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ICC Auditorium

The Weintal Awards

The oldest of the Institute's annual public affairs activities, the Weintal program awards scholarships to MSFS students, bestows prizes for diplomatic reporting, and provides a forum for an address on international affairs. These activities are funded from an endowment established by the will of Edward Weintal, a Polish diplomat and diplomatic correspondent for Newsweek magazine.

2008 Edward Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting

Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (ISD) will mark the 33rd anniversary of the Edward Weintal Prize for International Reporting with a ceremony and discussion honoring the 2008 winners on March 31, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. in the Bunn Intercultural Center (ICC) Auditorium.

Selected for their outstanding reporting and analysis over the past year, the 2008 Weintal Prize recipients are Margaret Warner, a senior correspondent for "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer" on PBS and Trudy Rubin, a columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer. In addition, Walter Pincus, a 2002 Pulitzer Prize-winner with The Washington Post, will receive a special citation. [RSVP] The awards ceremony will be hosted by Weintal Committee Chairman, Marvin Kalb. Mr. Kalb will also lead a panel discussion by the awardees on the topic of "The Foreign Policy of a Presidential Campaign."

2007 Edward Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting

Weintal participants
From left: Marvin Kalb, Carlotta Gall, Martin Smith, Warren Strobel, Jonathan Landay, Anthony Shadid, Robert Gallucci.

Selected for their outstanding reporting and analysis over the past year, the 2007 Weintal Prize recipients are Carlatta Gall, Afghanistan correspondent for the New York Times, and Anthony Shadid, Middle East correspondent for the Washington Post. In addition, two Weintal Citations were awarded. Jonathan Landay, National Security and Intelligence correspondent, and Warren Strobel, Foreign Affairs correspondent, of the McClatchy Group were chosen for award-winning coverage of foreign, security, and intelligence matters for more than a decade and a half. Martin Smith of RAIN Media and PBS Frontline was recognized for more than thirty years of experience in documentary film work and a distinguished record of covering key foreign affairs subjects.

Edward Weintal Scholars

Carlos Alberto De Juana and Margaret Yunbok Lee
Carlos Alberto De Juana and Margaret Yunbok Lee

The Weintal trust also provides scholarships for graduate students in the Master of Science in Foreign Service program. The intent of the full two-year scholarships is to reward U.S. and foreign students with excellent public service records and great potential. Ms. Margaret Yunbok Lee will complete the second year of the scholarship during the 2007-2008 academic year. Rafael D. Frankel was awarded the latest scholarship.