A day in Admissions

9am: [large] coffee in hand, I was ready to conquer the applications I left sitting on my desk the night before… then the day got started… 9:30am: followed up on some emails.  counted days left before majority of the admission decisions are released in March <panic>. 10am: Fellowship Committee Meeting — reevaluating how funds are…

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Workshops and Capstone Selection

It is that time of the year when second year SIPA Students start working on their final project — also known as the “workshop” (for Economic and Political Development (EPD) concentrators) or “capstone” (as is the case of students for all other concentrations) and continue for the remainder of their last semester here.  The final…

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What’s going on at SIPA this week…

Monday, January 23, 2012 through Saturday, March 10, 2012 Ongoing Exhibit: Behind the Porous Curtain: Photography by Anatoly Pronin International Affairs Building, 12th Floor Harriman Atrium Harriman Institute Photography Exhibit with Anatoly Pronin. Monday, January 30, 2012 Saddam Hussein’s Ba’th Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime Middle East Institute Lecture with Joseph Sassoon, moderated by Timothy…

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External Fellowship Opportunity

We’d like to remind students interested in applying to the 2012 Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs & Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowships that the deadline is fast-approaching. The deadline for the Graduate Program is January 30th, 2012. The Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship Program includes: $40,000 annually towards tuition costs and related academic expenses…

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Looking for financial aid?

Financing a graduate education is a challenge. To assist in this regard, SIPA’s Office of Admissions and Financial Aid works with SIPA students to explore their options for loans, fellowships, and work study programs.  SIPA’s fellowship and assistantship funds (funds that do not have to be repaid after graduation) are very limited. Therefore, you should…

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