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RISE Party Claims ASUU Executive Branch Uncontested

Between March 12 and March 15, students elected the RISE Party to be the new administration of the Associated Students of the University of Utah (ASUU).

Approximately 1,626 students cast their ballots — approximately 5 percent of the student body. The College of Law had the highest voter turnout with 23 percent of students voting for representatives.

Voter turnout was less than half of what it was last year — presumably because only one party was running for executive positions.

As part of the RISE Party, biology and political science student Connor Morgan is president, human development student Maggie Gardner is vice president of university relations and chemical engineering student Xandra Pryor is vice president of campus relations.

“When Maggie, Xandra and I united in this fall, we all quickly came to the understanding that the U is an amazing place to go to school, but we recognized that it certainly isn’t a perfect place, either,” Morgan said. “Our platforms target what we have identified — with the assistance of University reports, officials, ASUU leaders, and fellow students — as some of the biggest problems that students face.”

RISE’s platform centered around student safety, transparency and on-campus activities.

Along with a new executive branch, ASUU gained nine Senate members and 19 Assembly members.

“Everyone who ran for assembly and senate positions ran great campaigns and we hope that they participate in ASUU even if they didn’t win,” said Damon Ngo, a first-time candidate who was elected as an assembly member for the Business College. “Running a campaign was a really fun experience and really allowed me to meet a lot of fun and very supportive people. I can’t wait to serve each and every student on this campus, specifically those in the David Eccles School of Business. I look forward to working with all those who were also elected on improving our community.”

The RISE Party will replace current President Zach Berger, Vice President of University Relations Zoe Kozlowski and Vice President of Student Relations Saeed Shihab following an inauguration on April 25.

“Our administration’s overarching priority for next year is to remind ASUU, as an organization, that its fundamental purpose is to serve students,” Morgan said. “Every student leader in ASUU, too, has a responsibility to advocate for student interests, from the president to board members to Assembly representatives. We hope to instill this culture of advocacy, and we hope that it remains a mainstay for years to come.”

ASUU SENATE

College of Business

Howie Huynh

College of Dentistry

Emily Thomas

College of Education

Valerie Guerrero

College of Engineering

Haley Feten

College of Fine Arts

Kaelin Kaczka

College of Humanities

Lizzy Pohl

College of Law

Claire McGuire

College of Science

Kaitlin McLean

College of Social and Behavioral Science

Lilly Kanishka

 

ASUU ASSEMBLY

College of Business

Damon Ngo

Victoria Ferguson

College of Engineering

Erin Morgan

Riley Weaver

Mitchell Kirkham

Adrian Porras

Gregory Boisvert

College of Fine Arts

Amy Cox

College of Humanities

Fran Botto

Christine Farley

College of Law

Ben Lehnardt

College of Pharmacy

Michael Stapley

College of Science

Erika Feten

Michael Xiao

Kasra Rahmati

College of Social and Behavioral Science

Sajdah Arbeed

Jess Spohn

Oliva Mauchley

Anna Marie Barnes

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Police Respond to Suspicious Package in Woodruff Memorial Building

The area behind the Alumni Memorial University Center (AMUC) is closed. Alisha Compton/Managing Editor

This story will be updated as the Wheel receives more information.

Emory Police Department and Atlanta Police Department’s bomb squad responded to a suspicious package in the mailroom of the Woodruff Memorial Building on Monday morning, according to Associate Director of University Media Relations Elaine Justice.

The mailroom was evacuated, according to Justice. EPD Lt. L. H. Vaughn said that EPD cannot comment due to the ongoing “working incident.”

Police blocked off area between the Alumni University Memorial Center (AMUC) and the Woodruff Memorial Building, parts of Means Drive.

A 9:21 a.m. text message to students, faculty and staff advised them to avoid the area near the building.

Valerie Sandoval contributed reporting.

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Bizarre insects face off in March Bug Madness

Bugs can’t play basketball but nature sure makes them weird.

Escape the busted brackets and basketball mayhem, and vote for your favorite bizarre bug on Texas Science’s Instagram story now through March 29.

March Bug Madness is a bracket-style tournament that faces off insects in a bid to find the strangest. Users can select which insect they decide is ‘weirder’ out of a pair of bugs in a series of single-elimination rounds that narrow contestants until only one remains.

Colorful, high-quality images come from the UT-Austin Biodiversity Center’s very own Insects Unlocked catalog. The photos mark an effort to photograph the vast collection and make the images free for public use.

The detailed photos appear on the page along with descriptions of each insect’s outlandish traits, off of which people can make their decisions. The bugs’ traits range from producing sounds over 100 decibels to packing a painful bite with unassuming pinsors, and the grand winner is crowned as most bizarre out of the starting sixteen species.

This bizarre bug tournament is the brainchild of Marc Airhart, a coordinator in the College of Natural Science’s, CNS, communications office.

“(The images) are other-wordly,” Airhart said. “They come in every color of the rainbow.”

Marc works with a team of graphic designers, photographers, writers and videographers who publish content for CNS. The team creates research announcements, posters, logos and flyers for various events and organizations. They also collaborate on multimedia projects like this competition.

The team enjoys a break from normal projects to focus on special efforts that target public engagement, Airhart said.

At a huge research institution like UT, there’s a lot of activity that the public does not see.

“If you walk around on campus there’s a lot of stuff that’s hidden,” Airhart said. “It’s hard to know this building has one of the world’s most powerful lasers, or at another spot some great discovery was made decades ago. We want to try and tell the story of research at UT in that way and reveal to people what’s hidden right in front of them.”

Collections of insects hide in research labs. Researchers often lack the tools to share such vast storages of knowledge with the public, which is where the communications office comes in.

“(The team) is making this hidden collection that the public doesn’t interact with — millions of bugs in little drawers in a field lab off campus — accessible and interesting,” Airhart said.

Graphic designer Jenna Luecke created the visual elements for March Bug Madness, including its lively logo and clever NCAA-reminiscent bracket. Luecke said it is an outside perspective as an artist that helps her distill information in a way that’s accessible to non-scientists in a public audience.

One of the unique challenges of Luecke’s position is taking the time to ensure that enough information is there to get the point across but not so much that it scares away social media goers.

In all, the project joins a larger trend the communications office hopes to continue and create more interactive pieces that communicate science.

March Bug Madness features new competitors every day at 9 a.m. on the Texas Science Instagram story where users can enter votes for 24 hours until voting closes. The winner will be announced on March 30 at 9 a.m.

Browse the rest of the bug collection on the Insects Unlocked online gallery.

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Grad students research adhesion

In the field of engineering, there are several forces that scientists have to deal with when building structures or creating devices. One such force, adhesion— the attraction between two surfaces that can lead them to stick together — is particularly important on the microscale level. Because surfaces can be extremely small, engineers are often faced with the issue of these surfaces unintentionally adhering to one another. To try to alleviate this adhesion problem, University researchers conducted experiments to measure the work of adhesion, which is essentially the amount of energy required to separate a unit area of two surfaces stuck together.

When an object is next to a surface, forces act between this object and the surface, said Joyce Mok GS, who is studying solid mechanics in the School of Engineering. But if this object is large enough, gravity overpowers these other forces. “When you get to the point where (the object) is so small, however, this force of gravity is not going to matter as much… and (the other forces) do start to matter. And so that same principle is the reason why adhesion … is such a big issue for (microelectromechanical devices).”

Microelectromechanical systems are essentially systems consisting of microscaled, moving devices, Mok said. “You can use it in a lot of different fields,” she added, listing biology research and electronics as examples. Because many of these devices are so small, they require surfaces that are close together for efficient operation. “But then naturally, of course, this makes the problem (of adhesion) bigger,” she added.

The most common method that has been used to measure the work of adhesion involves the use of a microbeam, an extremely narrow beam of radiation, and its tendency to stick to a surface when placed near it. “Previous research related the work of adhesion for an adhered microbeam to the beam’s unadhered length, and as such, interferometric techniques were developed to measure that length,” wrote Mok and Wenqiang Fang GS, who is also studying solid mechanics, in a jointly-written article.

But directly finding that critical length at which the beam sticks to the surface is not easy, Mok said. What could be easier is using the natural frequency property of the beam, which would help determine this critical length and ultimately relate to the work of adhesion.

“Every structure has a frequency that it vibrates at when it’s resting,” Mok said. Finding that frequency can be done by shining a laser at one point on the structure with something like an atomic force microscope, she added.

In a standard AFM system, a microbeam with a sharp needle tip moves across a surface, and a laser within that beam measures its small movements. The beam’s movements across the surface could then be used to determine the surface’s properties.

Mok and Fang modified this system by removing the needle tip of the beam. Instead, the microbeam is now lowered onto the test surface and then raised back up to result in part of it becoming stuck to the surface. The remaining unstuck portion slightly vibrates. By measuring the vibration, scientists are able to find the work of adhesion more easily.

“The main advantage of our technique is that it is simpler to implement than the old methods,” Fang said. With older techniques based in interferometry, a large number of different samples are needed to gather many data points, which the new technique does not require. Their vibration-based technique is also “known to have high sensitivity and repeatability and is easy to use on a MEMS chip,” he added.

Determining a material’s work of adhesion has large implications in the field of MEMS, Fang said. “This new capability … will help alleviate the stiction failure of MEMS devices, (ultimately aiding) in the development of the MEMS field.” Development of more reliable microdevices, such as accelerometers and gyroscopes, “will improve our lives in many different ways,” he added.

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Vegas overcomes erratic play to halve match with Harman

Jhonattan Vegas started his first match of the World Golf Championships Dell Technologies Match Play just the way he wanted to — with an opening birdie and a 1-up lead over Brian Harman.

But Vegas, a former Longhorn, bogeyed the second to send the match to all square. Up and down defined Vegas’ round all afternoon on Wednesday at Austin Country Club. He drained a 30-foot birdie putt on the fifth to regain a 1-up advantage, only to lose the following hole when Harman birdied the par-5 sixth.

Vegas had a five-foot putt for par on the seventh hole to keep the match at all square. He burned it by on the edge, giving Harman the lead for the first time all day. The lefty kept a 1-up advantage over Vegas for much of the remaining round.

After his 30-footer dropped on the fifth, Vegas made just one putt over 10 feet over his next 12 holes. Sandwiched between Rory McIlroy and Phil Mickelson, who were playing in front of and behind him, respectively, Vegas didn’t draw much of a gallery early on.

But even though he missed a plethora of putts for birdie, Vegas managed to keep Harman within reach on the back nine. Each missed opportunity heightened the tension surrounding the match as more and more fans flocked to the scene.

“Hey Jhonny, Hook ‘em, Horns!” one fan shouted from a hospitality tent behind the 14th green. Vegas, still 1 down at the time, stuffed his approach shot from 186 yards and left himself 9.5 feet for birdie. Unsurprisingly, he missed, and his frustration mounted.

“It was a little bit of a strain because I couldn’t make one,” Vegas said.

He had chances for birdies on the 16th and 17th holes, but he missed both of those, too. He walked to the 18th tee still only 1 down. Harman laid up, but Vegas brought out his driver. He bombed his drive down the hill, just 49 yards short of the pin.

Harman’s approach settled just over 20 feet from the hole. Vegas threw a low pitch shot inside of that to just under 10 feet. Harman missed, giving Vegas a chance tie it up and halve the match. By now, a decent gallery had gathered around the 18th green, many of whom sported various types of burnt orange attire. Some shouted “C’mon, Jhonny!” Others watched in nervous silence as he lined up his putt.

Buckets.

Vegas missed plenty of putts on the day, but he buried the most important one. His birdie at 18 earned him a crucial half point in the group standings. Without increasing fan support, though, the match might have ended differently.

“I would say that the fans definitely kind of pulled me through at the end there,” Vegas said. “Just playing here, a place that I’m really familiar with where I have a lot of friends, just getting the support is obviously important. Hopefully we can keep it going.”

Given his struggles throughout the round, Vegas said he was pleased to walk off the course on day one without a loss.

“The way we played, I think we’re both OK with a half,” Vegas said.

“Every point here just counts,” he added. “You’ve got to give yourself the best chance.”

With the match play format, the Texas product has just that — another chance. He tees off at 12:04 p.m. on Thursday to battle McIlroy, who lost 2 and 1 to Peter Uihlein on Wednesday. Uihlein leads the group with a full point, half a point ahead of Vegas and Harman.

A win for Vegas would bring him one step closer to advancing to the weekend and would eliminate McIlroy, who surged into the top 10 in the Official World Golf Rankings with his win last week at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

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Elections Board Allows Undeclared SGA Presidential Candidate to Run

The Elections Board upheld SGA Chief of Staff Mario Karras’ (17Ox, 19B) candidacy for Student Government Association (SGA) president in a 6-0 decision after he failed to declare his candidacy by the deadline, according to Chair of the Elections Board Betty Zhang (20C).

The deadline to declare candidacy in the Spring 2018 elections was March 18 at 11:59 p.m., but Zhang told the Wheel on Monday that she had not received Karras’ declaration through the designated Google form by then. Zhang brought Karras’ case to the Elections Board for review on March 19 after another SGA presidential candidate inquired if Karras was running.

“Mario’s passion and dedication can be seen through his effort in having made all campaign materials, including a comprehensive website, prior to this complication,” Zhang wrote in a March 20 email to the Wheel. “Due to Mario’s previous experience as SGA Chief of Staff, we believe that this mistake does not disqualify him from deserving the chance to become president.”

Karras said that he was in Egypt when he completed the declaration form, but the form may not have submitted properly due to his “spotty” internet connection.

“I sent her an email with my Emory NetID … and I also filled out the Google form,” Karras said. “But I guess the Wi-Fi was a little spotty in Egypt, so I guess my Google form didn’t go through.”

Although the Elections Board did not have evidence of Karras’ submission, it decided that “technical issues related to Wi-Fi crash is not an invalid reason [for allowing Karras to run],” Zhang said.

Karras had submitted campaign materials to Zhang for approval prior to the declaration deadline, Zhang said.

“I gave my approval without knowing that he did not submit the declaration,” Zhang wrote in a March 19 email to the Wheel.

A candidate must register his or her campaign with the Elections Board, according to Part 4, Article 2 of the University elections code. The Elections Board determines the date and times of candidate registration, the code states.

Fellow SGA presidential candidate Dwight Ma (17Ox, 19C) said that he thought the board’s decision was unfair. Zhang had written in emails to the candidates that late submissions on the declaration form would not be accepted.

“The Elections Board already said that they wouldn’t give an exception,” Ma said. “I think the Elections Board still made a special case for him … He [Karras] can’t say he declared. There’s no way for him to get proof.”

In addition to Karras and Ma, Sanim Choudhury (19C) and Elias Neibart (20C) declared candidacy for SGA president. Neibart declined to comment, and Choudhury did not respond by publication time.

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New cameras catch speeding violations

Providence drivers have paid over $735,000 for traffic violations since the City installed five portable camera units around school zones Jan. 16, according to Billy Kepner, press secretary for the Providence City Council. The amount paid to the City from the over 16,600 violations already exceeds the projected net revenue of $500,000 for the camera units for fiscal year 2018, Victor Morente, press secretary for the Mayor’s Office, said.

Each camera is installed within a quarter mile of a school, and vehicles traveling more than 10 miles per hour over the speed limit automatically receive violations, according to a City press release. Fifteen cameras will eventually be installed. Violations are reviewed by both the Providence Police Department and Conduent, a private company which operates and manages the cameras.

An additional six cameras were activated March 5, Morente said. After two weeks of facing only warnings for speeding in those locations, speeding drivers are now receiving violations, he added.

All camera violations result in $95 fines to the owner of the vehicle, Morente said. Signs are posted in each location to warn drivers that the cameras are in place, he added.

State Rep. Bob Craven, D-North Kingstown, originally introduced the legislation requiring speed cameras within a quarter mile of schools. While the House voted overwhelmingly to pass the bill in 2016, Craven now has second thoughts about the heavy fines for initial violations, Craven wrote in an email to The Herald.

On March 14, Craven introduced a bill to amend the original law to only issue warnings for a first offense and a $50 fine for the second offense. After the third violation, drivers would begin to receive the $95 fine.

The thousands of tickets issued and hundreds of thousands of dollars the cameras have raised so far have proved exorbitant, Craven wrote.

Craven initially hoped that the bill would reduce traffic while lowering city costs by not requiring police officers on the scene, he wrote.

“Safety comes first, but safety can be achieved by using the cameras and better signage to create a ‘chilling effect’ on speeder’s behavior,” Craven added.

State Rep. Anthony Giarrusso, R-East Greenwich, introduced a bill to ban speed cameras from the state. Giarrusso said that the camera units are a “government cash grab” by the City, according to the Associated Press.

“I stand by my statement that this is more about revenue than school safety,” Giarrusso wrote in an email to The Herald.

“Look no further than … the dollar amount of the fine and that there is no penalty to the driver but only the registered owner of the vehicle,” Giarrusso wrote.

Giarrusso also noted a Conduent lobbyist’s “connection to the (Elorza) administration,” he wrote.

Elorza’s former chief of staff Tony Simon now serves as a “$5,000 a month lobbyist for Conduent at the Rhode Island State House,” GoLocalProv.com reported. Conduent earns $2,978 per month for each camera and $7.50 for every violation it processes, WPRI reported. However, the City has continued to stand by the value of the speed cameras in maintaining public safety.

“While the City remains committed to the cameras as a way to keep our kids safe, the City is open to reasonable changes to the state law,” Morente wrote in an email to The Herald.

Mayor Jorge Elorza and Public Safety Commissioner Stephen Paré initially lauded the program for its ability to protect school zones from reckless drivers.

“Ultimately this is about keeping families safe, especially in areas with many children around,” Elorza said in a press release announcing the cameras. “Tragedies can be prevented with innovative solutions and that’s exactly what these cameras do.”

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Herman discusses first day of spring football

All head coach Tom Herman had to do was blow his whistle. After Texas’ first day of spring football came to a conclusion, Herman spoke very highly of his team’s effort and energy level throughout the day — with one exception. 

“I think we called one young guy back, and there were a lot of older guys that weren’t happy with that young guy,” Herman said. “It put a smile on my face … and really, all I had to do was blow the whistle and say his name. The leaders of this group got on him pretty good. That’s how you know when you’re heading in the right direction.”

Aside from the praise Herman gave his team for the intensity of the practice, he still acknowledged that Tuesday afternoon was just that — the first day of spring practice. The Longhorns could be seen practicing in shorts, jerseys and helmets. No pads. 

“I mean, this isn’t football,” Herman said. “I still don’t know why we have to go out there and play without safety equipment. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me.”

Here’s what we learned after the pad-less first day of spring football: 

Herman impressed by new kids on the block 

Despite the obstacle of having to assess his team without pads, Herman was still able to say who impressed him after day one: freshmen quarterbacks Casey Thompson and Cameron Rising. 

“The two quarterbacks — the young quarterbacks,” Herman said. “They didn’t look out of place, which was good. Obviously they screwed their fair share of things up, but they looked like they belonged.”

Herman confirmed that junior quarterback Shane Buechele is, in fact, 100 percent healthy Monday afternoon. That means all four quarterbacks will have their shot at earning the starting job this spring and heading into the summer. But it wasn’t just the freshmen quarterbacks he was impressed with. 

“I would say all the young guys — all the newcomers. Again, somebody asked me yesterday — they exceeded expectations, and they did so as well today on the field.”

Playing without Poona

One of the biggest question marks heading into the spring is how defensive coordinator Todd Orlando will get his defense shaped up after losing leaders including Malik Jefferson, DeShon Elliott, Holton Hill and especially Poona Ford.

Herman didn’t shy away when asked about how much this defensive line will miss Ford, not just during game time but at practice throughout the entirety of the week.

“I would be doing Poona and his contribution to this program an injustice if I didn’t say we were concerned about replacing him,” Herman said. “That guy, as I told you numerous times last year, is probably one of the hardest practicing defensive lineman I’ve ever seen. Obviously it showed on game day. He’s a Big 12 defensive lineman of the year.”

Spring football questions 

With the first practice coming to an end, there wasn’t a plethora of additional information available from Herman’s presser on Monday afternoon. However, throughout the 15-minute media availability Tuesday afternoon, Herman spent more time than usual thinking about the answer to one question: What is your favorite board game?

Herman took a few moments to decide. 

“Trivial Pursuit,” Herman said. “I love board games. Can I say Candy Land, actually? I’m actually probably better at Candy Land.” 

As spring practice unfolds, look for both sides of the ball to fill in the gaps left from last year, for position battles to intensify and for Herman to have more non-board game questions to answer.

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COUNTERPOINT: Language that offends should not be grounds for expulsion

Shauli Bar-On | Daily Trojan

Rights exist primarily for one simple reason: to prevent wrongs. However, rights are not absolute — they must exist in a hierarchy because in many instances, rights collide with and contradict one other. The case of racist verbal expressions that provoke violence is one such example. Yes, these instigators have the right to free speech, but that right should be outweighed by the danger of infringing on others’ right to safety.

The same concept can be applied to the issue of bullying in school settings. The provoker has the constitutional right to speak freely, but it is in the greater interest of the school to discipline the provoker and restrict his speech to maintain the safety for the victim and the surrounding community. Private schools have larger leeway: Just last year, USC intervened when a street vendor sold shirts displaying a swastika within school premises because they did not comply with the University’s guidelines for vendors. A similar intervention would take place if a group of students gathered in a KKK or neo-Nazi club.

And yet, there is an argument to be made that a public school cannot expel a student merely for “highly offensive and deeply hurtful statements.” After all, this right to free speech is the crux of the First Amendment.

Differing from the standards of private institutions, public schools — which accept taxpayer money  — must comply with the First Amendment, which guarantees free speech in public institutions. Public universities seem to be held to a different standard than other federal institutions, though. While neo-Nazi groups and the KKK are allowed to assemble and meet around the country with limited governmental intervention, students have been expelled from public universities for making racial slurs. One of the most notable examples is a University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa student’s expulsion for posting a video of her using repeated racial slurs to a private Instagram account in January.

Effren Villanueva | Daily Trojan

The courts have ruled that free speech is “less free” in school settings, and that students shed some of their constitutional rights when they arrive at school gates. These rulings apply directly to grade and high schools, but federal courts have occasionally applied the same concept to college campuses in cases where speech causes a disruption to the educational process.

But it is difficult to make the argument that the mere recital of racial slurs on a private video automatically disrupts the educational process or instigates violence. There have been no reports of violence on the University of Alabama’s campus regarding this incident. The University of Alabama’s president, Stuart R. Bell, released a statement describing the student’s videos as “highly offensive and deeply hurtful.” He also said “the actions of this student do not represent the larger student body or the values of our University.” Bell is absolutely in the right in releasing this statement, and he has an obligation to address student conduct and clarify that the University does not condone the use of such slurs. The First Amendment may provide freedom of speech and expression but does not sweepingly guarantee a right to do so without reproach.

This is not at all to say that the student’s conduct should go unpunished socially. If such conduct comes to the attention of a school, the university should still release a statement calling out the student, explaining that her statements do not reflect those of the school. Professors should be allowed to refuse to write letters of recommendations for her, and students should be allowed to express their vehement disagreement with her words.

Of course, statements that outwardly advocate for violence against a particular group of people can almost certainly be concluded to instigate violence or cause a disturbance. But it is also clear that speech that merely offends a particular group cannot be restricted by the government or public institutions.

As such, personal and identity-based attacks — while they are ineffective policy points and utterly inefficient conversation drivers — are not always punishable by laws. They are, like all other kinds of conduct, always punishable in the court of public opinion. And the sentence in that courtroom may be just as — if not more — agonizing than one handed down by an old man in a robe.

Shauli Bar-On is a freshman majoring in political science. “Point/Counterpoint” runs Wednesdays.

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The inaugural Education New Zealand Journalism Fellowship launches

New Zealand Education

Applications for the Education New Zealand Journalism Fellowship open today.

The fellowship is a competitive scholarship aimed at talented US students or recent graduates with an interest in international education and global citizenship.

Three recipients will have the opportunity to travel to New Zealand for a week this June. Airfares, accommodation and meals will be paid for by Education New Zealand.

An independent report from the Economist Intelligence Unit recently ranked New Zealand’s education system as the best in the world for preparing students for the future.

All eight New Zealand universities are ranked in the top 2.5% of the world (QS World University Rankings 2018) and New Zealand has the seventh highest performing graduates in the world, ahead of graduates from many elite universities in the US, Canada and England (2016 OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies).

Education New Zealand’s Director of Education for North America, Amy Rutherford says this is an excellent opportunity for emerging US writers to gain international exposure.

“This is a unique opportunity for recipients to set themselves apart in an increasingly global and competitive market.
“We look forward to seeing the calibre of applicants and to working with recipients to tailor a program of interviews to reflect their particular research interests.”

Recipients will be required to write at least two news stories or one feature article following on from their New Zealand visit.

More information about the scholarship and how to apply is available on the Education New Zealand website.

Applications close Saturday 14 April at 5:00pm, Eastern Time.

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