New section of P&G 250 opened!

To all majors:

We have opened a second section of P&G 250 for Spring 2010. Professor O'Neil will teach the course on MWF at noon. Professor Haltom's section of 250, also offered at noon, is still on the books. All students who were on the waiting list for Haltom's class have been enrolled in O'Neil's section of the course.

Gilman Scholarships for overseas study

http://www.iie.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Programs7/Gilman_Awards/Home8/Home.htm

Program Overview

The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program offers grants for U.S. citizen undergraduate students of limited financial means to pursue academic studies abroad. Such international study is intended to better prepare U.S. students to assume significant roles in an increasingly global economy and interdependent world.

International experience is critically important in the educational and career development of American students, but it can also require a substantial financial investment. The Gilman Scholarship Program broadens the student population that studies abroad by supporting undergraduates who might not otherwise participate due to financial constraints. The program aims to encourage students to choose non-traditional study abroad destinations, especially those outside of Western Europe and Australia. The Gilman Scholarship Program aims to support students who have been traditionally under-represented in study abroad, including but not limited to, students with high financial need, community college students, students in under-represented fields such as the sciences and engineering, students with diverse ethnic backgrounds, and students with disabilities. The program seeks to assist students from a diverse range of public and private institutions from all 50 states, Washington, DC and Puerto Rico.

Award recipients are chosen by a competitive selection process and must use the award to defray eligible study abroad costs. These costs include program tuition, room and board, books, local transportation, insurance and international airfare.

This congressionally funded program is sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State and is administered by the Institute of International Education through its Southern Regional Center in Houston, TX.

Course addition for Spring 2010: PG 336 Terrorism

Professor Weinberger will be offering PG 336 Terrorism, TTh at 1230-1350; expect to see it in Cascade today.

$10k Fellowships to study in Canada

http://www.killamfellowships.com/

The Killam Fellowships Program provides an opportunity for exceptional undergraduate students from universities in Canada and the United States to spend either one semester or a full academic year as an exchange student in the other country. Students may participate in the program either as a direct exchange student (registering at their home university, paying their home fees, and attend the host university as an exchange visitor) or as a self-placed visiting student (registering at the host university and paying host tuition fees).

The Killam Fellowships Program provides a cash award of $10,000 US ($5,000 US per semester). Further, the Foundation provides all Killam Fellows with an allowance of $500 US to offset health insurance costs. In addition, all Fellows are eligible to apply for a mobility grant in an amount not to exceed $800. The idea of the mobility initiative is to allow students to undertake an educational field trip, providing the Fellows with the opportunity to gain a fuller understanding of the culture of the host country. In exceptional cases, and on a strictly competitive basis, the Foundation may be prepared to offer a modest high-cost allowance. This allowance is available only to those students participating in the direct exchange program.

Approximately forty scholarships will be available for 2010-11. For more information, please select a link from the left panel.

Last minute schedule change in P&G: Terrorism Course

Professor Kessel's Ancient Political Thought class is canceled. In its place, Professor Weinberger will be offering a course on Terrorism, TTh at 1230-1350.

PG 336
Terrorism

This course examines the phenomenon of terrorism on many different dimensions. First, it explores what is meant by the term "terrorism," and the question of "Is one man's terrorist another man's freedom fighter?" Next, the class considers why certain groups turn to terror. What do they hope to accomplish and how does terrorism help them achieve their goals? The course then turns to looking at various examples of terrorism and strategies to combat it. Is terrorism best fought like a military conflict or like an international crime? How can states hope to protect themselves? Ethical issues are also addressed, such as how the needs of national security are balanced against the requirements of civil liberties in a free, democratic society. Finally, the course considers the War on Terror itself, analyzing its strategies and tools and assessing its purpose and efficacy.

Prerequisite: PG 102 or 103.

11/19: Talk on Latin America and the left

Red, Pink or Tutti Frutti: Where is Latin America Heading Politically?
Reflections on the Shift to the Left

Barry Carr
Visiting professor of Latin American History
University of California, Berkeley
Emeritus professor, La Trobe University

Thursday, November 19 at 4:00 Wyatt 101

Sponsored by Latin American Studies, History, and Politics and Government
for more information, contact John Lear at 879-2792

Summer Intership: Defense Intelligence Agency

This would be an incredible learning experience. 11/15 deadline!

https://diajobs.dia.mil/

The DIA Summer Intern Program
DIA's Summer Intern Program provides promising undergraduate seniors and graduate students the opportunity to gain practical work experience during the summer. While specific intern opportunities vary from year to year based on the Agency’s needs, internships are usually available in the following functional areas: Foreign Area Studies, Computer Science, Legal, Information Assurance, Business Administration, Human Resources, International Relations, Public Administration, Political Science, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Microbiology, Pharmacology, Toxicology, Engineering, or Intelligence Analysis.

This program is open only to those enrolled as full-time degree seeking students at universities and colleges worldwide.

The Agency offers a limited number of paid summer internships. Interns will be appointed for a 10-week period from June through August, 2010 as full-time temporary employees.

To work as a DIA summer intern, you must be granted a security clearance and must successfully pass a Counterintelligence (CI) Scope polygraph examination and drug test, no later than 30 days prior to June 13, 2010. We will not make a final offer of employment to you until you have met all of these requirements.

Please note that the security clearance procesing, CI Scope Polygraph examination and drug test cannot be conducted if you are overseas. Therefore, do not apply to this program if you are studying or working abroad any time in the 6-9 months prior to the summer during which you wish to work as an intern.

As an intern, you will be paid according to the number of college credit hours you have completed. Since this is a temporary appointment, you will not receive employee benefits.

All selected students are responsible for securing their own travel and lodging accommodations.

Summer Language Workshop: Pashto? How about Uzbek?

From my alma mater. There is financial aid for some of these programs:

Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European
and Central Asian Languages
at Indiana University
June 18-August 13, 2010

SWSEEL ClassroomIntensive language training has been offered at the Bloomington campus of Indiana University since 1950. The Summer Workshop provides up to 200 participants in Slavic, East European and Central Asian languages the opportunity to complete a full year of college language instruction during an eight-week summer session.

Russian Language Programs

* Eight-week session, First to sixth year: June 18-August 13 details
* Four-week session, First to sixth year: June 18-July 16 details

East and Central European Languages (June 18-August 13) details

* First year Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian**
* First year Czech*
* First year Hungarian
* First year Macedonian**
* First year Polish*
* First year Romanian**
* Second year Ukrainian

** Tuition will be waived for graduate students specializing in any field of East European studies.
Languages of Central Asia and the Caucasus (June 18-August 13) details

* First and second year Azerbaijani
* First year Georgian
* First and second year Kazakh
* First year Mongolian*
* First year Pashto
* First through Third year Tajik
* First and second year Turkmen
* First through Third year Uyghur
* First and second year Uzbek

* Pending funding

Utilizing the resources of Indiana University's own specialists as well as native speakers from other universities and abroad, the Summer Workshop has developed and maintained a national program of the highest quality. Allowing all participants to pay in-state tuition fees, the program has as its goal the enhancement of speaking, reading, listening and writing skills through classroom instruction and a full range of extra-curricular activities. Fellowships and funding are available.

SWSEEL ClassroomKnowledge of Slavic, East European, and Central Asian languages prepares students for exciting career opportunities in areas such as government, higher education, not-for-profit institutions, public health, law, international development, the military, journalism, environmental issues, the arts and business.

For summer 2010, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) will fund the teaching of Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Macedonian, Polish and Romanian. Tuition for these courses will be waived for graduate students specializing in East European studies in any discipline.

Application Deadline: March 22, 2010; thereafter, rolling admissions. Deadline for consideration for Fellowships is also March 22, 2010.

APPLICATIONS FOR 2010 WILL BE OPEN SOON

International Youth Conference, Prague

Dear Professor O'Neil:

Greetings from Prague! The 19th International Youth Leadership Conference (January 4th-9th, 2010, Prague) is only 2 months away, and we would like to give you an update on how the conference is developing.

Over 50 participants have already secured their places at the conference. These students represent various universities from 15 different countries, namely Kazakhstan, United States, Singapore, United Kingdom, China, Australia, Netherlands, India, South Africa, Canada, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Viet Nam, Philippines. With new applications coming in each day and accepted participants confirming their spots, we are expecting even more countries to be represented at the conference.

If your students are interested in the opportunity, please encourage them to apply as soon as possible, as the deadlines are approaching and the spots are quickly filled.

Applications can be submitted online at www.czechleadership.com.

Conference Team

We are very keen to present the 19th IYLC Facilitators Team, who will be guiding the participants through the week and making sure they get the best out of this opportunity. The facilitators at this conference are Andreas from Norway, Cathy from Australia, Maryna from Belarus, Matt from the UK, Patrick from the US, Rowan from South Africa, Sangeetha from Singapore, Victoria from the UK. We will soon post their bios on the blog.

Conference Agenda

The up-to-date conference schedule can be found on our web-site at www.czechleadership.com/itinerary.php. To learn more about the subjects we will be discussing and people we will be meeting during the conference, please visit www.czechleadership.com/agenda.php.

Regular Updates

As we are trying to limit the number of mass e-mails we send out, we will be posting more news on our blog at http://czechleadership.com/blog. We will also be increasing our presence on social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. More information is on our web-site’s homepage.

Please do not hesitate to contact us at info@czechleadership.com.

With best regards,


Ismayil Khayredinov
ismayil@civicconcepts.org
Conference Director
19th International Youth Leadership Conference
www.czechleadership.com
tel: +420 272 730 897

Fulbrights get brighter

...or at least become a beacon for more applicants, including Puget Sound:

The tough job market for college seniors and recent graduates has left millions of twentysomethings unemployed or underemployed and looking for work or some other way to occupy their time.

Among the alternatives that appear to be growing in popularity this fall: State Department-sponsored Fulbright fellowships to study, conduct research or teach English in 140 countries.

In all, more than 8,500 people submitted applications to the Institute for International Education (IIE) – the group that oversees student Fulbrights -- for 2010-11 awards ahead of last week’s deadline, a thousand more than applied a year ago. About 1500 student Fulbrights are awarded each year...

Applications coming from the University of the Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., tripled from 6 last year to 18 this year. Bowdoin College students and alumni submitted 20 applications last year and 28 this year. Muhlenberg College's applications grew from 5 to 12. Franklin & Marshall College's grew from 5 to 11. Applications from Villanova University grew from 12 last year to 18 this year.

Jane Morris, director of the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships at Villanova and president of the National Association of Fellowships Advisors, said the economy is one reason why applications are up, but also pointed to efforts by the IIE to “get the word out to increase the numbers.” She pointed to more information sessions, better outreach to colleges and a more robust website describing the fellowship as important factors in drumming up applications...

Read the whole thing here.

ASK Night--PG Alums will be there!

To all Politics & Government Faculty: Help your students connect with Politics & Government alumni…please urge your students to attend ASK Night! You can forward the message below to your students.

“Building and maintaining professional networks is an essential skill required by employers.”

--Dr. Phil Gardner, the national expert on the college job market

Begin building your network by attending ASK Night 2009 and connecting with P&G alumni:

Melissa Hopkins ‘ 04, Development Specialist for the American Red Cross
Estevan Munoz-Howard ’04, Executive Director of the Youth Media Institute
Joshua McDonald ’02, Government Affairs Coordinator for the Washington Restaurant Association
William Stephens, ’84, Assistant Attorney General for the Attorney General of Washington State
Andrea Tull, ’02, Government Relations Director for MultiCare Health System
Robert Wotton, Jr. ’86, Branch Manager of Sterling Savings Bank


Please join these alumni, and others at:
Alumni Sharing Knowledge (ASK) Night 2009
Thursday, Nov. 5: drop by anytime between 7:00 and 8:30 p.m.
Wheelock Rotunda
Light snacks provided.

Intern for Congressman Dave Reichert

It is a pleasure to inform you that Congressman Dave Reichert's District office on Mercer Island is recruiting to fill three positions of Congressional Intern effective immediately. Go to http://reichert.house.gov/ConstituentServices/internships.htm to download an application form.

We would like to take this opportunity to nominate individuals who are well-suited for this position. We are genuinely interested in recruiting candidates who are interested in policy, and more importantly, who have a desire to serve the United States.


We would appreciate it if you would post, publish and circulate the position announcement. It may be duplicated and distributed as you wish in order to bring it to the attention of students who might be interested and qualified.

I thank you for publicizing this position announcement and informing any persons who might be interested in a new opportunity.


Sincerely,
Jasques Imperial
Staff Assistant for Congressman Dave Reichert (WA-08)

Wintergrass--volunteer?

They've left Tacoma (*sniff*, sad), but Professor Share says why not head up to Bellevue and pitch in?

Those who would like to volunteer can get a free weekend pass to Wintergrass, the nation’s top winter bluegrass festival, which will take place in Bellevue, WA, February 25-28.

Applications and details are available at
http://www.acousticsound.org/wg_volunteers.htm.

More information about the festival can found at www.acousticsound.org .

Washington Center Intern Abroad Program

Depending on the internship, it could be possible to get department credit for this--talk to Professor Sousa if you are considering the program and want to figure out how it can apply to the major.

We hope that you'll help us communicate to eligible students on your campus the many benefits of a Washington Center intern abroad program. Students who take part have the opportunity to combine the adventure of a study abroad experience with the practical advantage of interning in an international setting. They'll begin the semester or summer with a ten-day academic seminar in Washington, D.C. before heading to their destination city where they'll complete coursework and a substantive internship.

Our intern abroad program offerings for 2010 include:

Washington, D.C.-Sydney Internship Program (spring, summer)
Washington, D.C.-London Internship Program (summer, fall)
Washington, D.C.-Oxford Internship Program (summer only)

We're extending our deadline for the spring D.C.-Sydney Program until November 13 in order to give students additional time to apply.

If you'd like to find out more about these opportunities, please visit www.twc.edu/internabroad or feel free to contact us at internabroad@twc.edu or 202-238-7900 any time! We're also happy to provide you with materials you can distribute on campus to promote the programs.

Please let us know if you, your students or colleagues have questions at any time. Thank you for bringing The Washington Center's intern abroad offerings to the attention of students you believe would be strong candidates.

Heather Hendy
Senior Program Coordinator, Institutional Relations
The Washington Center

Email: internabroad@twc.edu
Phone: 202-238-7900 or 800-486-8921
Website: www.twc.edu/internabroad

Critical Language Scholarship--Summer 2010

The United States Department of State is pleased to announce the upcoming
scholarship competition for the 2010 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS)
Program for overseas intensive summer language institutes in thirteen
critical need foreign languages. The on-line application for CLS Program
awards will be available November 9, 2009, and the deadline to apply will be December 18, 2009.

Critical Language Scholarships (CLS) provide group-based intensive language
instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences for seven to ten
weeks. Students may apply for one language, and will be placed at institute
sites based on language evaluations after selection. The 2010 CLS Program
will include new programs in Indonesian and Japanese.

Levels available for each language are as follows:
*Arabic, Persian: Advanced beginning, intermediate or advanced level;
*Azerbaijani, Bangla/Bengali, Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Punjabi, Turkish, or Urdu: Beginning, intermediate or advanced level;
*Chinese, Japanese or Russian: Intermediate or advanced level.

Students of diverse disciplines and majors are encouraged to apply. While
there is no service requirement attached to CLS Program awards, participants are expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship period, and later apply their critical language skills in their future professional careers.

For more information on the CLS Program and the selection process, please
visit www.CLScholarship.org. If you would like to receive a program
announcement, please email me directly at sylla.julia@caorc.org.

Julia Phelan Sylla
Assistant Director
Critical Language Scholarship Program
Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC)
Phone: 202-633-7015
E-mail: sylla.julia@caorc.org
Website: www.CLScholarship.org

Hot Dog! Elly Henriksen in the China Daily--

Read the whole thing here--
http://www2.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2009-10/23/content_8836940.htm

US college life is in full swing and many young adventurous Americans are still telling tales about their overseas experiences. It's not unusual for foreign students to spend a summer in China interning at various companies but selling hot dogs in a Beijing hutong is way off the beaten track.

US college student Elly Henriksen ran the Bar Uno hot dog stand, located in Nanluoguxiang, for the greater part of the summer and is now back home in Washington state to tell the story.

"I got there on June 1, and was pretty much keeping the place running," said Henriksen.

A student at the University of Puget Sound in Washington state, Henriksen was offered the job by an American businessman and alumni of her school.

"My professor called me on my cellphone and told me I had a job prospect in China, and asked if I was interested," said Henriksen. With less than three weeks left before the semester was to end, she scrambled to get her visa and passport in place so she could come to China.

"I was basically told 'you're going to be running a hot dog stand, and you're going to work a lot'," said Henriksen. The stand, which is still running, is open seven days a week, for at least 12 hours each day. Henriksen was in charge of "establishing regular hours, regular prices, doing some of the hiring; we wanted to use an American business model," she said....

Paper Competition; one grand prize---

Wartburg College Announces

An International Competition

For Undergraduate Research Papers

This competition is supported by a generous grant from the Metanexus Institute

Students from around the world are invited to submit research papers that will focus on the relationships between technology, the natural world, and human identity or spirit.

Submissions are due no later than June 1, 2010. Send papers to lake.lambert@wartburg.edu. All papers must be written in English and will be evaluated by a blind review process. Cash prizes in the amounts of $1,000, $500 and $250 are available to the top three papers. Winning papers will be published at www.wartburg.edu/metanexus. For more information, call 319 352 8684 or email dean.johnson@wartburg.edu

Sample Ideas for Papers

The following paper ideas are illustrative of the projects sought by this national paper competition.

Flood Recovery and the Human Spirit: the activation of Social and Spiritual Resources subsequent to the 2008 flood in NE Iowa. This research project is designed to document and analyze the psycho-social and spiritual strategies and processes that enabled (or failed to enable) recovery after the devastating NE Iowa flood in 2008. Data will be collected primarily through interviews with victims of the flood, city officials and area ministers, as well as through visits to sites where recovery efforts are proceeding. Although economic factors will be evaluated as part of the study, the focus of the project will be the affective challenges that confront flood victims and the psychological and spiritual strategies they have used to meet those challenges.

The Effect of Social Networking Technologies on Volunteerism. This research project will document and analyze the effectiveness of social networking technology within the community of Waverly, Iowa, for promoting and organizing volunteerism in response to specific needs: the NE Iowa flood, the destruction caused by hurricane Katrina, and the Feed My Starving Children initiative. Robert Putnam’s analysis of different modes of civic engagement will provide a paradigm or analyzing the kinds of involvement elicited by social networking strategies.

Music and Mood: Seeing the World through an MP3-Player.This project will focus on the effect of music on mood and perception while moving through public spaces. The phenomenon of living inside a private world of sound while moving through public space has become common in contemporary society. This study will seek to understand how both mood and perception of immediate surroundings are affected by continuous music.


The Use of Machine Metaphors for Representing Humans and Society in Shakespeare, the Bronte sisters, Henry James and Kurt Vonnegut. This is an attempt to document through time how the use of machine metaphors to represent humans and society have changed. Electronic searches of those texts that are available in machine readable format, or for which there exist concordances, will be used to facilitate the discovery process.

Wednesday: The Art of Political Murder

PLEASE COME AND CIRCULATE:
Writer/novelist Francisco Goldman
THE ART OF POLITICAL MURDER
Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009
4 p.m.
Wyatt Hall, Room 109

A triumphant tale of justice belatedly served in a country where the concept had lost all meaning, of institutional evil unmasked in a place where it had long operated behind a thousand disguises, of plodding police work and personal courage overcoming a culture of impunity and fear.

Goldman will discuss the assassination of a Guatemalan bishop Msgr. Juan Gerardi, whose bludgeoned body was found just days after he and a team of human rights investigators announced the publication of a 1,400-page report blaming Guatemala’s security forces for a 30-year reign of murder, torture, massacres, and disappearances.

Francisco Goldman is a Guatemalan-American journalist, and award-winning novelist. He lives in Mexico City and Brooklyn, New York, and teaches at Trinity College in Connecticut.