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Editorial

DAAD Alumna Sonja Thielges on Germany's New "Climate Package" and Transatlantic Cooperation

DAAD and American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) alumna Sonja Thielges published an op-ed on the AICGS website titled “Germany’s New ‘Climate Package’: Too Little, Too Late?”

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DAAD RISE Alumna Elana Stennett

Elana Stennett graduated from The College of Wooster with a BA-ACS certification in Chemistry in 2010. In 2015, she completed her PhD with a focus in biophysical chemistry at Arizona State University. After a year as a Visiting Assistant Professor at The College of Wooster, she accepted a tenure-track job at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY, as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Loving the Finger Lakes region in upstate New York, she enjoys hiking (during the summer) and knitting (during the winter).

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Barnard College Group Study Visit

With the support of a DAAD Group Study Visit Grant, Professor Joan Snitzer from Barnard College took some of her students on an art history and visual arts tour around the German capital.

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Meet us online!

Digital Career Booster Germany 2019

Together with the Goethe Institut in New York, we are once again organizing a Career Booster Day for high school and college students. The Career Booster Germany information and workshop fair will be offered for the first time online! Log in from anywhere in the U.S. or in the world and access the numerous presentations and panels offered by the Goethe-Institut and its partners.

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Come work with us!

Internship Opportunity: Program Support

We are looking for one intern from November 1 through December 31, 2019 (possibly longer) to help process scholarship applications!

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DAAD Grantee Brent McDonnell

Brent McDonnell is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Originally from New York, he received his Bachelor’s degree from Fordham University in 2014, double-majoring in Political Science and Italian Language and Literature, before completing a Master’s degree in the German and European Studies program at Georgetown in 2016. His current research project focuses on the far-right in Italy and West Germany from the late 1960s into the early 1980s.

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Holidays

DAAD Offices closed on 10/3

The DAAD offices in New York and San Francisco will be closed on Thursday, October 3rd in observance of German Unity Day (Tag der deutschen Einheit). We will reopen on Friday, October 4th and will be able to assist you then.

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Meet us in New York!

Career Booster Germany 2019 - NYC

Together with the Goethe Institut in New York, we are once again organizing a Career Booster Day for high school and college students. Representatives of DAAD, German business, universities and foundations will inform about study and career opportunities with German and in Germany.

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DAAD University Summer Course Grant Alumnus Varol Kahveci

Varol Kahveci was born in Turkey in a city called Konya, in the middle of Central Anatolia - Rumi-lovers probably already know the area! He spent three years in Istanbul and one year in England to complete his Bachelor's in Western Languages and Literatures. After completing his Master's at Dartmouth College in Comparative Literature, he began working on his Ph.D. in the Department of Germanic Languages at Columbia University in New York.

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Cable car driving on an uphill street in San Francisco. Photo courtesy PDPhoto.org

Meet us in SF, Oct. 15, 5-8pm!

Idealist Grad School Fair: San Francisco 2019

Are you an undergraduate or graduate student looking for opportunities in Germany? Or are you a career services or education abroad professional looking to expand your knowledge on what Germany has to offer as a study abroad and research destination? If so, join DAAD at the Idealist Grad School Fair in San Francisco.

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