MATTHEW LESENYIE
Awards
Student Summer Research Award
$10,000 California State University, Long Beach Office of Summer Research Projects, March 24, 2021
Marvin Zetterbaum Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Instruction
$500 Department of Political Science, University of California, Davis, May 2nd, 2016.
Dean's Prize for Best Oral Presentation in Social Sciences
$1,000 for Reading the Fine Print? An Experimental Test of Campaign Finance Reform, UC Davis Interdisciplinary Graduate and Professional Symposium, April 8th, 2016
Vice Chancellor's Prize for Best Poster, Honorable Mention
$100 for Competing Claims: An Experimental Test of Campaign Finance Reform in Competitive Contexts, UC Davis Interdisciplinary Graduate and Professional Symposium, April 8th, 2016
Emerging Scholars Award for Excellence in Research and Public Policy, Honorable Mention
University of California Center Sacramento, March 23, 2016
Dean’s Prize for Best Oral Presentation in Social Sciences
$1,000 for Torts of Appeal: Do Elected Judges Rule Differently than Appointed Judges? UC Davis Interdisciplinary Graduate and Professional Symposium, April 5, 2013
Honorable Mention
The National Academies Ford Foundation Fellowship April 3rd, 2012
Best Presentation
$650 for Lobbyists and their Clients, Graduate Student Association Research Competition for April 12, 2011
2014-15 Project Manager and Research Assistant
The Social-Computational Systems Research Project (Primary Investigator: Amber Boydstun)
An NSF funded project tracking issue frames in news media across time.
2013-15 Research Assistant
Congressional Careers Sequencing Project and Estimating Ideal Points for San Francisco Board of Supervisors
(Primary Investigator: Scott MacKenzie)
Department Travel Grant University of California, Davis. $500 for travel assistance to the annual meetings of the Western Political Science Association, San Diego, CA. March 24-26, 2016.
Department Travel Grant University of California, Davis.
$500 for travel assistance to the annual meetings of the Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, NV. April 2-4, 2015
Department Travel Grant University of California, Davis.
$500 for travel assistance to the annual meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. April 3-6, 2014