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Call for Development Gateway @ UT Interns

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Call for Development Gateway @ UT Interns

Summer 2014

The University of Texas at Austin campus

Development Gateway, a Washington D.C. based non-profit organization working on international aid management, and Innovations for Peace and Development (IPD), a research consortium at UT, are seeking part- and full-time summer interns to provide data analysis support on an interdisciplinary project to better track development assistance in partnership with USAID.

Under the direction of Drs. Michael Findley (UT Government Department) and Kate Weaver (LBJ School of Public Affairs), student interns will geo-reference and categorize project-level data provided by aid donor governments. This summer, the project will primarily be focused on geocoding information for Honduras and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Training in GIS systems and coding methodologies will be provided.

Interns will also have the opportunity to learn tools for analyzing foreign aid data in conjunction with a variety of development outcomes including food security, health, climate change, democratization, and conflict. They will also undertake structured research projects under these topics.

Qualified candidates must be current undergraduate or graduate students and should demonstrate interest in geospatial systems, international development, economics, political science or related fields. French and Spanish speakers are highly encouraged to apply as well.

Internships will begin on May 26th, with an orientation week. We ask for a minimum commitment of 8 weeks, with an official ending date of August 15th. These positions are not paid, but successful interns will have the possibility of a continued position with the Innovation for Peace and Development research team in the fall semester. Interns are expected to commit between 20 and 40 hours per week in the summer.

Interested candidates are invited to attend an information session on Friday, April 11th in Student Activities Center, SAC 4.112 (the IPD Lab), from 12:15-1:15 pm. Please contact Ms. Nisha Krishnan (nisha.krishnan1@gmail.com), Dr. Kate Weaver (ceweaver@austin.utexas.edu) or Dr. Michael Findley (mikefindley@austin.utexas.edu) if you have any questions but are unable to attend the meeting.

Please submit the following Application Materials via email to Nisha Krishna (Nisha.krishnan1@gmail.com) by April 18 at 5:00 pm:

1. Cover letter with statement of interest, addressed to Ms. Nisha Krishnan, Innovations for Peace and Development

2. Resume with full contact information

3. Unofficial UT transcript

 

FULBRIGHT GRANT INFO SESSIONS

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FRIDAY, APRIL 25

&

MONDAY, MAY 5

1-2:30PM, BUR 126

Fulbright awards graduating seniors, recent graduates and alumni to travel for academic work in all disciplines, including the sciences, social sciences, humanities, engineering, and the performing and creative arts.  A number of countries also offer grants for those who wish to serve as English teaching assistants.

If you aren’t quite ready, the competition happens every year, and we’d like to put the Fulbright Program in exceptional students’ minds as a goal to strive for after graduation!  Fulbright@austin.utexas.edu 

The Fine Print:

The 2015-2016 Fulbright U.S. Student competition will open on May 1, 2014.  The Fulbright U.S. Student program is open to graduate students at all levels, undergraduates who will have completed their degree by the beginning of the grant period (for most countries, Sept. 1, 2014) and non-students who hold a bachelor’s degree.  The program is restricted to U.S. citizens.  The grants are for study and research abroad, and are available for most countries.  Grants are awarded for all disciplines, including the sciences, social sciences, humanities, engineering, and the performing and creative arts.  A number of countries also offer grants for those who wish to serve as English teaching assistants.

An information session for prospective applicants will be presented by an Alumni Ambassador from the Institute of International Education on Friday, April 25 from 1:00-2:30 PM in Burdine 136.

Deadlines and Procedures:

1.  Potential applicants must register with us, by sending an email to:

Fulbright@austin.utexas.edu.  The email should give the applicant’s name, contact information, academic status (i.e., undergrad, grad, alumnus), country or region of interest, and area of study or research topic.

2.  The applicant should go to the Fulbright U.S. Student Program website

(http://us.fulbrightonline.org/home.html) for country summaries, information about preparing an application, and, starting May 1, to begin the online application process.

3.  The applicant should also review our campus website:

http://world.utexas.edu/abroad/funding/scholarships/fulbright

4.  Campus Deadline: The applicant must submit copies of all application materials electronically to our office by 2 PM on September 3. Interviews are tentatively scheduled between September 15 and September 26.  While the deadline for final submission to the national office has not yet been announced, my expectation is that it will be around mid-October 15, 2014.

Again, I encourage eligible and interested students (and alumni) to consider applying.  For the most recent statistical year (2013-14), UT applicants received the 7th highest number of awards of all institutions in the nation and can boast the 3rd  highest award percentage per applicant pool for the top ten institutions at just over 31%. As a Fulbrighter myself (Brazil, 1990), I can testify to the lifelong value of this extraordinary program, and I am hoping that we can make that experience available to your students as well.

Best,

Lindsay Hale, Ph.D.

University Extension | Continuing Education

Chair, Fulbright U.S. Student Program Campus Committee

Congratulations to Wise Wanderer Michael Adams

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Congratulations to Michael Adams, who was awarded the Wise Wanderer Scholarship for his proposal “Around the World in 45 Days: from Beijing to London.”

Thank you to everyone who applied. We received many appealing and imaginative proposals for this scholarship and the decision was difficult.  Due to the high number of applicants, we will not send out individual messages with the scholarship results.