The University of Illinois's Craig Champberlain interviews political science professor Milan Svolik on Syria and the fate of authoritarian regimes in the Middle east on the University of Illinois's News Bureau's website.

Reflections on the European Union's efforts to deal with its debt crisis with political science department head William Bernhard on the University of Illinois's News Bureau's website.

The Political Economy section of the American Political Science Association has announced that the winner of the 2011 Mancur Olson Award for the best dissertation completed and accepted in the previous two years is Illinois political science professor Tiberiu Dragu, for his dissertation "Essays on Executive Power" completed at Stanford University in 2009.

The Institute of International Education has announced the winners of the coming year's Gilman Scholarships. Among them are two UIUC political science undergraduates: Karolina Wasiniewska, a senior, who will spend the fall of 2011 at the Instituto San Joaquin de Flores in Costa Rica, and Marcin Michniowski, a sophomore also majoring in East Asian languages and cultures, who will spend the 2011–2012 school year in Japan. 

The Graduate College at the University of Illinois has awarded political science PhD student Jamie Scalera a Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2011-2012.

The American Political Science Association's Legislative Studies Section has announced that Professor Kris Miler's Constituency Representation in Congress: The View from Capitol Hill (Cambridge University Press, 2010) is the 2011 winner of its Alan Rosenthal Prize. 

Cambridge University Press has published Professor Tracy Sulkin's The Legislative Legacy of Congressional Campaigns, an investigation of election promise-keeping, political campaigns, and representative government in the US.

The National Science Foundation has included political science PhD students Katie Graham and Molly Ritchie among its list of honorable mentions for the very competitive NSF 2011 Graduate Research Fellowship Program. 

The Dirksen Congressional Center has announced that it has awarded political science PhD student Chera LaForge a Congressional Research Award to support her dissertation research into progressive research in Congress. 

The Graduate College at the University of Illinois has announced that political science PhD student Gina Reynolds will receive a Nelle M. Signor Graduate Scholarship in International Relations to support field research for her dissertation.