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Learn more about SFS graduate students' internships and the public, private and nonprofit sector opportunities they pursue after they earn their degrees.

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The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, founded in 1919, is a premier school of international affairs. At Georgetown University's Washington, D.C. and Qatar campuses, SFS provides a rigorous education combining theory and practice and instills the values of service.

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Video: School of Foreign Service Commencement 2013
webcastMay 18, 2013
President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskatiė asks graduates of the Walsh School of Foreign Service to embrace challenges and responsibility going forward in their careers during today’s commencement ceremony.
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Video: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Commencement 2013
videoMay 17, 2013
Eric Maskin, Adams University Professor of Economics at Harvard University and 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize winner in Economics, congratulated graduates at the 2013 commencement ceremony for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences today.
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2013 SFS-Q Graduates Honored in Education City

This week, 43 students of the School of Foreign Service Qatar campus were awarded diplomas in international politics, international economics and culture and politics at the Qatar National Convention Centre. HE Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah, Chairman of the Administrative Control and Transparency Authority, delivered the keynote addresss at the convocation ceremony.
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Roberto Dondisch (MSFS'01) Named to Post in Mexico's Foreign Affairs Ministry

He will oversee Mexico's foreign policy on the environment, climate change, development, health, drugs and human trafficking.
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University Reimagines Courses, Complementing Online Global Reach
May 2, 2013
Georgetown announces the funding of 23 new courses as part of the university’s Initiative on Technology-Enhanced Learning.
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Bill Clinton Gives First of Lecture Series at Georgetown
videoApril 30, 2013
Former President Bill Clinton (SFS’68) delivered his first talk as part of The Clinton Lectures at Georgetown in historic Gaston Hall, where he talked about the importance of service and people's stories.
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HBKU Prize Rewards Georgetown Students for Helping the Poor
May 7, 2013
Haroon Yasin, a freshman at SFS-Qatar, recently accepted the Hamad bin Khalifa University (HBKU) award for best service organization within HBKU on behalf of Akhuwat-e-Awam. Akhuwat-e-Awam is a student-created and student-run group that has successfully overseen the education of poor children in Pakistan through a wholly volunteer-led school.
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Berlinerblau Talks Secularism on Canadian TV
May 7, 2013
Jacques Berlinerblau -- director of the SFS Program for Jewish Civilization -- speaks with Steve Paikin about the professor's book 'How to Be Secular: A Call to Arms for Religious Freedom.'
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SFS Faculty News -- April 2013 Edition
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Successful Carroll Round in Hoya Spotlight
April 24, 2013
The annual undergraduate research conference, which focuses on international economics, is featured in the Georgetown student newspaper.
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Verveer Discusses Women in Post-Conflict Settings in Handshake Magazine
April 23, 2013
The executive director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS) is featured in the publication produced by the International Finance Corporation.
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Warren Ryan (MSFS'14) Wins Rosenthal Fellowship
April 22, 2013
The Fellowship provides graduate students the opportunity to spend a summer working on international relations related issues in the US government Executive Branch or the Congress. Click through to read the Rosenthal Fellowship/APSIA news release.
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