Meet Even J. Kvelland, 2017-18 Thanks To Scandinavia Hebert Singer Memorial Scholar at Columbia University School of International and Political Affairs

Even Kvelland

Even Kvelland is a Norwegian student pursuing his Master’s of International Affairs at Columbia focusing on the intersection of geopolitics, security, and energy. He holds a B.A. in Government from Macalester College where he was a Kofi Annan Scholar. Even has worked as an advisor at the U.S. Embassy in Oslo heading the education and research portfolio and promoting trans-Atlantic student and research exchange. He has also worked for the…

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Hanna Nordenswan, 2017-18 Thanks To Scandinavia Kim Wall Memorial Scholar

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  Hanna is pursuing an MFA in Documentary Film at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and has studied documentary film and journalism in Tanzania and South Africa. As a journalist Hanna has mainly worked with radio, but she considers herself as a written word journalist as well. She has written from Zanzibar and reported from the border of Burundi and Rwanda to tap into Rwanda’s environmental challenges. As…

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Karl Anker Jorgensen, PhD, 1985-86 TTS Scholar at Cornell University

Dr. Karl Anker Jorgensen, Department of Chemistry, University of Aarhus It’s a safe guess that the thought of interviewing a world-famous organic chemist would seem intimidating to most of us, since such titans of genius don’t cross our paths very often. So when we caught up with Dr. Karl-Anker Jorgensen on a recent visit to New York with his wife Mia, it was a relief – and a delight –…

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Søren Larsen, 2016-2017 Thanks To Scandinavia Scholar at Cornell University

Søren Larsen is a Danish PhD. student at Cornell University in the Department of German Studies. He works primarily within the fields of philosophy, political science and the arts. He is a recipient of the Thanks To Scandinavia Richard and Alice Netter Scholarship at Cornell University. What brought about your strong interest in German Jewish philosophy and literature? If the writers I have been interested in were German-Jewish, that has…

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