{"id":8798,"date":"2013-12-05T15:14:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T20:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.cos.ucf.edu\/?p=8798"},"modified":"2016-12-20T15:21:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T20:21:33","slug":"apsa-fellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/apsa-fellows\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Students Selected as American Political Science Association Minority Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8799\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2013\/12\/Elias-Assaf-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Elias Assaf\" width=\"180\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2013\/12\/Elias-Assaf-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2013\/12\/Elias-Assaf-768x759.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2013\/12\/Elias-Assaf-299x296.jpg 299w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2013\/12\/Elias-Assaf.jpg 898w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8800 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2013\/12\/stu_Vargas_Briana.jpg\" alt=\"stu_Vargas_Briana\" width=\"140\" height=\"185\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Political Science Department congratulates Elias Assaf (left) and Briana Vargas-Gonzalez (right), who were selected as American Political Science Association Minority Fellows for the 2014-2015 academic\u00a0year.\u00a0 Elias and Briana are currently graduate students in the M.A. program in Political Science. The national award is highly competitive and carries with it a fellowship of $4,000 for their future studies in a Ph.D. program. Elias and Briana are two of twelve students selected nationwide for the fellowship with funding; additional unfunded fellowships are also awarded.<\/p>\n<p>Briana will complete the M.A. program at UCF during the summer term of 2014 and resume studies in a doctoral program in the fall semester 2014. Elias is also planning to join a doctoral program in fall 2014 and concentrate on the field of political psychology.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Political Science Department congratulates Elias Assaf (left) and Briana Vargas-Gonzalez (right), who were selected as American Political Science Association Minority Fellows for the 2014-2015 academic\u00a0year.\u00a0 Elias and Briana are currently graduate students in the M.A. program in Political Science. 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