David L. Boren Awards for International Study

Imagine a storeroom full of hundreds of hours of audio recordings and documents in Farsi, Pashto, Urdu, or Korean. The materials might hold the clues to prevent a future terrorist attack or help American intelligence officials finally locate Osama bin Laden, only a handful have been translated because a lack of trained linguists. We have those storerooms now. We lack these translators now. Such troves of untranslated materials exis...
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The National Security Education Program (NSEP) is pleased to announce the 2008 winner of the Sol Linowitz Award is Benjamin Orbach and the winner of the Howard Baker Jr. Award is Matthew Parin.  To see the offical Press Release click here .
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS BOREN SCHOLAR: Lee “Mickey” Clemon, a junior from Olathe South High School, has been selected as a 2008 David L. Boren Undergraduate Scholar by the National Security Education Program. Clemon, who is majoring in mechanical engineering, is among 150 students nationwide selected from a pool of 697 applicants for the Boren scholarships. The awards provide funding for study abroad to scholars planning career...
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Christopher Powers, Director Education Abroad Programs, NSEP Boren Fellowship and Scholarship Program, will present to interested Western Michigan University students, staff, and faculty at 10 am in room 211 of the Bernhard Center on September 3, 2008.  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 abroad...
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Georgetown University student Catherine Brennan, an international history major from Raleigh, was awarded a David L. Boren Undergraduate Scholarship by the National Security Education Program to study at the McGhee Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies in Alanya, Turkey, this fall. The scholarships are awarded to American students to study world regions critical to U.S. interests. They are intended to provide support to U.S. gradu...
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