The Boren Awards application deadlines are less than a month away.  The application deadline for the Boren Fellowship is January 31, 2012.  The national application deadline for the Boren Scholarship is February 9, 2012. 

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The application deadline for the Boren Fellowship for graduate students is less than two weeks away.  As you put the finishing touches on your application, be sure to follow this advice.

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The national application deadline for the Boren Scholarship for undergraduate students is only a few weeks away.  As you put the finishing touches on your application, be sure to follow this advice. 

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Colin Holmes
2006 Boren Fellow
Hindi, India
Brandeis University
Field of Study: Sustainable International Development

In 2005, during a meeting with a small group of graduate students at Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management, I learned for the first time about the Boren Fellowship.  I thought it was an incredible opportunity.  I knew I wanted to do environment-related international development work in India, and after a few weeks of brainstorming, I crafted a research proposal that involved studying Hindi while looking at the long-term impact of watershed development projects in India.  My focus was on environmental/water security and I found an excellent non-governmental organization, the Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), to work with and support my research.  I already had a start on Hindi due to a previous experience living in India as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar. My Boren proposal aimed to build on that foundation to bring me up to working-level proficiency.

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Alyssa Haerle
2011 Boren Scholar
Russian, Russia
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Political Science/International Relations and Russian Studies  

As a student at Antelope Valley College, I represented Russia at a Model United Nations conference. Researching foreign policy and the development of post-Soviet countries made me want to study Russian language and culture in more depth.  So, after I transferred to UCLA, I enrolled in the Russian Language Flagship Program. A goal of The Language Flagship is to graduate students with superior language proficiency levels, which is exactly what I need in order to be competitive in my chosen career field of international relations.  I applied for the Boren Scholarship to fund the Language Flagship capstone year overseas.  Since I want to work on issues related to the economic relations between Russia and the United States, I see the Boren service requirement as a way to gain important experience.  Having practical experience to supplement theoretical knowledge is an irreplaceable advantage in a competitive job environment. 

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