Lohez Foundation Partners on Europe/Asia Dual-Degree Program

Lohez Foundation Partners on Europe/Asia Dual-Degree Program

The Graduate Dual-Degree Program on Europe and Asia in Global Affairs is a transnational joint-venture between Sciences Po in Paris, France, and Fudan University in Shanghai, China.

These two great universities have partnered with the Jérôme Lohez 9/11 Scholarship Foundation to open scholarship opportunities for all students who are enrolled in the graduate dual-degree program. The first year of study will take place in Paris, and the second year of study will take place in Shanghai.

The Europe and Asia in Global Affairs dual degree is available to all students who are interested in analyzing European and Asian studies from both comparative and international relations perspectives.

The European Union sees Asia as the new frontier of its international policies due to the important challenges it faces on an economic and a geopolitical level. At the same time, this dual degree is aimed at European specialists who would like to deepen their understanding of Europe through a comparison with Asia; at Asian specialists who aspire to strengthen their understanding of Asia in relation to other regions; and at International Relations specialists eager to acquire a more specific insight on the challenges and content of Europe-Asia relations. The students enrolled in this dual-degree program will benefit from the research network that exists between Sciences Po and Fudan University in international relations.

Graduates of this dual degree will have access to a wide range of career openings in European affairs in Europe or elsewhere in the world.

The deadline for applications to the Lohez Foundation is Sept. 30, 2014. The board will meet to review submissions in mid-October and scholarship winners will be announced in early November. The award presentation reception is usually held at the French Consul’s residence in Shanghai.

Lohez Scholar Andres Lizcano Rodriguez Published in Huffington Post World

Lohez Scholar Andres Lizcano Rodriguez Published in Huffington Post World

Learning from Hardship: Colombia's Reintegration Process

Learning from Hardship: Colombia’s Reintegration Process

“This is my most important appointment today,” said Alejandro Eder, the director general of the Colombian Agency for Reintegration (ACR), who spoke to students and faculty at Columbia University on January 28th. Eder, a SIPA alumnus, was visiting his alma mater to discuss the Colombian program for reintegration of demobilized paramilitaries and guerrilla members, whose success has motivated collaboration with 22 other countries.

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Professor Jacques Barzun Dies at Age 104

Professor Jacques Barzun Dies at Age 104

The Jérôme Lohez 9/11 Scholarship Foundation mourns the loss of Professor Jacques Barzun, who died Oct. 25, 2012, in San Antonio, Texas, at the age of 104.

The Foundation inaugurated and presented the first Jacques Barzun Award for Distinguished Contributions to Trans-Cultural Scholarly Exchange in May 2012, in recognition of Dr. Barzun’s immense contributions to trans-cultural understanding and exchange between the United States and France.

To read an appreciation of Dr. Barzun’s life and work in the ColumbiaNews online, please Click Here.

Our Sponsors 2009-2010

Our Sponsors 2009-2010

2009-2010 Corporate Contributors

Alliance Française / French Institute
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Dening Lohez
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Michael Tahmisyan
Guy Wildenstein

Friends

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Board Member Contributors

Adriana Agbo
Stephane Bouniol
Phillip Carls
Mark Denne
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Vincent De Lagabbe
Barbara Wing

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Geopolitical Analysis by Lohez 2009 Scholar, Major Jordan Becker, Wins George C. Marshall Prize

Geopolitical Analysis by Lohez 2009 Scholar, Major Jordan Becker,  Wins George C. Marshall Prize

In-Depth Analysis of Issues Confronting U.S. in NATO & Afghanistan

Transatlantic Burden Sharing and Out of Area Operations

 


The recipient of a 2009 Lohez Foundation Award, Major Jordan Becker, has received the George C. Marshall Prize for Strategic Studies. The award recognizes a graduating student from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) for an outstanding paper addressing issues of defense policy, military strategy, arms control, intelligence, peacekeeping, negotiation, and alternatives to the use of force as an instrument of policy. Becker won for his paper titled “Pillar or Pole? NATO, European Security and Defense Initiatives, and the Transatlantic Relationship.” To read Becker’s award-winning paper, please Click Here.

Becker also has had a scholarly paper published in the prestigious Chicago Policy Review, titled “Transatlantic Burden Sharing and Out of Area Operations: Afghanistan in the Context of Historic Trends.” To download a copy of that article, please Click Here

Jérôme Lohez Gala Featured in French Morning

Jérôme Lohez Gala Featured in French Morning

The Jérôme Lohez Foundation was created after the death of Robert Jérôme Lohez on 11 September, 2001 in the World Trade Center. His widow Dening Lohez decided to distribute scholarships to young Americans to study in France and young French making the journey in reverse. “I can honor my French husband’s memory by helping foster Franco-American exchanges. I remain astonished by the most subtle misunderstandings internationally and the inability of people to get on the same wavelength. Life can not fully be lived unless we take advantage of all the chances to meet others.”


The Jérôme Lohez foundation is affiliated with the most prestigious schools, School for Computing and Advanced Technologies (EPITA), Columbia University – School of Engineering and Applied Science, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), and the Stevens Institute of Technology. Although this scholarship has an academic component, it also attaches to the values of students, their professional and personal development and background. As such, the project is currently supporting Dochez Pauline who is travelling the world to meet and help women or Captain Jordan Becker, who spent ten years in the U.S. Army and conducted combat patrols in Iraq.

Pauline Dochez young winner confirms this view. “I never applied for another scholarship, and am proud to have been selected, one feels understood and supported. Without this scholarship I would not have had the confidence to fully lead my own projects. The sum awarded to students is not sufficient to pay for an entire school year but is a nice way to give them confidence and encourage them. France welcomes and encourages “the generous action and useful forum for cultural and educational exchanges. It’s a great answer to the monstrous attack perpetrated against the Twin Towers.”

The competition for the award 2010 – 2011 is open. It will be awarded to a student at Columbia University pursuing a degree in one of three French institutions, a student from one the three French institutions pursuing an academic year at Columbia University and a student of the The School for Computing and Advanced Technologies. The deadline for applications is September 30, 2010.

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This article was first published in French Morning on 19 November 2009:
http://frenchmorning.com/ny/2009/11/19/prestige-et-bourse-universitaire/