Rising seniors, alumni, graduate and professional students at UW are encouraged to apply for the Luce Scholars Program (http://www.hluce.org/lsprogram.aspx).
This is great opportunity for those with little or no prior
experience in, or education about, Asian countries to add this valuable
perspective to their future career interests!
The UW is able to nominate 3 students per year
to compete nationally for the opportunity to spend 12 months in Asia.
The program provides stipends, language training and individualized
professional placement in Asia for fifteen to eighteen
young Americans each year.
During the current application cycle for the
2015-16 program, applicants must be American citizens who, by July 1,
2015, will have received at least a bachelor's degree and will not have
reached their 30th birthday. Applicants should
have a record of high achievement, outstanding leadership ability, and a
clearly defined career interest with evidence of potential for
professional accomplishment. Those who already have significant
experience in Asia or Asian studies are not eligible for
the Luce Scholars Program. (Eligibility criteria are set by the Henry
Luce Foundation; additional details are provided in the Program Summary
below.)
Information sessions covering the program basics, application and nomination process will be held:
·
Wednesday, May 21, 1:30pm, Mary Gates Hall 171 (please RSVP to attend at
https://expo.uw.edu/expo/rsvp/event/234)
·
Tuesday, May 27, 3:30pm, Mary Gates Hall 171 (please RSVP to attend at
https://expo.uw.edu/expo/rsvp/event/234)
Campus application deadline: Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2014
UW application and information at:
http://expd.washington.edu/scholarships/search/search-results.html?page_stub=luce
Luce Scholars Program Advisers at UW:
·
For graduate students or alumni - Marilyn Gray,
megray@uw.edu, G-1 Communications
·
For undergraduate students or alumni - Robin Chang,
robinc@uw.edu, 171 Mary Gates Hall
Program Summary:
The Luce Scholars Program represents a major
effort by the Henry Luce Foundation to provide an awareness of Asia
among potential leaders in American society. Launched in 1974, the Luce
Scholars Program is aimed at a group of highly qualified
young Americans in a variety of professional fields. It is unique among
American-Asian exchanges in that it is intended for young leaders who
have had limited experience of Asia and who might not otherwise have an
opportunity in the normal course of their
careers to come to know Asia.
Luce Scholars have backgrounds in virtually any
field other than Asian studies, including but hardly limited to medicine
and public health, the arts, law, science, environmental studies,
international development, and journalism.
Placements can be made in the following
countries or regions in East and Southeast Asia: Cambodia, China, Hong
Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines,
Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
In spite of its name, the Luce Scholars Program
is experiential rather than academic in nature. Some Scholars have been
attached to Asian universities in teaching or research capacities, but
none of the participants is formally enrolled
as a student in a college or university and no academic credit is
extended. Past placements have included an architect's atelier in Tokyo;
a public health program in Banda Aceh; a Gobi regional initiative in
Ulaanbaatar; a dance theatre in Kuala Lumpur; an
agricultural and environmental center in Hanoi; a human rights
commission in Seoul; a pediatric hospital in Bangkok; a TV network in
Beijing; a national museum in Siem Reap; an international arbitration
centre in Singapore; and English-language newspapers,
local governmental agencies and NGOs in diverse fields throughout East
and Southeast Asia.
Professional placements are arranged for each
Scholar on the basis of his or her individual interest, background,
qualifications, and experience. Each Scholar spends July and August
studying the language of the placement country, and
the work assignments run for approximately ten months from September
until July of the following year. The placements are intended primarily
as learning opportunities for the Scholars. Certainly it is hoped that a
Scholar will be able to make a professional
contribution to the host organization, but equally important is a
willingness to learn some of the many things that Asia has to teach.
UW's recent Luce Scholars:
·
2013 UW graduate Genevieve Gebhart was selected in
2013 and spent 2013-14 in Laos as a Luce Scholar. Read the UAA article
and Q&A with Gennie at
http://www.washington.edu/uaa/2013/03/15/honors-student-genevieve-gebhart-selected-for-luce-scholarship/.
