Natawnee Fritz and Borghesanis after 2004 Borghesani Colloquium

IR Program Scholarships

Anne E. Borghesani Memorial Prize
This prize is awarded to second-semester sophomores and juniors who undertake a research project, an internship, a volunteer activity, or plan of study in any field involving international issues. Designed to foster the spirit of the award, the prize encourages personal growth and independence, while increasing ones understanding of all peoples and encouraging a commitment to the world community. Second-semester sophomores and juniors from ANY department or major with a minimal GPA of 2.8 or above are eligible for the prize. Preference is given to U.S. citizens, but students of any nationality are urged to apply. Past projects include an internship in Russia working on TB, a research trip on Islamic Feminism to Barcelona, a volunteer activity with Habitat for Humanity in Kyrgyzstan, and a summer session at a language school in Morocco. Learn more.

IR Research Scholars Program
This scholarship pairs rising seniors with faculty mentors who guide a summer research project in preparation for an Honors Thesis, senior seminar paper, Fulbright proposal or other significant research paper in the senior year. The scholarship will support a minimum of eight weeks of IR Core Faculty-mentored summer research for the gathering of materials and data. Awards will be granted to both students and faculty mentors. Past research projects include public opinion on military intervention before/ after Iraq, microfinance in Tulear, Madagascar, and intellectual property rights of essential medicines in Third World Countries. Learn more.

Tufts University Scholarships

Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Education
This office is a great resource for Tufts students to gain insight into research and scholarship opportunities both on and off the Tufts campus. Learn more.

Summer Scholars
The Tufts Summer Scholars Program offers research apprenticeships with faculty/clinical mentors to motivated Tufts undergraduates. The program will provide for 30 Tufts undergraduates to do summer research. Each student will receive $3,500 for full-time research leading to a senior honors thesis or some form of culminating project. In addition, a $1,000 grant to defray research expenses will be made available to each recipient up until the time of graduation. Faculty/clinical mentors will receive a $1,000 research stipend. Learn more.

Tufts Career Services Summer Internship Grants
Through generous donations from alumni and the Tufts Diversity Fund, Career Services is able to provide funding for up to 35 internships for summer 2007. These funds offer students in AS&E the opportunity to explore career fields and gain experience through full-time, unpaid internships. Students must work a minimum of 350 hours (i.e. 35 hours/week for 10 weeks). Learn more.

Additional Funding Opportunities

• Fulbright Fellowship
  The Fulbright program is the largest U.S. international exchange program offering opportunities for students, scholars, and professionals to undertake international graduate study, advanced research, university teaching, and teaching in elementary and secondary schools worldwide. It was established in 1946 by the U.S. and awarded approximately six thousand grants in 2006 to U.S. students, teachers, professionals, and scholars to study, teach, lecture, and conduct research in more than 150 countries, and to their foreign counterparts to engage in similar activities in the United States.
   
• Institute for International Public Policy (IIPP) Fellowship Program
  The IIPP mission is to enhance U.S. national security and global competitiveness by promoting excellence, international service and cultural competence among a broader, more diverse cross section of the American citizenry. Through a comprehensive program of summer policy institutes, study abroad, intensive language training, internships, graduate study, mentoring and career development, the IIPP Fellowship Program provides underrepresented minority students with the education and training needed to successfully enter, advance and lead in international affairs careers. The goal of IIPP is to increase the participation and influence of underrepresented minority groups in international affairs. Students are recruited to participate in a multi-year sequence of summer policy institutes, study abroad, intensive language training, internships and graduate study. Twenty (20) sophomores are selected each year to continue through all IIPP program components.
   
• Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship
  The Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship is funded by the U.S. Department of State and administered by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The fellowship award includes tuition, room, board, and mandatory fees during the junior and senior years of college and during the first year of graduate study, with reimbursement for books and for travel (one round trip per academic year, up to a set maximum amount). Fellows must commit to pursuing a graduate degree in international studies at one of the graduate schools participating in the program. Participating graduate schools provide financial support in the second year of graduate study based on need. Fellows meet annually in Washington, D.C., for a program orientation. Successful candidates are ultimately appointed as a Foreign Service Officer and fulfill a service obligation of four and one-half years.
   
• Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) Fellowship Program
  The PPIA Fellowship Program is designed to prepare college juniors or rising seniors from diverse backgrounds for graduate studies in public and/or international affairs and groom them for professional roles in public service. Opportunities available under the Fellowship span a period of development from the junior year of college to beyond the completion of a graduate degree. The centerpiece of the program are the Junior Summer Institutes held at UC Berkeley, Michigan, Carnegie Mellon, Maryland, and Princeton. Institutes are comprised of a seven week curriculum that includes training in economics, statistics, domestic/international policy issues and leadership topics vital for admission into the top graduate programs in public and international affairs. Typically within two years of college graduation, fellows are recruited by, and receive funding from, PPIA consortium schools for Masters programs in international and public affairs. Fellows also benefit from internship programs and alumni services.
   
• Rangel International Affairs Program
  The Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Program, a collaborative effort between Howard University and the U.S. Department of State, seeks to attract outstanding young people who have an interest in pursuing a career in the Foreign Service of the U. S. Department of State. The Program encourages the involvement of members of minority groups and those with financial need. The Program includes two major elements: a two-year International Affairs Graduate Fellowship for students preparing to enter graduate programs in international affairs and committed to a career in the U.S. Foreign Service and a six-week Summer Enrichment Program open to undergraduates interested in an international affairs career. 
   
• National Security Education Program
  Sponsored by the Institute of International Education, this program provides grants to students at all levels who wish to focus on the study of language and culture in areas of the world outside of Western Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. NSEP is interested in supporting students in education, the sciences, business, health, and technical fields. NSEP grants are made to matriculated students who are U.S. citizens, and, who are applying for study abroad through a university or university-approved study program.
   
• Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarships
  Provides year-long funding for graduating students to study abroad to promote the Rotary mission of international understanding and world peace.
   
• The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University
  The site contains a wealth of resources on international studies, including a searchable funding opportunities database (currently it has predominantly an East Asia focus.)

For more information on the Pickering and Rangel opportunities, please contact Deborah Graze, the State Department's Diplomat in Residence at Tufts, via deborah.graze@tufts.edu; for information on IIPP and PPIA, you may consult with Laurie Hurley, Director of Admissions at the Fletcher School, via laurie.hurley@tufts.edu.