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looks over Budapest at twilight<span style="color:black">. He was there to research his dissertation topic, "Outrage, Disgust, and Derailed Democracy in Hungary.</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#9C0000">Mershon Center offers grants, scholarships for faculty, students</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#9E0B0F"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Applications for
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Research and Seed Grants</span></a></span></strong> and <strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001-lVLKJ261qVUcF4Xtditkkmuqk94UWNTk8g7Ww0gjMWE19COE9sU_UubvlTo5EW_8kjAD6iBLl7RqfrcLTe4GN2cduFgki7obxavET7b28lsoPQhvMO3Ra4biBkiaLnYDEnnfzYac6j_iGxeoMsuBONlf4WiuXUxoeSPK6yzkfZ75WHUWYFxULVNzM3fwMlH-j07jFYmRBtzl0u87AYodyAGaN4ymVYaMXRD8KaULTL7urRhDaSmbw==&c=uWYcotwV7dcNH2Lm8zMwTlGUKye__b08-Ud4m9lv-TKAoQVtxkk60A==&ch=cwgwSqgxUArSqxG_fSFdHWhl8eo2q-M-tGXOFzigwNVgJJxVPKi0Pw==" target="_blank"><span style="color:#9C0000">Graduate
Student Research Grants</span></a></span></strong></span><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">must be for projects related to the study of national security in a global context. We are also interested in projects that emphasize the role of peace-building and
development; strengthen the global gateways in China, India and Brazil; relate to campus area studies centers and institutes; or address the university's Discovery Themes of health and wellness, energy and the environment, and food production and security.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">In recent years the center has funded several dozen faculty and graduate student research projects with grants for travel, seminars, conferences, interviews, experiments,
surveys, library costs, and more. To learn about the types of projects being funded, please see faculty project summaries on the Mershon Center website under
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<span style="color:#9C0000">Research</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">and graduate project summaries in past
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<span style="color:#9C0000">Annual Reports</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Mershon Center has also established
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Security Scholarships for Undergraduate Theses and Study Abroad</span></a></span></strong></span><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">to support undergraduates whose professional career plans lie in the field of international security and who would benefit doing research for an undergraduate thesis
or studying in a foreign country. Applications will be evaluated by an interdisciplinary review committee that will make recommendations to the director of the Mershon Center. Scholarship amounts typically range from $2,000 to $3,000.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The deadline for all applications is
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">5 p.m. on Monday, February 22, 2016</span></strong>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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