Sciences Po. Alumni

Help needed for AAGEF and its Club des Dirigeants (Executive Club)
The Events team needs to find a volunteer to help to organize conferences, panel discussions, galas and happy hours for The Association des Amis des Grandes Ecoles de France and its Executive Club throughout the year.
As the online registrations system manager, you will have a lot of visibility into the end-to-end events organization process.

The 2009 scholarship program is now open to applications. The program is structured to benefit outstanding students from colleges and universities in the United States interested in studying at Sciences Po at an undergraduate, graduate or post-graduate level. The deadline for submission of all materials is June 16th 2009.

Enjoy an evening with photographer Matthew Pillsbury.

Over the course of 15 images, Pillsbury showcases a variety of Parisian sites, many of them iconic, some of them commonplace. His subjects range from a service at La Sainte Chapelle, to the haunting Père Lachaise cemetery, to the grand Bon Marché department store. His style succeeds in trumping our assumptions about the famed city and delivers surprising results. 

Thursday April 16, 2009, from 6:30 to 8:00 P.M. at
The French Institute Alliance Française,
22 East 60th Street New York, 10022

Contribution: $10 per person

Please register on line at:
http://anamericaninthecityoflight.eventbrite.com

Get in Touch with your Local Chapter

Sign up and participate in social events, debates and other academic and business activities in your local area. Sciences Po Alumni USA has local chapters in New York, Washington DC, Chicago and Boston. We expect to establish additional chapters in other areas soon. Participate in our growth in the US - contact us and get involved in your local area. Or if you're traveling to these cities, let us know you're in town.

Dear Friends:
 
On behalf of our Association, Happy Holidays and best wishes for a prosperous 2009.
 
As you know, the last 6 months were a period of changes and revival with the election of a new enlarged Board of Directors of 18 members and new officers. Our new team continued the implementation of reforms and scholarships program initiated by our predecessors and developed a close cooperation with both Sciences Po and the Alumni Association in Paris.
 
The 2008 scholarship awards for a total of $35,000 were decided by a jury chaired by Roland Tricot, Director in charge of the Scholarship Program, on June 24. It was the culmination of a rigorous process that we will reiterate, with some minor modifications, in 2009 as we have earmarked an additional $35,000 for this coming year. We want to continue to expand the scholarship program as it becomes a trade mark of our association and is an excellent vehicle to further strengthen fraternal links across the Atlantic as well as between alumni, faculty and students. We are discussing with our partners in Paris ways to further develop and fund scholarships and possibly open the program to also finance teaching and research. We will seek your suggestions in this respect at an upcoming Board Meeting.
 
Our Director of Events, Elisabeth Puissant has been quite busy. Our "Chocolate and Champagne" reception at Gallerie Steuben on October 2  had 102 participants and the conference of Professor Louer from Sciences Po on November 19 at the French Embassy New York Office had 39 attendees. Unfortunately we had to postpone our dinner discussion with Adam Gopnik as our guest speaker had to travel unexpectedly to Canada but this event is now rescheduled for January 21 at Brasserie Cognac. Invitations will be emailed early January; please register by clicking on the event below.

Marianne Stone (University of Texas), one of the recipients of the 2008 Scholarship Program, shares with us her delight after being awarded a $10,000 Scholarship:

"Deciding to go to Graduate School was an easy decision for me. I knew that I was interested in the dual degree program that is offered by Sciences- Po and SIPA because I felt that it would give me a good international foundation for my future career. However, once I had made this decision I had to concentrate on how I would be able to finance my education.

The Sciences Po Alumni Association in the United States, in close cooperation with Sciences Po Avenir, launched a new program aimed at companies and non-for-profit organizations in the United States.
The main purpose of the program, currently, is to assist 3rd year students to find long term (at least 8 months) internships and to facilitate contacts with hiring firms. Potential employers are the US subsidiaries of European firms, American companies, non profit associations and governmental entities.

The History of Sciences Po Alumni USA

The Association was founded in 1957 by Mr. René Henry-Gréard, Professor at the IEP, director and founder in 1951 of the periodical "La Revue Francaise de Science Politique." Mr. Henry-Gréard came to New York at the time with the purpose of establishing this organization. Upon consulting the recent registration records, he invited a group of students who had recently attended Sciences Po in Paris.