transcending the Security Dilemmas: A Comparative Multilevel Study of Trust in Peace Processes,” on April 26 at the Triangle Institute of Security Studies (TISS) Seventh Annual Undergraduates in Security Studies Honor Thesis Presentations.

¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ alumna Lindsey Guice Smith ’05 appeared this month on MSNBC’s “News Nation with Tamron Hall” to speak of the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission’s efforts in freeing two men from prison who were exonerated for murder.

Dion Farganis, an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, has just published two articles on Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

Several ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ events commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks that changed the nation forever.

The Professional Development Committee of the International Studies Association has awarded ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ a grant to support a professional development workshop for graduate students and junior faculty in international studies.

An ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ student with the goal of one day running for public office is taking part this summer in the Virginia Governor’s Fellows Program, a highly selective internship for rising college seniors, recent college graduates or graduate students from Virginia that places them in the governor’s office and other state agencies.