Jennifer Jones, political science graduate student, has been named the 2013 recipient of the Outstanding Service award in social sciences. The honor highlights her school and campus contributions.

Jones is the vice president of external affairs for the Associated Graduate Students of UCI and she chairs the external affairs committee. She sits on the board of directors of the system-wide University of California Student Association and is a member of several of its committees. On a national level, Jones represents UCI grad students through the National Association of Graduate and Professional Students and the Student Advocates for Graduate Education. This year, she helped design and implement the UC Student Association’s Higher Education Report Card which grades state lawmakers on their voting records as they impact college students. She interned for the journal Political Psychology and for the past year, she served on the search committee to select a new dean for the School of Social Sciences. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland-College Park and she published her first study in her first year as a graduate student at UCI.