The Institute of International Education (IIE) is pleased to announce that it will re-launch the Freeman-ASIA Program with a generous grant from the Freeman Foundation.  Applications can be submitted online starting in January 2011 for study abroad beginning in Summer 2011.  Freeman-ASIA scholarships will be available for study abroad anytime through the 2012-13 academic year, with application deadlines listed on the program website. Please inquire within the Fellowships Office to learn more about this opportunity.

Reminder: Truman Scholarship Internal Deadline is Friday, December 10, 2010.  Please make sure all materials reach the Fellowships Office via email or hard copy by midnight on the 10th. 

Columbia College student Anna Feuer (CC’11) has been selected as a 2011 Marshall Scholar.  She is one of 31 recipients in this year’s competition.  An English major from Los Angeles, Anna will be attending Oxford next fall where she will spend her first year pursuing a Masters in Global and Imperial History followed by a Masters in English Literature in her second year.  Her area of specialization will be on the unique interactions between Irish and Indian writers during the early part of the twentieth century.  She has actively pursued language studies in Hindi and Urdu and spent a semester during her junior year studying in Hyderabad, India.  Outside of the classroom, Anna has been an editorial intern at W.W. Norton, n+1, and L.A. Weekly.  She has also worked at PEN USA and recently started a chapter of PEN here at Columbia. 

More than 1,000 alumni, students, parents and friends gathered under the Big Tent for Homecoming 2010, then watched the Lions mount a spirited fourth-quarter comeback before bowing to Dartmouth 24–21 in Ivy League football on October 23.

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It was a perfect day for fun and football, as mostly sunny skies and temperatures in the 60s welcomed Columbians of all ages who flocked to the Baker Athletics Complex to enjoy barbecue fare and convivial conversation at the annual Homecoming pre-game picnic and carnival. The Cleverest Band in the World lifted spirits in the tent with a rousing rendition of “Roar, Lion, Roar,” and Roar-ee the Lion posed for pictures with children in the carnival area.

The football team, which had trounced Princeton 42–14 in its Ivy opener three weeks earlier, scored a pair of touchdowns in the fourth quarter to take a 21–17 lead before Dartmouth responded with a 14-play scoring drive. Nick Schwieger’s second touchdown of the day, a one-yard run with 2:28 to play, capped that drive and provided the winning margin for Dartmouth. A boisterous crowd of 10,904, the largest of the season, attended the game at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium.

Homecoming was one of the highlights of Family Weekend, which also included campus and neighborhood tours, panels, lectures and open houses. The festivities began on Thursday and Friday with a two-day “Especially Open House” at the Columbia Alumni Center at 622 W. 113th St., and culminated with the annual Black Alumni Homecoming celebration on Saturday night. Columbia recognized the members of the third class of the Athletics Hall of Fame at a black-tie dinner on Friday night and a halftime ceremony on Saturday, and the renovated baseball facility was rededicated in honor of Phillip M. Satow ’63 on Saturday.

Alex Sachare ’71

This scholarship was named for Michel David-Weill, an alumnus of Sciences Po and former chairman of Lazard Frères investment bank.  It is administered by the Michel David-Weill Foundation.  This scholarship – awarded every second year – provides an American student seeking to pursue his or her Masters degree at Sciences Po, one of the leading French universities in human and social sciences in France, with $80,000 to cover the cost of attendance over the course of two years.  Please reach out to the Fellowships Office for more information.