WEST POINT, N.Y. – Senior cadet David Lee was named East-West Fellow for the 2009-2010 academic year, which will allow him to pursue a master’s degree at the University of Hawaii beginning in Aug. 2010.

Lee, a Nuclear Engineering major from Sandy, Utah, will pursue a Master of Asian Studies. 

Lee spent a semester studying at Peking University, China and is the president of the Chinese Language and Culture Club here.  He has interned at both Sandia National Laboratories and the U.S. State Department. 

“I’m really grateful for this opportunity to study at the East-West Center.  I hope to combine my interests in nuclear technology and Asian politics into something that may be helpful in the future,” said Lee.

Lee is the 39th West Point cadet to earn an East-West fellowship since the academy began competing in 1991.  

According to the Center’s Web site it “is an education and research organization established by the U.S. Congress in 1960 to strengthen relations and understanding among the peoples and nations of Asia, the Pacific and the United States.”

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