Category: Fellows in the News
Fellows in the News
June 16, 2019
RFG Fellow Tom Babington Quoted in The Washington Post on Trump’s Global Effort to Help Women in Developing World
Ivanka Trump, the daughter of the president and a senior White House adviser, announced a new global effort [in February] to help 50 million women in the developing world by 2025. “This new initiative will for the first time coordinate America’s commitment to one of the most undervalued resources in the developing world — the […]
Fellows in the News
June 16, 2019
West Working in Netherlands on Energy Transition for Industry
Kira West (UMD, Class of 2012) is beginning work as a researcher studying the energy transition for the industrial sector at the Energy Research Center of the Organization for Applied Scientific Research in the Netherlands. The institution is funded by the Dutch government, and has a public-service oriented mission of creating innovation to benefit society in a […]
Fellows in the News
June 16, 2019
RFG Fellow Tucker Boyce to Tour Europe on Nuclear Safeguards
Tucker Boyce (UMD, Class of 2020) was selected to participate in the International Nuclear Facilities Experience program, which is funded by a National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) grant to Texas A&M University and Argonne National Laboratory. He will travel to Europe for the program with a group of graduate students and national laboratory employees. Their […]
Fellows in the News
January 13, 2019
7 Fellows Named 2019 Finalists for the Presidential Management Fellowships
The PMF Program received 4,045 applications and selected 351 Finalists for the Class of 2019. Seven RFG Fellows are among the finalists, who are selected based on eligibility for the program as well as the candidates’ application, assessment scores, and federal agencies’ reported hiring projections. The Class of 2019’s Finalists represent 56 disciplines, 113 academic institutions, […]
Fellows in the News
December 20, 2018
RFG Fellow Andy Gupta Publishes about Sri Lanka’s Political Crisis on Asia Society Blog
Are zero prime ministers better than two? Sri Lanka is about to find out, wrote 2013 RFG Fellow Andy Gupta on the Asia Society blog on December 4, 2018. After five weeks of dramatic political developments that resemble a dark political thriller, Colombo is currently embroiled in an unprecedented political crisis that has undermined its […]