UO senior earns top scholarship.Byline: Greg Bolt The Register-Guard A University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. senior who plans to study international politics and African studies African studies (also known as Africana studies) is the study of Africa, and can encompass such fields as social and economic development, politics, history, culture, sociology, anthropology or linguistics. A specialist in African studies is referred to as an Africanist. has become the school's first-ever recipient of the prestigious Marshall Scholarship Marshall Scholarships were created by the British Parliament when the Marshall Aid Commemoration Act was passed on July 31, 1953. The scholarships serve as a living gift to the United States of America in recognition of the post World War II European recovery effort most . Alletta Brenner will pursue master's degrees in both subjects during a two-year stay at the University of Edinburgh (body, education) University of Edinburgh - A university in the centre of Scotland's capital. The University of Edinburgh has been promoting and setting standards in education for over 400 years. beginning this fall. She will graduate from the UO this spring with a double major in history and women's and gender studies with a minor in political science. Brenner, a Presidential Scholar at the UO, also was a finalist for a Rhodes Scholarship. The Marshall and Rhodes scholarships are considered the most distinguished honors for post-baccalaureate study. Brenner said she hadn't intended to apply for the scholarship but pursued it after Marilyn Linton, the UO associate vice provost for undergraduate studies, urged her to try for it. That was after Linton heard Brenner present a paper that earned her the university's Undergraduate Library Research Award. "This sort of wasn't in my plan," Brenner said Wednesday. "The whole thing was sort of serendipitous ser·en·dip·i·ty n. pl. ser·en·dip·i·ties 1. The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident. 2. The fact or occurrence of such discoveries. 3. An instance of making such a discovery. , but it's turned out well." The Marshall Scholarship provides full tuition and living expenses as well as textbook, research and daily travel costs. The program was established in 1953 as a gesture of thanks from the British government for American assistance in rebuilding Europe after World War II and is named after Gen. George Marshall, author of the Marshall Plan Marshall Plan or European Recovery Program, project instituted at the Paris Economic Conference (July, 1947) to foster economic recovery in certain European countries after World War II. The Marshall Plan took form when U.S. . Brenner was among more than 400 students who applied for the scholarship. She flew to San Francisco for an interview at the British Consulate on Nov. 19 and is one of 43 chosen for the 2006 award. She was born and raised in Forest Grove and gained an interest in social justice issues while helping her parents bring food and clothing to migrant farm workers. In Scotland, her studies will focus on the role nongovernmental organizations play in international affairs, particularly in developing nations. "The number of NGOs has proliferated a lot in the last two decades, and these organizations are becoming more and more involved with government decision-making and with intergovernmental institutions like the United Nations and the European Union European Union (EU), name given since the ratification (Nov., 1993) of the Treaty of European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, to the European Community ," Brenner said. "And there's still a lot of questions about how these organizations should fit into the global political sphere and what kind of influence they have and about the ethical things involved when you have organizations trying to go to different places in the world and make changes there." Brenner's research will focus on the efforts of NGOs to end slavery in the African nation of Niger. When she completes those studies, she plans to spend two years in the Teach for America Teach For America (TFA) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to close the academic achievement gap between children from different socio-economic backgrounds. program and later hopes to go to law school and focus on international law. She hopes eventually to help establish international labor standards, particularly for countries that join cross-border trade agreements such as the North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Free Trade Act. |
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