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News • December 5, 2018

Bollinger Fund helps international LBJ students explore the U.S.

The LBJ School of Public Affairs is fortunate to have a cohort of international students from all over the world who help bring fresh perspectives to public and social policy work. But earning a graduate degree is about more than attending classes and doing research. Thanks to the William and Judith Bollinger International Student Enrichment Fund, a group of nine LBJ masters students headed to Chicago Nov. 2-4 to get a taste of life outside of Austin.

A group of LBJ international master's degree students visit the Art Institute of Chicago as part of a weekend sponsored by the Bollinger Fund.

Feature • October 3, 2018

LBJ student interns with health care, education startups in Ghana

As a Crook Fellow, I spent my summer in Accra, Ghana, interning as a communications and marketing consultant for two Ghanaian NGOs. Currently, I am a second-year dual master's student in Global Policy Studies and journalism, so this internship combined my academic interests, which was amazing.

The Health Innovation Program team in Ghana

Feature • October 3, 2018

LBJ student supports a nonprofit during crisis

I interned with a small 501(c)(3) nonprofit that works with Nicaraguan women to engage communities in improving food security, nutrition and care for the earth. It creates and maintains bio-intensive gardens at schools and at homes, works on reforestation and seed saving, and supports arts collectives run by garden participants with the potential to sell crafts for additional income.

A worker with Artists for Soup, which works with Nicaraguan women

Feature • October 2, 2018

LBJ student combines love of chocolate with public policy

The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) may sound like an atypical organization to host a Master of Public Affairs student for a six-month Policy Apprenticeship. When I tell friends, peers and alumni where I am working in DC, I often see looks of confusion and delight simultaneously appear on their faces.

LBJ student Melanie Levine holds a stuffed cocoa bean at the World Cocoa Foundation

Feature • October 2, 2018

LBJ student works on Capitol Hill to end hunger

I interned at Bread for the World Institute, a nonpartisan research group focused on ending hunger. As a research fellow, I fully expected — and hoped — to spend my summer at a desk focused on conflict, migration and food insecurity in the Middle East.

LBJ Student and Crook DC Fellow Sarah Rush in front of the Capitol in Washington, DC

News • August 30, 2018

Gone to Texas 2018

In the 1820s, three letters began appearing across the American frontier, etched into front doors and posted on fences: GTT. The cabins and farms were abandoned. Their former occupants had “Gone to Texas! ”

female white skinned hand holding Hook 'Em Horns in front of white marble plaza and tan tower at sunset

Feature • June 21, 2018

5 tips to make the most out of your internship

The Office of Career Management at the LBJ School of Public Affairs is a centralized office charged with assisting students and alumni with meeting their career goals while making connections between their academic studies and life beyond the university.

Feature • June 12, 2018

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