Last year, with a generous gift from Jennifer Millstone ’00 and David J. Millstone ’99, Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) launched the Millstone Fellowship program to support undergraduate students interested in careers in public service.
The competitive fellowship provides recipients with resources to pay for housing, transportation, and other expenses while they gain valuable experience in internships that are often unpaid and build a network of peers and professional contacts in the public sector.
“We are tremendously excited to have added the Millstone Fellowship to ISPS’s roster of student-focused programs,” said Alan Gerber, ISPS director and Sterling Professor of Political Science.
The seven members of the inaugural fellowship cohort spent the past summer in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the US Attorney in the Central District of California, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Recovery Programs, and other state and federal offices around the country.
In the future, the program aims to feature as many as fifteen students and will rapidly grow its network infrastructure to serve as a central clearinghouse of information on the opportunities that are available to undergraduates looking for places to have a big impact.