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Volume 2, Issue 1 September 2009 Newsletter In this Issue: » Applications Available » 2009 Awardees and Application Statistics » Scholarship Convocation » Fellowship Profile: "Development in Xinjiang" » Scholarship Profile: "Meeting the President of Brazil while in Turkey"	Sep 2009

Applications Available

The applications for Boren Scholarships for undergraduate students and Boren Fellowships for graduate students are currently available online. Please visit the Boren Awards website to begin your application.

2009 Awardees and Application Statistics

Lists of the 2009 Fellowship and Scholarship winners are available online. Statistical breakdowns of last year's application cycles are also available.

Scholarship Convocation

Earlier this summer, the 2009 Boren Scholarship award winners gathered together for an awards convocation and orientation at the Liaison Hotel in Washington, DC.

Fellowship Profile: "Development in Xinjiang"

Ever since Daniel Stolkowski began seriously studying China and Chinese language in 2000, he has wanted to live in the far western region of the country and learn more about the Uighur ethnic minority. Last year, Daniel earned a Boren Fellowship to do just that: study at Xinjiang Normal University in Urumqi, Xinjiang. While most students go to China to study Mandarin, by the time he won the Fellowship, Daniel had reached a high enough language proficiency to study Uighur in a Mandarin-based classroom setting.

Scholarship Profile: "Meeting the President of Brazil while in Turkey"

During his stay in Turkey, 2008 Boren Scholar Daniel McIntosh never expected his interests in Brazil, Turkey, and aerospace to coincide, deeming them all too distant from one another to have anything in common. However, while in Istanbul, Daniel, an aerospace engineering student from Pennsylvania State University, saw it all come together.