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University of Montana Mansfield Center Announces $12,000 In Pat Williams Scholarships

The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center of The University of Montana http://www.umt.edu/mansfield has awarded more than $12,000 to UM students pursuing internships and research projects in the area of public policy.

The center’s Public Policy and Leadership Initiative http://www.umt.edu/mansfield/pubpolicy/default.aspx offers the Pat Williams Scholarship for internship and research awards http://www.umt.edu/mansfield/pubpolicy/PatWilliams.aspx in the areas of public policy and leadership to both undergraduate and graduate students.

The scholarships are part of a project to foster civic responsibility in future leaders and further civil dialogue on domestic policy considerations. The initiative emphasizes the global nature of responsible decision-making, the ethical imperatives of leadership, and the skills necessary for careful policy analysis and development.

The Pat Williams Scholarships are awarded competitively to UM students pursuing internships and research related to public policy across a broad range of fields. This year’s recipients are:

* Zachary Brown, a sophomore from Bozeman – Internship to organize the Montana Environmental Student Alliance Conference.

* Emily Cross, a sophomore from Glendive – Research during Indian Himalaya study-abroad program.

* Mary Devlin, a graduate student from Annapolis, Md. – Internship at the Cape Town Refugee Centre.

* Cassandra Hemphill, a doctoral candidate from Missoula – Research on diffusion of stewardship contracting within U.S. Forest Service.

* Erik Hurd, a graduate student from Missoula – Research on the effectiveness of not-for-profit food distribution in alleviating hunger.

* Joseph Michael Husar, a graduate student from Harrison – Research on rural community vitality.

* Dustin Hutchins, a junior from Missoula – Internship at the Missoula Central Labor Council and Unite Here Union Local 427.

* Bradley Jones, a law student from Missoula and Lexington, N.C. – Research comparison of Montana and Chile’s constitutional provisions to a clean environment.

* Jonathan Leiman, a graduate student from Bethesda, Md. – Research on reliability, utility and political relevance of state-generated reference stream data in western Montana.

* Passang Norbu, a graduate student from Bhutan – Research on changes to news coverage in Bhutan’s print media.

* Emily Schembra, a senior from Annapolis, Md. – Internship with the Great Burn Study Group.

* Alexandra Schwier, a freshman from Bozeman – Research on undocumented migration from Mexico to the U.S.

* Kevin Thorsen, a senior from Great Falls – Internship with the Global Grizzlies Healthcare Project in Mongolia.

* Daniel Viehland, a junior from Tucson, Ariz. – Internship with the City of Missoula Communications Department.

* Katharina Werner, a graduate student from Nuremberg, Germany – Internship with Chaitanya Project in India.

* Waganesh Zeleke, a graduate student from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Research on the intrapsychic, family and social worlds of Ethiopian adopted children and their adoptive families in Montana.

* Group Award to Global Grizzlies – In addition to the individual award made to Thorsen, a group allocation was made to other participants on the Global Grizzlies program to provide health care during a visit to Mongolia.

The scholarships and select upcoming lectures are named in honor of Williams, who was U.S. Congressman from Montana during 1979-97 and a strong proponent of the federal legislation that started the Mansfield Center. Williams has taught at UM for 14 years and is a Senior Fellow at UM’s O’Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West.

East Asia and domestic policy were important issues to Mike Mansfield, the Butte miner who went on to become a revered statesman, the longest-serving U.S. Senate majority leader and ambassador to Japan. Mansfield Center Director Terry Weidner said the scholarships follow Mansfield’s example by emphasizing the global nature of responsible decision-making, ethical leadership and the skills necessary for considered policy development.

The scholarships are funded under a congressionally directed grant administered through the U.S. Department of Education, with appropriations of $238,000 in fiscal year 2009 and $200,000 in fiscal year 2010. The funding proposals were championed by U.S. Sen. Jon Tester and U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg. The initiative programs do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education and do not assume endorsement by the federal government.

For more information visit the Mansfield Center’s website at http://www.umt.edu/mansfield .

Contact:

Deena Mansour, project manager, UM Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center, 406-243-2713, [email protected] .

Full Story: http://news.umt.edu/2010/12/121310wlms.aspx

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