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CAS Student to Serve as White House Intern
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Matthew J. Hornung, a senior Political Science major, has been awarded a highly prestigious White House Internship in Washington,D.C. for the spring semester. The Internship Program selects 100 interns per semester to work in the White House, from thousands of applications. Hornung, a native of Hickory Hills, Illinois, will initially be assigned to the White House Correspondence Office where he will be responsible for reading mail addressed to President Bush and his Cabinet, researching the issues raised in the letters and e-mails, and drafting Presidential responses.

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In addition to his placement in the White House Correspondence Office, Hornung will also attend weekly seminars led by members of the Bush Cabinet on issues of public policy and have the opportunity to interact with these prominent national leaders on a regular basis.

Hornung’s primary policy interest lies in the realm of security policy in the Middle East. This semester Hornung has been enrolled in an independent study on Middle East Politics with Dr. Jamal Nassar, a leading expert on Palestinian politics, to prepare him for this experience.

Hornung joins a distinguished list of former White House interns from ISU’s Department of Politics and Government: practicing attorneys Martin Kasten (’95) and Jason Saunders, and Michelle Ledger Frank (’98) who is Corporate Communication Manager with Orbital Sciences Corporation. 

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