{"id":5864,"date":"2009-05-11T17:18:27","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T21:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=5864"},"modified":"2009-05-11T17:20:33","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T21:20:33","slug":"new-scholarship-for-jet-alumni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/11\/new-scholarship-for-jet-alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"New scholarship for JET alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via JETAA Texoma (Chapter 9):<\/em><\/p>\n

Dear Texoma JET Alumni:<\/p>\n

The Consulate-General of Japan at Houston is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for a special Research Student Scholarship available only to past JET Program participants. Like ordinary Research Student Scholarships, this opportunity provides recipients with round-trip airfare to Japan, all tuition expenses, and a monthly allowance of 152,000 yen (approx. $1450) per month. The scholarship term will be one-and-a-half to two years, extendable if the recipient is accepted to a masters or PhD program.<\/p>\n

To qualify, applicants must be previous JET participants, citizens of the United States, have been born on or after April 2, 1975, and should be in good health. Furthermore, applicants must be able to arrive in Japan between April 1 and April 7 or between October 1 and October 7, 2010 and have intermediate or higher level Japanese ability. Proposed fields of study should be the same or related to a field applicants studied previously.<\/p>\n

More details can be found at: http:\/\/www.houston.us.emb-japan.go.jp\/en\/culture\/page11-2.htm<\/a>. The deadline for applications is June 26, 2009, so please start your applications soon. Be sure to include your JET experience on your application. If you have any questions, please contact me at 713-652-2977 x2114 or jetcoord@cgjhou. org<\/a>. This is a tremendous opportunity, so we hope many of you will apply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via JETAA Texoma (Chapter 9): Dear Texoma JET Alumni: The Consulate-General of Japan at Houston is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for a special Research Student Scholarship available only to past JET Program participants. Like ordinary Research Student Scholarships, this opportunity provides recipients with round-trip airfare to Japan, all tuition expenses, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","category-jobs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t