International Affairs and Public Policy Opportunities Event

Time: Friday, Sep 27, 2013 at 4:00pm
Location: The Maryland Room, Marie Mount Hall (lower level)

The National Scholarships Office will present talks by Patricia Scroggs, Director of the Rangel International Affairs Program, and Erin Mann, director of the Public Policy and International Affairs Program. These talks will focus on several outstanding scholarship opportunities for sophomores, juniors, and seniors with strong interests in pursuing an international-affairs related career and graduate education. These programs focus on outreach to students from groups who are underrepresented in international affairs leadership positions in government, nonprofits, international organizations and other institutional settings, and give consideration to financial need:

Rangel International Affairs Summer Enrichment Program - http://www.rangelprogram.org/index.cfm?session.areaid=2&contentid=684&typeid=CBRIAPSEP

Public Policy and International Affairs Junior Fellows Program - http://www.ppiaprogram.org/ppia/what-we-do/junior-summer-institutes/

Rangel Graduate Fellows Program – http://www.rangelprogram.org/index.cfm?session.areaid=2&contentid=672&typeid=CBRIAP92223

Payne International Development Fellowship Program - http://www.paynefellows.org/?session.areaid=2&contentid=941

Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship Program – http://woodrow.org/fellowships/pickering/

Mohammad Zia, a UMD senior who has participated in Federal Semester and the Rangel Summer Enrichment Program and the PPIA Junior Fellows Program will also speak to students.

Refreshments will be served.