Check out what the Political Science faculty was up to during the month of January:

• Professor Joseph White weighed in on how the administration of President Donald Trump could have a local impact.
• Professor Karen Beckwith participated in a panel discussion, “Gender, Race and Partisan Politics in the 45th Presidential Administration,” at the University of Minnesota.
• Listen to Professor Kathryn Lavelle on The Sound of Ideas as she weighed in on the importance of inaugural speeches and what we can expect from Trump’s address (29:30).
• Professor Karen Beckwith discussed what Senator Sherrod Brown can expect from the electorate during his upcoming campaign for re-election in 2018.
• Professor Justin Buchler wrote an article about the challenge of maintaining a nonpartisan journalism model if both political parties don’t abide by the same norms in The Conversation.