Brandon Thibodaux, economics/finance junior, is to be awarded a 2003 national fellowship by the Una Chapman Cox Foundation.

Thibodaux, who will work as intern in the U.S. Embassy in Paris this summer, is one of 15 students throughout the United States who will receive a Cox Fellowship.

The purpose of the fellowship is to help cover the expenses of students who will serve as interns at U.S. diplomatic missions overseas this summer.

The awards are given to outstanding upper classmen or graduate students who have demonstrated superior intellectual achievement, motivation and an interest in a foreign service career.

The Cox Foundation, established in 1980 by Una Chapman Cox, is dedicated to the proposition that the United States needs a strong, professional foreign service.

The fellowship program is one of the ways the Cox Foundation achieves its goal, according to the Foundation.

Thibodaux was nominated for the Cox Fellowship by a Loyola graduate who felt that he held the qualities necessary for foreign service.

Francis “Paco” Scanlan, A ’69, is a Senior Foreign Service Officer who is assigned as Diplomat in Residence at Tulane University.

The U.S. State Department has fourteen DIRs assigned to colleges and universities throughout the United States.

The State Department offers internships abroad and in Washington, D.C.

The deadline to apply for Spring 2004 internships is July 1 and for Summer 2004 internships November 1.

Students interested in internships or careers with the State Department should visit the State Department website at www.careers.state.gov.