Ctr for Advising & Career Srvs

AECOM is a for-profit employer providing language-enabled services for the US Government. Join Director Katie Averill as she discusses how AECOM’s programs provide personnel who use their language skills, available tools, knowledge of countries, regions, and/or topics to exploit a broad spectrum of open sources, collect information, and monitor those foreign sources to create products that meet the needs of their customers. Career opportunities for students across all programs!

Peter I. Belk currently serves as the Director for Chemical and Biological Security Policy, Office of Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism and Threat Reduction, Nonproliferation Directorate, National Security Council. In this capacity, Mr. Belk plans, directs and coordinates the development of polices relating to state and non-state actor chemical and biological weapons and threats, weapons of mass destruction terrorism, the Biological Weapons Convention and the Chemical Weapons Convention. Read more about Mr. Belk in his bio here: http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/belkp/

This session is designed to help T&I students prepare for the 2/19 Career Fair. Topics and speakers are: 1. Make your professional online presence stand out. (Evelyn Helminen, DLC, MIIS) 2. Methodology of matching your goals with the employers you target at the Career Fair (Winnie Heh) 3. Impress employers with your personal professional presence (Winnie Heh)

This is a make-up session designed to help T, TI, & CI students prepare for the 2/19 Career Fair.

Learn more about the application process for the California Sea Grant Fellowship from the program’s Research and Fellowship Coordinator, Miho Umezawa. MIIS students and alumni have a track record of consistently receiving this prestigious Fellowship.

Join Cadence Founders, Phil Kohn and Jonathan Rechtman, as they discuss the global growth trend in interpreting for the financial and investment sector and what is required for you to take advantage of these interpreting assignments.

The event ends at 1:45 pm instead of 1:50 pm. Two veterans of the Olympic Games come on campus to meet with the selected volunteer interpreters. Maureen Sweeney, IOC Expert Advisor for Venue Protocol and Language Services Bill Weber, Consultant with the IOC for interpretation services and chief interpreter at 14 Olympic Games, summer and winter

Boren Fellowships, an initiative of the National Security Education Program, provide unique funding opportunities for U.S. graduate students to study less commonly taught languages in world regions critical to U.S. interests, and underrepresented in study abroad, including Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Boren Fellows represent a vital pool of highly motivated individuals who wish to work in the federal national security arena.

Boren Fellowships, an initiative of the National Security Education Program, provide unique funding opportunities for U.S. graduate students to study less commonly taught languages in world regions critical to U.S. interests, and underrepresented in study abroad, including Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Boren Fellows represent a vital pool of highly motivated individuals who wish to work in the federal national security arena.