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Congratulations! Ella Watson-Stryker, MIA ’09, and fellow “Ebola Fighters” are Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2014. They were awarded the honor for their “tireless acts of courage and mercy, for buying the world time to boost its defenses, for risking, for persisting, for sacrificing and saving.”
Read about Time’s choice here.
Read the article on Ms. Watson-Stryker here.
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Julissa Reynoso, the U.S. ambassador to Uruguay, is a Columbia University-trained lawyer who joined the U.S. State Department in 2009 as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central America and the Caribbean in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs. Reynoso recently announced that she will step down as ambassador in December; she will return to New York to work at the law firm Chadbourne & Parke and teach a new course at SIPA on rule of law in Latin America (Seminar on Latin America: Challenges to Progress).
Reynoso emigrated to the United States from the Dominican Republic at the age of seven. She grew up in in New York City’s South Bronx and went on to attend Harvard University as an undergraduate, then Cambridge University in England, and then Columbia Law School, from which she graduated in 2001. She recently spoke with SIPA News about her career, plans for her course at SIPA, and more.
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Tsechu Dolma, MPA ’15, has received a Brower Youth Award in recognition of her efforts to create a model for sustainable food security in Nepal.
Six such awards are given each year, honoring young leaders of North America who pursue projects to benefit the environment.
Dolma’s project, a community greenhouse built with locally sourced material, aims to help residents of Geling, a village in Nepal’s Upper Mustang region, become more resilient to climate change.
Last month, SIPA alumni Dr. Li-Wen Zhang and Mr. Tshering Gyaltshen (Getse) Penjor spoke to current students about their extensive work experience at the United Nations.
Dr. Zhang, an Adjunct Professor at the Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University, served at the UN’s New York Headquarters for 27 years, and has worked in a variety of UN departments and offices including the Department of Political Affairs and the UN Security Council. Mr. Penjor, who achieved his MPA degree from the Program in Economic Policy Management (PEMP) in 1999, currently works as the Deputy Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Bhutan to the UN in New York.
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Each year, many of our students receive financial support from sources other than SIPA and Columbia University. But they didn’t stumble upon those sources by chance. We’ve realized that it can be time consuming searching the web for potential sources of financial aid, and want to offer you a helping hand. Below are five outside funding opportunities with deadlines that are fast approaching.
You can find many external funding sources by checking out our External Funding Page, where there are more than 240 different outside scholarships, grants and fellowships available for our outstanding students and those interested in public policy programs. Just keep in mind that external or outside awards may affect eligibility for student loans. There are also external funding sources that SIPA provides partial matches for, increasing recipients’ funding. Thus, notify the SIPA Financial Aid Office if you’ve received any additional funding, so that you do not miss out on any other funding opportunities.
If you have any questions about financial aid, contact us at 212-854-6216 or at [email protected].
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