Interpreting for the State Department
Jennifer Cho graduated with a MA in Conference Interpretation from the Monterey Institute last May. After graduating, she landed two prestigious internships. The first was a Translation and Terminology Fellowship with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland. Jennifer translated patents for WIPO, which is a UN Organization.
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Adam Fullerton: Conservation from Washington D.C. to Ecuador
"These projects motivate me to work again on community-based conservation programs."
This summer, as a fellow with the Center for the Blue Economy, Adam worked on sea turtle conservation with Conservation International in Washington D.C. He also visited Ecuador to learn about lobster conservation efforts. Watch this video to learn more about Adam's work.
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Lisa Johnston: 10 Questions for a Center for Blue Economy Fellow
"The organizations offering Center for the Blue Economy (CBE) Fellowships are some of the best in this field. These are not easy internships to get outside of the CBE!"
1) Your Center for the Blue Economy Fellowship was with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). What was that like?
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Alyssum Pohl: Dream Internship at the World Wildlife Fund
"I had my dream internship handed to me on a silver platter."
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MIIS Students Dominate Field of Candidates Selected for Prestigious UN Fellowship
Of the sixteen graduate students chosen from a worldwide pool of candidates for the 2011 Translation and Terminology Fellowships at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), nine—or 56 percent—come from the Monterey Institute. The prestigious fellowship is a paid position for at least three months with the organization.
Kate Bollinger: Exploring Nepal for the First Time
Kate Bollinger is a graduate student in International Policy Studies, with a focus on international development and the region of South Asia. Kate already has a master’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oxford, where she pursued field research and language study in India and Nepal. She also traveled to Nepal last summer to promote women’s reproduction rights with the Advocacy Project.
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Three Monterey Institute Students Among 20 National Scholars to Receive Prestigious Pickering Fellowship
Fifteen percent—three out of 20—of the national scholars chosen for the prestigious Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship this year are students of the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Jaime LeBlanc-Hadley, Leah Severino and Juan Vazquez will receive support during their two years of study at MIIS as well as during two internships, one domestic and one overseas. As part of the fellowship award, the students commit to serve for three years as U.S. State Department foreign service officers after graduation.
Mahmoud I. Abdalla
Mahmoud Abdalla earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in applied linguistics at Essex University and the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. He has taught and lectured extensively on linguistics, Arabic language, and Arab culture and media in several universities and academic institutions in Egypt, Europe, and the United States. He was previously the academic director of the Arabic Language Flagship Program and the coordinator of the Arabic Program in the Department of Linguistics and German, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages at Michigan State University.
MIIS Alums Are Only Two U.S.-Sponsored English Language Fellows in Afghanistan
Jaala Thibault (MATESOL ’07) and Tara Bates (MATESOL ’07) are getting settled in Kabul, Afghanistan this week, where they will serve as the only two U.S. State Department English Language Fellows in the country this year. “Being selected as an English Language Fellow for the State Department is one of the most prestigious positions a recent MA graduate in TESOL or TFL can achieve,” says TESOL Professor Kathleen Bailey.
Six MIIS Students Selected for Prestigious Nonproliferation Fellowship Program
Talking about the global reputation of the Monterey Institute’s James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies is one thing; having it convincingly demonstrated is quite another. As of June 2010, MIIS/CNS students will occupy almost a full quarter of the total number of positions in one of the nation’s most prestigious government-sponsored nonproliferation fellowship program.
