Austin Crane is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Geography Department at UW and the recipient of the EU Center’s esteemed Jean Monnet Chair EU Graduate Research Grant. With the help of the grant, Crane was able to travel to the UK in July 2016. Here, he dove head-first into research on Assisted Voluntary Return (AVR).

UW Political Science PhD student, Jonathan Beck, was recently awarded the Jean Monnet Chair EU Graduate Research Grant from the EU Center (EUC) for a two-week research project in Berlin, Germany. Beck traveled to Berlin in order to explore the question “Why have students in Germany been so relatively successful in their fight against tuition