ENVS Major Receives Breakthrough Fellowship

Congratulations to ENVS major Rachel Young on receiving a Summer 2010 fellowship from The Breakthrough Institute! Here is some information on this prestigious award:

“The Breakthrough Institute, a leading public policy think tank, is seeking up to
ten of the country’s top young analysts, writers, and thought leaders for a paid fellowship in Summer 2010 as part of its young leaders initiative, Breakthrough Generation. Fellowships are highly competitive – in 2009, 5 percent of applicants were accepted – and involve cutting-edge writing, research, and analysis on energy/climate and national security/counterterrorism issues. Breakthrough Fellows have published in the Harvard Law & Policy Review, San Francisco Chronicle, Baltimore Sun, and the Huffington Post, and their projects have been cited in the New York Times, Newsweek, Time Magazine, the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal, among others.”

You can learn more about the Institute here.