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Georgetown Receives $1 Million Gift From Yahoo!

April 12th, 2007

Georgetown University announced today it has received a $1 million dollar gift from Yahoo! to establish a Yahoo! International Values, Communications, Technology, and Global Internet Fellowship Fund. The fund will support the education and research activities of an annual Yahoo! Fellow in Residence and two Junior Yahoo! Fellows who will study the link between international values and Internet and communication technologies.

Georgetown’s first Yahoo! Fellow in Residence and Junior Yahoo! Fellows are expected to begin their research on campus during the fall 2007 semester. They will study how international values impact the development and use of new communication technologies such as how the operation and regulation of the global internet affects personal privacy, freedom of expression, education, socio-cultural change and cross-national contacts among civil society groups. The fund, which will support annual Yahoo! Fellows housed at the School of Foreign Service’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (ISD) over the next eight years, builds upon the School’s mission to foster academic-practitioner collaborations around key foreign policy issues.

The Yahoo! Fellow in Residence will be a professional selected from the corporate, government and/or academic sectors whose interests relate to the interaction of communications technologies and national systems and practices, with an emphasis on countries rapidly expanding in the global marketplace such as China, India, Russia and Brazil. Junior Yahoo! Fellows will be selected among graduate students in the Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) program. In addition to their research activities, Yahoo! Fellows will collaborate with faculty in the MSFS program to enhance curricular activities by contributing to guest lectures, special seminars, case studies and course modules. Read the full story here.

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