The Global Affairs Institute of Syracuse University's Maxwell School announces the availability of awards to support students from Latin America wishing to pursue graduate degrees in public administration, international relations or one of the social sciences.

To be considered for one of these awards, candidates must be enrolled in one of Maxwell's programs or apply for admission indicating that they wish to be considered for the de Sardon-Glass support. They must demonstrate a commitment to public service. Award recipients will be required to sign a letter indicating their intention to return to their home countries to work in the public or not-for-profit sectors upon completing their degree program at Syracuse.

See: http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/gai/Programs/dsg.htm

This program provides funds for one year (not renewable) of graduate study to women who are not US citizens or residents. Preference is given to women who show prior commitment to the advancement of women and girls through civic, community or professional work.

See: www.aauw.org

The Rotary Foundation provides funding for a series of educational programs which seek to foster understanding and friendship between the people of different countries. There are several grant programs, among which the Good Will or Ambassadorial grants.

See: http://www.rotary.org/foundation/programs.html

The Institute of Advanced Study for the Americas (INEAM) offers two types of graduate study fellowships: self-placed and OAS placed. The deadlines are different. You can go to www.educoas.ort/portal or contact either the OPP office at Edificio Libertad (becas@opp.gub.uy) or the national office in the Mercosur Building (oeaurbla@adinet.com.uy).

This is a highly successful research center for interdisciplinary international studies at a leading Catholic university. The institute's research agenda focuses on five primary themes:

• Democratization and the quality of the democracy
• Growth and development
• Religion and the Catholic Church
• Social movements and organized civil society
• Public policies for social change

Candidates must have a PhD degree in social sciences or history.
Complete applications must be received by November 3, 2003.

For more details, please contact:

Sharon Schierling, Assistant Director
The Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies
130 Hesburgh Center, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556-5677
schierling.1@nd.edu

Applicants are invited to present proposals in social sciences and humanities, with attention to the following themes:

1. Governance (democratic institutions, civil society, citizen participation)
2. The United States role in the world
3. Key long-term future challenges confronting the US and the world.

For academic candidates, elegibility is limited to the postdoctoral level. For other applicants, an equivalent level of professional achievement is expected.
Deadline for receipt of applications is October 1, 2003.

For application forms:

www.wilsoncenter.org or
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20004-3027

Each year AFPF awards approximately 12 fellowships to mid-career print journalists usually between the ages of 25 and 35 from developing and transitional countries with an emerging free press.

The program starts with a two-week orientation in Washington DC, after which the fellows are assigned as staff reporters to a single American newsroom in a major or mid-size city for 6 months, rotating among different sections of the newsroom.

In its 19 year history, the program has had only one Uruguayan.

For more information and application forms: www.pressfellowships.org
Deadline for applications: February 1st 2003.

To further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts.

Eligibility: The Fellowships are awarded to men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.

Appointments are ordinarily made for one year.

In 2003 the Foundation awarded 37 Latin American and Caribbean Fellowships for a total of $1,150,000 (an average grant of $31,081). There were 737 applicants.

Requests for application forms for Fellowships should be addressed to: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 90 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016.

Deadlines: completed applications must be submitted by the candidates themselves no later than December 1, 2003. Final selection of Latin American and Caribbean Fellows for 2004 will be made in June 2004.

Please visit www.gf.org for more details.

An educational organization based in New York that specializes in management training on sustainable development issues, has tuition scholarships available for qualified candidates from the developing world, to pursue short-term courses in the following areas: Disaster Management, Entrepreneurship for Women, Environmental Management and Conservation, Media Tools for Governmental Public Relations, NGO's: Development and Management, Small Enterprises Development, Strategies for overcoming the Digital Divide, Teacher Training in Educational Technology.

The courses are taught in English. Minimum requirements are a University degree and relevant experience in the candidates' area of interest.

Once admitted in the program of their preference, candidates will be offered a tuition scholarship. They or their sponsors will then have to cover: the air fare and the non-tuition expenses which refer to all local transportation, hotel accommodation in New York and board during the length of the course.

Please visit the web site: www.nygtt.org.