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New York, NY: Thursday, June 5, 2008 – Details of the Council’s Student Work
Experience Scholarships for 2008 were announced today and will be presented at a
luncheon meeting of the organization to be held at The Metropolitan Club in New
York City on Thursday, June 12, 2008. Council President Michael J. Gibbons, in releasing
details of this year’s scholarship awards, said "The Council’s Scholarship Awards
program provides opportunities to student undergraduates from universities in the
Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland to travel to the United States and to
work temporarily in American corporations. These scholarships provide project-oriented,
meaningful work assignments in U.S. business corporations of all sizes. The assignments
are linked to the fields of study and academic disciplines which the undergraduate
scholars are pursuing in Ireland."
Mr. Gibbons also noted "The Council has a strict rule in administering this program
that the chosen candidate scholars are selected by faculty in the participating
universities in Ireland. This year, as it happens, all five of this year’s crop
of Council scholars are young women. The Council's participation in this program
reflects its interest in highlighting the excellent educational infrastructure which
has been developed throughout the island of Ireland."
The Council's scholarship candidates are typically undergraduate university students
in their junior year of college - the third year of their four-year bachelors' study
programs. The term of the scholarship runs from May thru September each year. The
Council partners on this program with Fordham University for those Council Scholars
based in New York City - these are accommodated in the residence halls of the Lincoln
Center campus of the college during their time in Manhattan. In addition, the Council
works with Fordham University on a separate program of internship placements in
corporations in Ireland for U.S.-based postgraduate scholars.
Mr. Gibbons added "The Council, for its part, provides a cash award toward each
student's travel expenses. The project-oriented employment assignments, which the
Council arranges for the students, enhance their learning experiences in America,
linked as they are to their field of study. We are indebted to the Universities
in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland for their support and assistance
in mounting this program.”
Students selected by their colleges as the Council's 2008 participating scholars
are:
- Nathalie Ennis is from Midleton, County Cork who is enrolled at Trinity College
Dublin studying for an Economics Major in a four-year Business, Economics and Social
Studies Degree. She will travel to New York City to take up her appointment to work
at Mutual of America in New York.
- Helena Keenan hails from Letterkenny, County Donegal and has completed her
third year in a four-year degree program to graduate as a Bachelor of Science in
Accounting and French at the School of Management at Queen’s University Belfast.
Linda will work at Allied Irish Banks in New York.
- Anne Byrne is a native of Naas, County Kildare and is a student at Trinity
College Dublin where she is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business and Political
Science. She will work at the world headquarters of News Corporation in New
York.
- Sarah Conmy, whose home is in Loughrea, County Galway, has been chosen by
NUI Galway to participate as a Council Scholar this year. She is pursuing a Bachelor
of Science degree in chemistry and biochemistry and will travel to New Jersey to
take up her work assignment at Merck & Company.
- Elaine Stack, from Youghal, County Cork, is studying for a Bachelor of Science
degree in chemistry at University College Cork. She has been selected to work with
Pfizer, Inc. in New York City.
The Ireland-U.S. Council was founded in 1963 by American and Irish business
leaders. Its principal objective is to encourage closer business links between Ireland
and America. The Council operates a variety of scholarship and internship programs,
stages seminars and hosts frequent events in Ireland and in America aimed at building
business bonds and commercial connections across the Atlantic between the island
of Ireland and the United States. The Council is not-for-profit corporation with
headquarters in New York City and a permanent office in Dublin.
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