Dear current, former, and incoming EPD students! 

We hope you're staying well and healthy and are enjoying the beautiful sunny days. As promised, we're sending you our first issue of our summer newsletter. We hope you find it useful and informative.  

This Newsletter Includes: 

• Welcome to our Incoming EPD Concentrators - SIPA Class of 2022
• Congratulations to Campbell Award Winner Peter Zheng 
• Congratulations to Capstone Award winners  
• OCS Job Strategy Discussion Groups 
• Summer OCS Resources 
• ISSO Information 
• Fellowship Opportunity: Cora Weiss Fellowship for Young Women Peacebuilders 
• Virtual Summer Internship Opportunity: República.org
• Upcoming Job and Internship Deadlines
• Upcoming Free EPD-Related Webinars 
• Faculty Spotlight: Eric Verhoogen 
• EPD Summer Office Hours

Welcome to our Incoming EPD Concentrators!
We want to welcome the incoming SIPA Class of 2022! Congratulations on your admission and we look forward to getting to know you over the course of the summer. Over the summer, the EPD team will be organizing several online sessions that we hope you can join. The sessions will give you the opportunity to connect with the concentration, learn more about what we do, get to know some of our core faculty, and engage with our current students and alumni. You will also have a chance to start getting to know one another.

Congratulations to Capstone Award Winners! 
Congratulations to the EPD workshop team working this year with the agribusiness, Babban Gona Farmer Services in Nigeria.  The team received the Isaac Anderson Rauch Award for excellence in a capstone project.  The team includes Simeon Abel, Walker Higgins, Qendresa Krasniqi, Dohun Na, Aparna Priyadarshi, Urmi Ramchandani and Pranav Singh.  The team's faculty advisor is Prof. Ragini Dalal, a SIPA/EPD alumna.

OCS Job Strategy Discussion Groups 
Over the summer, OCS will be holding Job Strategy Discussion Groups for current students and recent graduates. These sessions will be led by OCS’s Meg Heenehan and Pat Macken and will be concentration-specific. The groups are designed as a guided approach to search and a forum for sharing information, tools and resources. Participants are requested to contribute to the ongoing discussion of search-related goals and progress in reaching them. A variety of perspectives will be provided by career advisers, coaches, alumni, concentration professionals and employers.

Below is the information for the EPD kickoff discussion group. We hope you will join and share job searching tips with your fellow classmates. More information on these sessions can be found on SIPALink. 

EPD Kickoff Session: Thursday, June 4th at 11:00 am ET 
HTTPS://COLUMBIAUNIVERSITY.ZOOM.US/J/92880456005?PWD=ZZBBVFY3CMPBMFDIWEHNCNBLKYS0ZZ09 

Meeting ID: 928 8045 6005
Password: 280585

Summer OCS Resources  
OCS is working diligently this summer to provide resources to all students. Please see below for more information on important OCS resources that you can take advantage of to accelerate your internship or job search or to help with interviews, networking, and finding alumni contacts. 

OCS Virtual Office Hours: 
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 10-11am EST
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 990 6200 1305
Password: 195025

Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3-4pm EST
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 922 1262 1970
Password: 960599

OCS Quick Links: 
Big Interview - Virtual interview practice
Online Subscriptions and Databases
SIPA Alumni and Student Network on LinkedIn
VMock - AI resume review tool
"Look Who's Hiring" - Interactive job posting report 
 
Recordings of Previous OCS events:
Career Workshops and Webinars
Employer Information Sessions

ISSO Information 
For our international students, the Columbia International Students and Scholars Office provides information and assistance about relevant visa and travel information. The ISSO’s website is https://isso.columbia.edu/. 

Among others, ISSO offers the following help and services: 

ISSO’s Covid Hub can be found here: https://isso.columbia.edu/content/covid-19-hub. 

Fellowship Opportunity: Cora Weiss Fellowship for Young Women Peacebuilders 
The Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP) is pleased to announce its fifth annual Cora Weiss Fellowship for Young Women Peacebuilders. Launched in 2015, the Fellowship aims to support the development of young women peacebuilders and ensure that more young people share Cora’s vision for sustainable peace and gender equality as strong and integral parts of our global culture. The Fellowship provides a young woman with the opportunities and platforms to elevate the concerns and priorities of women and girls in their country in global policy discussions at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.

The Fellowship year will commence in October 2020 and end in October 2021. GNWP will cover roundtrip airfare from the country of origin to New York and health insurance. It will also provide the Fellow with a stipend to cover room and board, local transportation, and other personal expenses for one year.

The deadline to apply is July 15, 2020. 

For more information and to access the application, click here: https://gnwp.org/wp-content/uploads/Cora-Weiss-Fellowship-Announcement-May-18-2020.pdf

Virtual Summer Internship Opportunity: República.org
Eloy H. S. Oliveira, a SIPA/EPD alumnus, reached out to EPD to inform students about República.org’s virtual summer internship positions. República.org was previously an EPD workshop client. 

República.org works to improve the people management of public service in Brazil. In almost four years of operation, they have already invested and supported more than 100 projects, mainly in Rio de Janeiro, focusing on training, recognition and building networks of people working in the public service. 

Portuguese language skills are not required. 

To access the application, click here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZth16QYKiFJe_eLlDx7wHNKDbFHuMCoxZ98YmZdPDFOtCSw/viewform

• May 29 - Human Rights Foundation | Legal and Policy Intern (26630537)
• May 29 - The International Legal Foundation | Social Media and Communications Summer Internship (26630433) | Communications and Development Summer Internship (26628177)
• May 29 - United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) | Roster Data Analyst Consultant (26630585)
• May 30 - World Forum Offshore Wind e.V. | Summer Offshore Wind Analyst (Internship) (26623276)
• May 31 at 11:59pm CET - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | NATO Young Professionals Programme (YPP) (26626862)
• May 31 - Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development | Center for Climate Integrity: State Campaigns Consultant (26632188)
• May 31 - Rocky Mountain Institute | Administrative Assistant / Office Manager - Building Electrification (26628167) | Building Electrification Program Marketing Lead (26628166) | Associates - Building Electrification (26628165)
• May 31 - Youth Alliance for Leadership and Development in Africa | YALDA US Finance Intern (26630801)

This week's spotlight is Professor Eric Verhoogen, who teaches Advanced Economic Development at SIPA and is the Co-Director of the Center for Development Economic and Policy. 

His current research involves working with soccer ball producers in Pakistan. His first project was featured in this SIPA video and HBR article. Fun fact: His wife helped him come up with the technological innovation that is the subject of this Pakistan project! Read the HBR article for more on that! 

Professor Verhoogen’s new project involves experimentally varying the price of imported varieties of a key input, rexine (artificial leather), and seeing how firms respond. 

Professor Verhoogen will be teaching Advanced Economic Development (INAF U8145) in Spring 2021, which is one of the core economic development courses in the EPD curriculum. What differentiates the U8145 Advanced Economic Development from the lower level U6602 Economic Development, also taught in spring 2021, is that U8145:  

(1) Uses calculus and presents models in a fairly rigorous way
(2) Requires extensive Stata programming in empirical exercises 
(3) The pre-requisite for U8145 is a microeconomics course that has used calculus, or a generally strong math background and familiarity with calculus