Senior Chandan Sapkota Selected for Carnegie Junior Fellows Program

March 13, 2009

The accomplishments keep coming for Dickinson College senior Chandan Sapkota.

Sapkota, an economics major from Nepal, has been selected to the prestigious Junior Fellows program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., where, beginning in August, he will serve for a year as a research assistant in the trade, equity and development field.

Sapkota will pursue a Ph.D. in economics in 2010, after he completes the Carnegie program. The full-time Junior Fellows position, which includes salary and benefits, matches participants with academics, former government officials, lawyers and journalists from around the world to work on a variety of international affairs issues. Each year, eight to 10 graduating seniors from colleges and universities nationwide and abroad are selected for the program.

Junior Fellows have the opportunity to conduct research for books, participate in meetings with high-level officials, contribute to congressional testimony and organize briefings attended by scholars, activists, journalists and government officials.

Last week Sapkota received the Outstanding Student Award from the central Pennsylvania chapter of the Financial Executives International (FEI). He will receive that award, along with a prize of $850, at a FEI Educator’s Night dinner March 24 at The Hershey Co. headquarters in Derry Twp. For more on Sapkota, visit his Web page.