06/30/2010 12:00:00 AMUNT’s assistant professors Cullen Hendrix and Idean Salehyan are researching the links between climate change and political instability in Africa. story UNT’s Cullen Hendrix and Idean Salehyan, assistant professors of political science, are researching the links between climate change and political instability in Africa and will provide guidance to U.S. government policymakers. They received a $500,000 grant that is part of a $7.6 million Department of Defense grant awarded to the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin and were recruited for the center’s program on Climate Change and African Political Stability.