Student News
PhD Candidate, Anna Rulska, was recently accepted in the Women in International Security Summer symposium is a highly competitive, six-day program in Washington D.C., comprising of workshops, seminars, and presentations on current security issues. This highly competitive and interactive program brings together graduate students in international affairs and leading policy experts, both academics and practitioners in a series of events designed to usher the young minds into the professional sphere of international security through career workshops, crisis-simulations, panel discussions and informal debates.
Olena Korotyanska, a GPIS Master's student, will have a summer internship at Hudson Institute Center for Future Security Strategies at Washington DC. She will work on a number of research projects dealing with national and international security topics. Hudson Institute is a non-partisan policy research organization dedicated to innovative research and analysis that promotes global security, prosperity, and freedom. Hudson's Institute Center for Future Security Strategies seeks to explore evolving, emerging, and imaginable international security environments, and to assess the implications of possible alternative futures for security strategies.
MAIS student, Yuliya Uvarova secured summer internship with the Student World Assembly in NYC. This is a nonprofit organization, which takes global democracy and youth activism to new levels. Major goals and objectives of the SWA include promoting global democracy, supporting human rights, encouraging grassroots learning, action and participation forums, developing leadership skills through hands-on organizing and advocacy for pressing global issues, fostering global development by introducing or reinforcing democracy through practical experience. The Student World assembly gives students from the most remote to the more accessible institutions an equal voice, and enables all students to educate, participate and take action, and to begin thinking of themselves as global citizens.
Cody Zimmerman, a GPIS PhD student, received a summer internship at Computer Sciences Corporation in the DC metropolitan area to research Small Arms/Light Weapons Elimination, the Defense Treaty Initiative Readiness Program (DTIRP), and International Counterproliferation Programs.
PhD student, Melodee Baines, authored a chapter in the book Crossing Over Redefining the Scope of Border Studies (November 2007 Cambridge Scholars). It is a collection of presentations from the Cleveland State University Crossing Over Symposium of 2005. Her chapter is entitled "Booze and la Bibine: An Intercultural Look into Alcohol Consumption in the United States and France during the 20th Century and Today"
GPIS doctoral students Christopher White and Melodee Baines presented research papers at the National Social Science Association Las Vegas Conference on Tuesday 8 April 2008. GPIS graduate Dr. Robert Pauly, professor at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM), chaired their panel. The panel theme was Homeland Security, and 3 other speakers from USM presented along with Christopher and Melodee.
Melodee's paper also won the National Social Science Association Graduate Student Paper Competition. The paper had to be presented at the National Social Science Association Las Vegas Conference by the author to be eligible. As winner Melodee received the $50 Gail McClay Award, two-year membership in NSSA and publication of her paper in the National Social Science Journal. Papers were judged on: clarity of writing, appropriateness for general social science audience, general advancement of knowledge, definition and significance of topic, analysis of findings and discussion of implications and overall handling of topic. The winning paper is titled: "Water in the Hashemite Kingdom: How policy decisions regarding water since 1946 have hindered and encouraged stability, security and prosperity in Jordan and the Middle East."
Congratulations to Melodee Baines, 2nd year PhD student, for receiving a Critical Language Scholarship from the U.S.Department of State. Melodee will be continuing her studies in Arabic but this year will be heading to Tangier, Morocco and the American Institute Maghrib Studies. She will pend nearly the entire summer learning Arabic and Moroccan dialect. In addition, the CLS program includes trips to local cultural sites to further students understanding of the culture.
