Christopher Wall, senior political science and economics major, was named a Minority Fellow by the American Political Science Association for 2011-12. Wall is a student in the Honors College, a Ronald E. McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program scholar and president of the UNT chapter of Mortar Board National Honor Society. After graduating in May, he plans to enter graduate school to become a university professor and continue research on weak states and democratization.

The Minority Fellowship Program was established to increase the number of political science scholars and professors who are ethnic minorities, are applying to doctoral degree programs and plan to teach and conduct research.