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NSEP scholarship/fellowship info session planned for Sept. 3 |
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NSEP scholarship/fellowship info session
planned for Sept. 3 A representative from the Institute of International Education will host an informational session about the National Security Education Program David L. Boren Scholarships and Fellowships from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. September 3 in the Bernhard Center Room 211.
Chris Powers, an IIE representative, will explain NSEP’s unique funding opportunities for students from the United States to study world regions critical to U.S. interests, including Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America & the Caribbean, and the Middle East (Western Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are excluded).
The presentation is open to students, faculty, and advisors interested in learning how undergraduate and graduate students can apply for scholarships and fellowships for study related to careers in national security.
Two Western Michigan University students were recently awarded the highly competitive Boren awards from the NSEP to conduct research in Kenya and China during the 2008/2009 academic year.
Courtney Marie Buck, a political science graduate student working on a master’s degree in international development administration, received a Boren fellowship worth more than $19,000 to conduct biofuel research in Kenya. Buck was one of 92 recipients selected from a pool of 388 applications.
Jamie LeBlanc-Hadley, a senior majoring in global and international studies with a minor in Chinese, received a Boren Scholarship worth $11,300 to attend Beijing Language and Culture University. She will be working on her senior thesis project for WMU’s Lee Honors College, which focuses on Chinese economic policy, primarily in Tibet. LeBlanc-Hadley was one of 150 scholarship recipients from a pool of 697 applications.
“The Boren scholarships and fellowships through the National Security Exchange Program are very competitive national awards similar to the Fulbright awards,” said Brett Berquist, executive director of international programs at WMU’s Haenicke Institute for Global Education and NSEP campus representative. “Jaime and Courtney worked closely with their faculty mentors and me to prepare a strong application. We are pleased that two of three applications from WMU were funded this year, and we hope to see more applications next year.”
Additional information on preferred geographic regions, languages and fields of study and application procedures can be found at www.iie.org/nsep.
For more information, contact Brett Berquist at (269) 387-5890, or by e-mail at: brett.berquist@wmich.edu. |
