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April 3, 2006

Press Release

Eleven Estonian Students Get Scholarships to Attend Fund for American Studies Summer Institutes

This year, 34 Estonian students submitted applications to attend Fund for American Studies summer institutes. The Fund for American Studies accepted four Estonian students to their summer institutes at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and seven Estonian students to a program at the Charles University in Prague. All students who were accepted received scholarships.

Ambassador Wos and her husband Louis DeJoy provided full scholarships to three Estonian students attending the institutes in Washington, D.C., and five scholarships to students who are attending the program in Prague.

The Fund for American Studies itself is awarding one full scholarship to a student attending a program in Washington, D.C. and two additional scholarships to students going to study in Prague.

The Fund for American Studies is a nonprofit educational organization, founded in 1967 to explain to college students the fundamental principle of the American political and economic systems. For more information about the Fund for American Studies, please visit the website at www.tfas.org.

For more information please contact the Public Affairs Office at U.S. Embassy Tallinn by e-mail tuiskm@state.gov.