2025-2026 Professional Development Funding

Description

The Clements Center awards funding to undergraduate and graduate students who secure unpaid internships in the fields of national security and foreign policy. Additionnally, funding is now available to those who will be partaking in vigorous language acquisition programs; more specifically, languages deemed critical by the US State Department. 

Awards will be granted to those students whose work best reflects the mission and goals of the Clements Center. Past recipients have interned with the US Department of State, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the United Nations, the Institute for the Study of War, and the American Enterprise Institute. 

Qualifications

Must be a current full-time UT student who secures an in-person, unpaid internship in the field of national security or foreign policy. Alternatively, the student may have been accepted into a critical language program focused on acquisition. Make sure that your internship description includes the semester/dates of your internship.

Application Instructions

Please complete the application and submit a copy of your resume, a one-page internship description in your own words detailing how your portfolio includes work within the three security pillars (diplomacy, defense, and intelligence), and an estimated budget (including transportation, housing, food, local transport, and other living expenses). If you have applied for and/or received funding from another source, you must include those details in your estimated budget. 

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