Local Fellowships (for Wesleyan students only; supported by the FEAS Center and other sources)
Summer Language Study Fellowships
Limited funds are available to support, usually only partially, Wesleyan undergraduates planning on intensive summer language study in East Asia.
Freeman Asian/Asian American Initiative Summer Research Grants
The Initiative welcomes proposals from sophomores and juniors for summer research on Asian American and Asian Diaspora topics, carried out in Asia, in the Americas, or elsewhere.
Davenport Study Grants
For support of summer research in the social sciences
General Fellowships
Princeton in Asia
Internship program for recent graduates who want to teach/intern in East asia.
Gilman Scholarship
Scholarships for US students on financial aid.
Bridging
Scholarship for Study abroad Japan.
Blakemore
Competitive one year language scholarships for graduating seniors, mid-level professionals in East Asia, or academics.
Freeman-Asia
Support for summer or semester study abroad. Note that for summer 2005, students applying for Freeman-Asia grants will be ineligible for most summer language support through the FEAS Center (on which see above).
David L. Boren Undergraduate Scholarships
From the National Security Education Program. Mainly for full year, or summer and fall. Service requirement: within 3 years after graduating, must attempt to work for US Govm't (see website for specific agencies) for at least one year.
National Flagship Language Initiative Fellowships
NFLI programs have been developed at several U.S. institutions of higher education for advanced language training in Arabic, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, and Russian. Each program is designed to train participants to reach "professional working proficiency" in a target language. NFLI Fellowship recipients will incur a substantial U.S. federal service obligation as a condition of receiving an award. See website for details.
Internships
Note that many of these internship placement services charge up-front fees.
Nambu Foundation
Internships in Japan.
Alliances for Study Abroad and Internship in Thailand
Includes internship program in NGO/business/English for summer and year in Thailand.
AbroadCHINA
Includes internship placement service in for China
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