Appointments

Mark Tessler, the Samuel J. Eldersveld Collegiate Professor of Political Science, has been named director of the Center for Political Studies in the Institute for Social Research.

He also has received a grant from the U.S. State Department for work on public opinion research in three Arab countries, entitled “Building Capacity for Public Opinion Research in Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, and Oman.”

Awards

John Swales, professor of linguistics and the English Language Institute, will receive an honorary Ph.D. from the University of Uppsala (Sweden) as part of that school’s January 2004 graduation ceremonies.