Dow Jones Newspaper Fund

The Dow Jones Newspaper Fund offers annual summer internships in business reporting, news, multimedia and sports copy editing. DJNF will select up to 100 interns nationally from college sophomores, juniors, seniors and graduate students. Each program provides free pre-internship seminars on college campuses and weekly salaries starting at $350 for at least 10 weeks. Interns who return to college full-time the following fall receive $1,000 scholarships. Students are assigned to media outlets based on their overall performance, DJNF internship test scores, and the needs or news organizations. Fund representatives will call finalists with internship offers in early December. Click on the application links at left to begin the process. The deadline is Nov. 2.

For further information please visit https://www.newspaperfund.org/PageText/Prg_HomePages.aspx?Page_ID=Prg_CollegeIntern

ThinkSwiss Research Scholarship

ThinkSwiss will select 15 talented and motivated U.S. students from all fields of study who apply for a research project at a Swiss university or research lab. The awardees will receive a monthly stipend of $700 for a period of up to three months.
The ThinkSwiss Research Scholarship program takes place within the scope of the ThinkSwiss program. “ThinkSwiss – Brainstorm the future” is a U.S.-wide program on Education, Research and Innovation. It focuses on the exchange of expertise and know–how in academia and the business community in both Switzerland and the USA. (www.thinkswiss.org) This program is produced under the auspices of Presence Switzerland (PRS), the Swiss State Secretariat for Education and Research (SER) and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.
Additional information about the 2008 ThinkSwiss Research Scholarship can be found on www.thinkswiss.org/news.html.