Marymount Manhattan College Student Christophe Horita has been selected to receive a coveted Boren Scholarship for the coming academic year.

New York, N.Y. – After spending a year abroad, Marymount Manhattan student and Boren Scholar Alvin Young ’13 was selected for an internship with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations in New York City. CARICOM is a conglomerate of representatives from different Caribbean countries that work together to facilitate and promote economic integration, as well as the coordination of foreign policy.

New York, N.Y. – Marymount Manhattan international studies student Katelyn Sives ’13 was awarded a Boren Scholarship from the National Security Education Program (NSEP) and the Institute of International Education (IIE). She will receive $20,000 to study and research sustainable development in Brazil through the School of International Training (SIT). During the first six months of the 2012-2013 academic year, Sives will study in Fortaleza, where she will conduct research on agrarian reform in the state of Ceará. Following this, Sives will pursue research in the social dimensions of agro-ecological farming practices in the Amazonian city of Belem.