Tagged: Department of Political Science

NIU’s 2020 Lincoln Laureate: ‘Funny, kind, brilliant’

Cary native shines in both chemistry lab and dance studio

  • November 23, 2020
DeKalb, Ill. — Jill Belluomini can gracefully conquer both a molecular dynamics simulation and a pirouette. Her major and minor at NIU—chemistry and dance—represent her two passions. As different as…

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The Eiffel Tower

Speak Your Mind

Lessons for America? Why Muslim-European youth are recruited into radical Islamism

  • November 23, 2015
by Kikue Hamayotsu The Paris attacks of Nov. 13 came as a shock to French citizens as well as many of us around the world. The terrorist attacks by European…

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Road signs at intersection of Religion and Politics

Using My Religion

Politically unified state governments stir constitutional waters, trouble

  • April 22, 2015
With a swipe of his pen in late March, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence ignited a national firestorm by signing into law the state’s new Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Lawmakers believed…

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Five years later: Citizens United v. FEC

  • January 21, 2015
On Jan. 21, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that political spending is a form of protected speech. Five years later, NIU political science professor Scot Schraufnagel examines the playing…

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