Student Opportunities

 

Upcoming Application Deadlines

First Year Fellowship Application Deadline -
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
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Rockefeller Leadership Fellows Application Deadline -
Friday, April 4, 2008
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Summer 2008 Internship Grants -
Thursday, May 1, 2008
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Summer 2008 Civic Skills Training Applications
Thursday, May 1, 2008
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Discussion Leader Application Deadline -
Thursday, May 8, 2008
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Student Assistant Application Deadline -
Thursday, May 8, 2008
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Senior Honors Thesis Grants Deadline -
Friday, May 30, 2008
For more information click here.

Dartmouth students can take advantage of numerous programs that the Rockefeller Center offers, including:



Public Policy Minor

The Public Policy Minor provides a variety of perspectives on policy questions, such as how policy is defined and affected by changes in values, institutions, technology or markets. In choosing courses for the minor, students identify a policy track, customizing the focus of the minor. Possible policy tracks include: environment, law, education, health, identity, urban issues, or a policy track of the students' own design. Click here for more information.

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Dartmouth-Oxford Exchange

The Dartmouth/Oxford Exchange Program provides an opportunity for up to four (4) Dartmouth undergraduates per term (fall, winter, and spring) to enroll in Oxford's Keble College. As fully-integrated members of the Oxford community, students live on campus, participate in co-curricular and social activities, and take pre-approved political economy courses in the British tutorial system that count toward their major. More information can be found here.

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Funding Opportunities

Dartmouth undergraduates have access to a variety of Rockefeller Center grants. We can help defray expenses associated with an unpaid leave-term public affairs internship or public policy research project. We can also provide up to 50% of the cost of a public affairs program for college-recognized student organizations. Check it out!

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First-Year Initiative

The Rockefeller Center has launched a program to engage first-year students in public policy. Students who complete the introductory policy-making course and a research methods course will be eligible for selective internships in Washington, DC, during the summer following their first year on campus. The Rockefeller Center will provide a special training as well as funding for these interns. We believe these students will become core members of the Rocky community on campus and future leaders in the public realm after they leave Dartmouth. Find more information about the First-Year Initiative here.

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Civic Skills Training

This training provides students with the information and skills they need to excel in their internships and beyond. An expense-paid, 5-day intensive workshop designed specifically for students entering internships in the public sector, Civic Skills Training takes place in Washington, DC, and capitalizes on the wealth of resources available in our nation's capital. Students learn about organizational networks, power structures, resource mobilization, public speaking, project management, and much, much more!

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Policy Research Shop

The Policy Research Shop aims to give students an inside perspective on the policy-making process by providing them opportunities to research topics critical to the legislatures of New Hampshire and Vermont. Each term students are selected and guided by a Research Associate on the focus, direction, development, and analysis of professional public policy research on issues confronting the two legislatures. In-depth research during the fall term is followed by response research while the legislatures are in session during the winter and spring. For more information on the Policy Research Shop, click on this link.

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Leadership Development Opportunities

  • Rocky Leadership Fellows

    The Rocky Leadership Fellows (RLF) program is designed to prepare Dartmouth students for leadership roles in their communities and in their careers. For selected seniors, RLF helps students make connections between their own unique experiences and the complexities of leadership issues in today's global society.

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    Senior Honors Thesis Grants

    ATTENTION '09s! Are you going to be writing a senior honors thesis in the social sciences? If so, you may be eligible for the NEW Rockefeller Center Senior Honors Grants Program. Click here for more information.

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    Student Publications

    • The Dartmouth Law Journal


      Dartmouth Law Journal Editors at the 2006 Fall Issue Book Celebration

      Front row (left to right):
      Brian Recht '10, Femi Omotunde '09, Samantha Wu, '07, Christopher Green '10, Alexandra Agius '09

      Back row (left to right):
      Michael Herman '07, Ursula Grisham '08, Charles Flynn '08, Andrew Fletcher '07


      Launched in the winter of 2003 by two Daniel Webster Legal Society Interns, Meg Thering '05 and Joshua Marcuse '04, The Dartmouth Journal of Law provides undergraduate students with a public forum for law-related ideas and discussion. In addition to publishing top undergraduate scholarship, the Journal provides its contributors with a collaborative editorial process designed to help improve and refine their work.

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    Internships and Career Opportunities

    Students can gain information about possible internships and career opportunities at the Center by engaging with distinguished visitors from the public sector, finding out about past Rocky interns and alumni, and speaking to our staff. Guest speakers at the Rockefeller Center often spend more than a day on campus, visiting classes and interacting informally over lunch or dinner discussions. Rockefeller Center Board members and Alumni are proud of the Center and are willing to serve as mentors for undergraduates. Click here to discover more resources for finding a good internship and making valuable connections for your career. Click here to browse Rocky's career resources.

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    Student Discussion Groups

    The Rockefeller Center educates Dartmouth students for an increasingly pluralistic and interdependent global society. Rocky organizations and discussion groups offer students engaging conversation; access to distinguished scholars, policymakers and political figures; and a lively way to stay engaged in world events.


    Discussion Leaders and Administrative Interns Academic Year 2007-2008

    Front row (left to right):
    Evan Meyerson '08, Owen Zidar '08, Ying Cheng '09, Nichole Davis '10, Lucy Pollard '10, Genevieve Parshalle '08

    Middle row (left to right):
    Kathy Oprea '10, Nikolina Kalkanova '09, Dustin McMahon '08, Mike Coburn '10, Adam Halpern-Leistner '10, Ned Kenney '10

    Back row (left to right):
    Jake Baron '10, Vanessa Szalapski '10, Neal Sarkar '07, Scot Parsley '09

    Discussion Leaders not in the photo:
    Lense Gebre-Mariam '09, Cary Lou '08, Jake Baron '10, Michelle Chan '10