E. Ike Udogu, Professor of Political Science and Faculty Fellow, Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice, and President of the Association of Third World Studies, attended the 24^th annual international conference of the association at Winston Salem State University, Winston Salem, North Carolina on November 2-4, 2006.
 

He received two awards at this conference—one for his Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of Third World Studies, and the other for Outstanding Contributions to Scholarship on Human Rights, Management of Ethnic Diversity, Democracy and Democratization and Peaceful Coexistence in Africa.