 Hi, I'm Stephanie Happley, and I'm the Deputy Director of Academic and Student Programs as well as a senior fellow with the HIKE program. Hello, my name is Yulia Yatsushina, and I am a Program Manager with Academic and Student Programs at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Hey, my name is Jessica Cargis, and I am a Program Manager with the Academic and Student Program team at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. So we have several total fellowship programs here at the Mercatus Center. All of them have a goal of introducing students to new thinkers and ideas in political economy and public policy. For all of our fellowship programs, there is no monetary cost to participate. Our most intensive fellowship programs with the most monetary support are our two George Mason specific fellowship programs. These are the PhD fellowship and the MA fellowship program. The PhD fellowship is for students at George Mason University getting a PhD in economics, and it's for students interested in going into a career in academia. And then our MA fellowship program is for students at George Mason University getting a master's degree in economics who are interested in going into a career in public policy. Our broadest fellowship program is the Don LaVoy Fellowship. This is for any advanced undergraduate students, students who have graduated from undergrad but are interested in going into graduate school but aren't there yet, so that in between students and early career graduate students. You can be attending any university from across the globe, and you can be in any discipline or major. This is a completely virtual fellowship, and it's a semester long program. It's a really great introduction to a lot of the thinkers and ideas that we regularly engage with, and an introduction to our other graduate fellowship programs. We have the Frederick Basiat fellowship, the Adam Smith fellowship, and the Oscar Morgenstern fellowship. For each of these programs, you can be attending any school globally, and you can be in any major or discipline to qualify, but you have to be in a graduate degree. The distinction is that if you are in a master's degree or a law degree program, you only qualify for the Frederick Basiat fellowship. If you are in a PhD program, you qualify for all three. So the Basiat fellowship is for any master's degree student, law student, or a PhD student who's interested in learning more about public policy and ideas and thinkers that can be applied to learning more about public policy. Our Adam Smith fellowship program is for PhD students in any discipline attending any university, and it's for students interested in going into academia. Our Oscar Morgenstern fellowship is for PhD students attending any university who are in a PhD program that is focused on quantitative methodology, but are also interested in going into a career in academia. Yes, recent graduates who are considering graduate school are eligible to apply to the Dong Voi fellowship. We think the program can be helpful in determining the next steps in your academic career path. Past fellows have done all sorts of research, and you can see some examples from selected alumni on our website, as well as a list of alumni who come from different disciplines and backgrounds that have participated in our fellowships. Some of our fellows get to go on and do research with high program scholars or Mercatus scholars that work in policy, including getting to work on edited volumes. So check those out to learn more. So why do you Mercatus fellowships instead of other opportunities? One, our intensive programs like the PhD and MA fellowship provide not only training in graduate school, but practical experience like an apprenticeship and going to academia or working in public policy. So it really prepares you for your career. And second, the supplemental programs that we offer provide a way to discuss important ideas and political economy and public policy that you might not get in your home institution and to meet a bunch of other fellows and scholars that are interested in these ideas as well. They're all supplemental so you can do them in addition to your programs and other fellowships that you might want to do as well. So yes, the Frederick Ross Dott fellowship will help you with that because it is a very applied program and it's geared towards students who want to learn more about public policy. However, in order to qualify for the fellowship program, you have to be a graduate student. So you have to be in a master's degree, a law degree or a PhD program in order to be able to qualify to apply for the fellowship. The Donald boy fellowship is oriented towards those who are considered graduate school. That said, we evaluate each individual based on accomplishments and the level of interest in learning about the key ideas in Austria and Virginia and Bloomington schools of political economy, as well as contemporary work in this tradition. Therefore, we encourage you to apply if you're interested and satisfy those eligibility requirements. Yes, the Donald boy fellowship is aimed at advanced undergraduates from any major so long as they have an interest in learning about the key ideas in Austria and Virginia and Bloomington schools of political economy, as well as contemporary works in this tradition. Unfortunately, we don't offer postdoctoral fellowships at the Mercata Center that we do have openings for researchers from time to time and you can check those out on our job opportunities section of the website. The Hike program does offer research support for scholars that are pursuing research that intersects with our ideas. We're always taking proposals and you can learn more on our website. Our PhD and MA fellowships do have GPA requirements for continuing in the program, but for our supplemental programs, there isn't a GPA requirement for being selected. We do ask about unofficial transcripts, as well as explanations of your career path which you're interested in and why you're interested in political economy and public policy in particular. Our fellowships are geared for graduate students at all levels of their career so you can apply at any time.