<p>US-Ireland</a> Alliance | Scholarships</p>
<p>The Mitchell Scholarship was named in honor of former U.S. Senator George Mitchell and is designed to introduce and connect generations of future American leaders to the island of Ireland, while recognizing and fostering intellectual achievement, leadership, and a commitment to public service and community. The Scholars receive sufficient funds to cover one year of postgraduate study in any Irish university. The program is now ten years old.</p>
<p>This year, Princeton graduate Michael Solis was awarded the Scholarship.</p>
<p>Michael Solis is a Princeton in Latin America Fellow and Researcher, working for Human Rights Watch and the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences in Santiago, Chile. He is conducting research for both institutions on human rights, political discrimination in Venezuela, global security, arms control, and conflict resolution. Michael graduated from Princeton in 2008. Upon graduation, Michael was named a Luce Scholar and worked for a year in South Korea for the National Human Rights Commission of Korea. While there he wrote extensively about human rights-based issues, such as former Korean sexual slaves, immigrant rights, and discrimination against those suffering from HIV/AIDS. His writing led him to be recruited by the UNAIDS International Task Team to investigate reported cases of HIV/AIDS discrimination. Michael co-founded and runs the Hmong Action Network, which is dedicated to halting the repatriation of the Laotian Hmong from Thai encampments. He has participated in a number of projects to bring educational and medical services to impoverished communities in Mexico. Michael is fluent in four languages. He will study international human rights law at NUI Galway.</p>
<p>Over the last decade, 120 Mitchell Scholars have been named. Of those, ten have come from Georgetown, which is easily the leading institution. Other schools lag far behind. This year, the only Ivy League Schools to be represented were Yale, with two Scholars, and Princeton, with one.</p>
<p>Mitchell Scholars since Founding of Program</p>
<p>10---Georgetown</p>
<p>5----Harvard</p>
<p>4----Princeton, UVA, Yale</p>
<p>3----Duke, Furman, Grinnell, U. of Indiana, North Carolina State, Stanford, US Military Academy</p>
<p>For those who might be interested in applying for the fellowship, the brochure can be found here:</p>