$1 Million Yahoo! Gift to Support Teaching, Research, and Scholarships
MSFS courses and student scholarships will benefit from a Yahoo! grant of $1 million to the School of Foreign Service for an eight-year Project on International Values, Communications Technology & the Global Internet. The project will explore how international values could guide the development and use of communications technologies on issues such as personal privacy, freedom of expression, education, socio-cultural change, and cross-national contacts among civil society groups.
Each year a Yahoo! Fellow in Residence will be selected by the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy to conduct research and offer special courses or seminars in the MSFS Program, focusing on how international values apply to communications technologies, including operation and regulation of the global internet. Preference will be given to applicants with an interest in the large, emerging market economies of China, India, Russia, and Brazil.
Two half-tuition scholarships will be awarded annually to MSFS students selected as Junior Yahoo! Fellows. These students will be able to work on projects with the Yahoo! Fellow in Residence as well as engage with other faculty on related research topics. The grant will support projects that can be incorporated into the MSFS curriculum through guest lectures, special seminars, case studies and/or course modules.
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