About Across Borders
APPLICATIONS CLOSED FOR 2012:
“Across Borders: Managing Trans-Boundary Environmental Resources in the Middle East and the United States” is an international exchange program for Emerging Young Professionals (EYPs), sponsored by the US Department of State’s office of Citizen Exchanges, and delivered by Dickinson College and the cooperation of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
This highly selective, 4-week, fully funded, study-abroad program for citizens from Egypt, Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Territories (dual US citizens are ineligible) is designed to foster a substantive understanding of how environmental, economic, social and political factors converge to influence policy and practice in the management of trans-boundary environmental resources, with a particular focus on the Middle East and United States. Tentative dates for the summer 2012 U.S. cohort are July 1- July 28, 2012.
Middle East environment links via Diigo- Saudi investor to delay Sudan farm project over dollar curbs - Yahoo! News
- Technique Keeps Dust Off Solar Cells | LiveScience
- Daoud Kuttab: Nuclear Energy Debate Absent in Jordan
- Red Sea Port Authority discusses possible solutions for Al-Adabeya port ‘carcinogenic containers’ - Daily News Egypt
- Saudi Gazette - Water security in the Mideast
- The Scary Hidden Stressor - NYTimes.com
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Jordanian Infrastructure Development
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Northern Jordan Valley
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Dead Sea Environs
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Learning about desert agriculture
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Getting to know the valley
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Across Borders 2011 underway
Posted on June 29, 2011 | No Comments2011 Fellows arrive in the Middle East -
Call for Applications
Posted on November 3, 2010 | No CommentsApplications are no longer being accepted for summer 2011. Tentative dates for the summer 2011 U.S. cohort are June 26-July 25, 2011. -
Dickinson College Press Release
Posted on November 3, 2010 | No CommentsRead the complete press release about the Across Borders exchange program. -
Compass Article
Posted on November 2, 2010 | No CommentsThe Across Borders exchange program was recently featured in the Dickinson College Compass. Read Bill Sulon's article, "Troubled Waters", here. -
Grant Awarded
Posted on November 2, 2010 | No CommentsDickinson College has been awarded an unprecedented grant from the Department of State to form an international group of professionals who will study water-management issues in the US and Middle East.









