The Boren Fellowship application requires that you complete a number of steps online and that you submit supplementary materials by mail.  In order to be eligible, you must complete all of the online and supplementary components by January 28, 2010. 

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There are a number of steps required for a complete Boren Scholarship application.   The supplementary materials should be given to your Boren campus representative, and the online application must be submitted by your on-campus deadline.  If you do not have a campus representative, the online application must be submitted and all original supplementary materials must arrive at the Institute of International Education by February 10, 2010.

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If you plan on applying for a Boren Scholarship or Fellowship or if you have already started your application, don’t miss the final webinars before the deadline.  We will be giving detailed explanations of the applications along with advice on how to make your application more competitive.    

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Alexander Furlong, a 2004 Boren Scholar, spent the Fall of 2004 in Beijing, China.  Alexander majored in Asia area studies with a minor in Chinese language at Ohio University where he was also a ROTC cadet.  During the semester that he was in China, Alexander improved his Mandarin skills from intermediate low to advanced low on the oral proficiency interviews.

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Lisa Holliday is interested in making buildings that can withstand catastrophes, those that are natural as well as man-made.  Living in Oklahoma City, she witnessed the damage that was done in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred T. Murrah Federal Building.  Designing structures that can resist blasts is similar to designing structures to resist earthquakes, both of which can be a real challenge even for developed countries.  For developing countries, it can be even more difficult.  In 2005, Lisa received a Boren Fellowship to study Turkish and conduct Ph.D. research on the earthquake resistance of buildings in developing countries. 

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