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Photo at left: Student ambassador Laura Wienand ('05), Cannis Choy (Hong Kong), Nubia Pinto (Brazil), Lily Lam (Hong Kong), and May Chaiworasin (Thailand) at a luncheon for Mellon Scholars and international students in January 2005.
Mellon Scholars receive room, board, tuition for a semester or year of study at St. Mary's College of Maryland. Students are expected to study in the social sciences. The Center funds special lectures, lunches, dinners and trips for the Mellon Scholars during their stay at St. Mary's.
In March 2005, Mellon Scholars participated in a Center panel, "At Home Abroad: Perceptions of America and Americans," that was featured in the Washington Post, "Foreign Students Offer Perspectives on the U.S." The Mellon Scholars also visited Washington, D.C. in the spring 2005 for a study trip where they toured CNN's Washington bureau, lunched at Union Station and toured the Capitol and the Library of Congress.
Photo at right (from l to r) Brook Main ('05, studied in Italy), Alvaro McRae ('05, studied in Costa Rica), and Mellon Scholars Nubia Pinto (Brazil) and Nui Ratsamee (Thailand) with Center Director Zach Messitte discussing anti-Americanism.
SMCM students are also eligible for Mellon scholarship stipends to study abroad in The Gambia, Brazil, Senegal or Thailand.
The Center's International Mellon Scholars
Summer 2006 Lisa Cote '09 (to The Gambia) Jessica Porter '08 (to The Gambia) Jennifer Covington '07 (to The Gambia) Sean Reid '07 (to The Gambia) Brenna Doyle '08 (to The Gambia) Molly Vogel '08 (to The Gambia) Margaret Ingram '08 (to The Gambia) Trevor Zarker '08 (to The Gambia) Megan O'Hara '07 (to The Gambia)
Spring 2006 Fall 2005 Meredith DeViney '07 (to Thailand) Omar Bah (The Gambia) Kate Wersan '07 (to The Gambia)
Spring 2005 Fall 2004 May Chaiworasin (Thailand) Ana Luisa de Araujo Dias (Brazil) Anta Niang (Senegal) Edrissa Gassama (The Gambia) Nubia Pinto (Brazil) Fatou Kargbo (The Gambia) Nui Ratsamee (Thailand) May Chaiworasin (Thailand) Anta Niang (Senegal)
IREX Fellows The Center welcomed Cholopon Moldobaeva from the Kyrgyz Republic during the spring 2005 semester as a visiting IREX (International Research and Exchanges Board) fellow. In cooperation with the Political Science Department at St. Mary's College, Ms. Cholopon studied "Gender Policy and Access of Women to Politics." Ms. Cholopon is a senior expert in the Ministry of Finance in the Department of External Debts for the Kyrgyz Republic.
During the spring 2004 semester the Political Science Department at St. Mary's College and the Center welcomed Mykhaylo Nakhod from the Ukraine as a visiting IREX fellow. Mr. Nakhod is the Director of Political Research Department at the Consortium for Intellectual Service "Leon-Analitik" in Lutsk, Ukraine. He studied the American electoral system and participate in political science classes and Center events. Russian Leadership Program
Topics for the lectures, colloquia,
and discussions during the fall semester, 2002: (1) managing a local
environment; (2) encouraging women in the worlds of academia, government,
and business; (3) understanding federal, state, and local elections; and
(4) understanding federalism and the law.
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The Center
received a three-year grant from the 
In
2002, the Center was awarded a grant from the Library of Congress and its
Open World Leadership Program to conduct four intensive week-long introductions to American democratic
life for groups of Russian leaders. 