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Land Bridge International Writers' Group: Creative Writing for Northern Arizona
Summer Jobs - U.S. Embassy's Worldwide
American Leaders Who Have Studied Abroad
International Office Photo Contest
Expanding Your World

The Land Bridge International Writers’ Group

“Creative Writing for Northern Arizona – Bridging cultures and taking names.”

Hello everyone. My name is Zack Jernigan. I recently returned from Santiago, Chile, where I spent the final semester of my Religious Studies undergraduate career. With the help of the Gilman Scholarship and NAU's international Office, my costs were minimized greatly. In order to promote international learning and make people aware of the scholarship opportunities available to anyone wishing to study abroad (as well as liking to read and write), I have formed The Land Bridge Writers Group.

I hope to attract a creative group of people to the group, and produce works of fiction, non-fiction, or poetry for publication. I am looking for pieces written by students while studying abroad (or returned home), as well as works written by anyone interested in the subject of cultural diversity in general.

We meet every other Tuesday, and the next meeting will be the 7th of March at Bookmans (near the cafe). If you have any questions, email me at enjino9@netscape.net, go to www.myspace.com/santiagocolumbar, call me at 928-282-7433, or stop by Bookmans Saturday through Thursday between 9 to 5 (generally) and ask for the bald, surly employee named Zack (there's more than one that fit the description of bald and surly).

Thanks a lot!"

Zachary Jernigan

Summer Jobs - US embassy - 90 locations world wide

Spend a summer working in a U.S. Embassy in one of 90 locations throughout the world!

The USDA Foreign Agricultural Service's International Internship Program is a PAID internship program and is in need of applicants!

This is an annual program. Applications are due in mid-February each year. Check the program web page for details.

The Foreign Agricultural Service's International Internship Program provides college students the opportunity to live and work in a paid internship at an American Embassy overseas. Through work assignments participants learn various aspects of international trade, trade policy, international relations, diplomacy, regional and cultural considerations, etc.

Positions are available in Western Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

The internship is offered every semester and summer for graduate students and pperclassmen (juniors and seniors).

Requirements:
Be a currently enrolled graduate or undergraduate student (must be a junior or a senior), a U.S.citizen and in good academic standing. Graduate level students in business, international
relations, regional studies (i.e. Latin American Studies, Asian Studies, etc), public policy, foreign languages, etc., as well as high-achieving junior and senior undergraduates in similar majors are particularly encouraged to apply, though the program is open to all majors.

Please see the application at this website:

http://www.fas.usda.gov/admin/student/summerintern.htm

This internship program is a great way to get international experience and expose yourself to career fields you may never have considered.

Many people who went on to assume leadership roles in the arts and letters, science, medicine, education, business, communications, and government studied abroad. Here are some of them:

Carl Albert, Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives John Lithgow, Actor
Maya Angelou, Poet Richard Lugar, U.S. Senator
Curtis Barnette, Chairman, Bethlehem Steel Daniel P. Moynihan, Diplomat & U.S. Senator
James Billington, Librarian of Congress Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J., President,
Derek Bok, President, Harvard University Georgetown University
John Brademas, President, New York University Alfred Partoll, Senior Vice President, AT&T
Hal Bruno, Political Director, ABC News Philip Pearlstein, Painter
Max Burns, U.S. Representative Thomas Pickering, Diplomat and Business Leader
Ben “Nighthorse” Campbell, U.S. Senator Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President
Wesley Clark, General, USA (Ret’d) Dean Rusk, Secretary of State
Bill Clinton, 42nd President John Tower, U.S. Senator
Thad Cochran, U.S. Senator David Souter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Rosa DeLauro, U.S. Representative Admiral Stansfield Turner, Director, CIA
Rita Dove, U.S. Poet Laureate Katherine Harris, U.S. Representative
W.E.B. Dubois, Author/Educator James Oberstar, U.S. House of Representatives
Paul Farmer, Medical Anthropologist J. Robert Oppenheimer, Physicist
Renee Fleming, Soprano Sylvia Plath, Author
Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize Winning Economist Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
Theodore Seuss Geisel, Author Walt Rostow, Presidential Adviser
Margaret Greenfield, Washington Post Paul Sarbanes, U.S. Senator
Joseph Heller, Author David Vitter, U.S. Senator
John Hersey, Author James Watson, Nobel Prize Winning Biochemist
John Irving, Author Gene Wilder, Actor
Stacey Keach, Actor George Will, Syndicated Columnist
Anthony Kennedy, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Heather Wilson, U.S. Representative

NAU study abroad students are encouraged to submit photographs from their experiences abroad for the annual NAU International Office Photo Contest.

Note: Selected winning photographs will also require a negative to be submitted or if digital the original image digital file

Submissions can be of any content but students should consider the following guidelines when choosing their submissions:

*All submitted photographs will be kept by the NAU International Office and may be used for various marketing purposes.

Northern Arizona University is embarking on a campus wide internationalization strategy that will ideally increase international program opportunities for NAU students and make the campus more reflective of the greater global connections that are reflected in all aspects of humanity.

We would like to hear from you about your study abroad experience. Take a few minutes to write a few paragraphs about your experience. How did it affect you? What value do you place on having these experiences? Make your voice known about your international experiences. The stronger your voice, as students that gain from these experiences, the greater the chance for more opportunities to be available. The International Office will be sharing your stories, along with the stories of NAU professors and staff who pursue professional interests at an international level and foreigners that make Northern Arizona University a part of their education experience, to the NAU community through our electronic campus newsletter. We have a section titled "Expanding Their World" where we highlight stories from these groups. .

You may email Matthew Geisler (Matthew.Geisler@nau.edu) with any submissions that you have. Please send along digital pictures, if possible, of your experiences abroad, so that they can be integrated into your story.