Business Software Alliance Scholar Announced for Fall 2005

The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars, in strategic partnership with the Business Software Alliance (BSA), today announced Sean Anthony Graves as the fall 2005 recipient of the Business Software Alliance Scholarship.

Graves, a third year undergraduate majoring in political science and philosophy at Dayton, Ohio's Wright State University, is an outstanding scholar with nearly a 4.0 grade point average. He is in the Honors Program at Wright State, a member of the Phi Alpha Delta Honorary Society and the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, and has been repeatedly named on his university's Dean's List.

Graves is interning at the Washington, D.C. public relations and lobbying firm of Palumbo and Cerrell, Inc. Palumbo and Cerrell is heavily involved in lobbying efforts to protect intellectual property rights, and represents clients such as ASCAP, The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. According to Paul Scrabut, president of Palumbo and Cerrell, “ Graves is working on nothing but intellectual property rights advocacy.”

The Business Software Alliance's scholarships for college interns are an important component of its higher education initiative, introduced in 2003. The scholarship program, offered to outstanding students attending The Washington Center, helps raise awareness among college students about the importance of respecting intellectual property rights for creative works such as music, motion pictures, and computer software.

“BSA commends The Washington Center for providing students with invaluable opportunities to work in the private and government sectors,” said Robert Holleyman, president and CEO for BSA. “BSA is pleased to support these internships which allow young people entering the 21st century workforce to expand their technical knowledge and online awareness.”

According to Arleen Ramirez Borysiewicz, senior vice president at The Washington Center, “The Washington Center is proud to partner with BSA and assist its efforts to support college students such as Sean Graves, an outstanding individual who has demonstrated a high level of personal integrity and a sincere interest in public policy that respects and enforces intellectual property rights.”

The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars is an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization founded in 1975. Its mission is to prepare college and university students and recent graduates for civic leadership through experiential education. In this way, The Washington Center seeks to promote future leadership for the public, private, and nonprofit sectors of society. It has served more than 34,000 students from close to 1,000 colleges and universities located in the United States and around the world. Additional information may be found online at www.twc.edu.

The Business Software Alliance is the foremost organization dedicated to promoting a safe and legal digital world. BSA is the voice of the world's commercial software industry and its hardware partners before governments and in the international marketplace. Its members represent the fastest growing industry in the world. BSA educates consumers on software management and copyright protection, cyber security, trade, e-commerce and other Internet-related issues. BSA members include Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Avid, Bentley Systems, Borland, Cadence Design Systems, Cisco Systems, CNC Software/Mastercam, Dell, Entrust, HP, IBM, Intel, Internet Security Systems, Macromedia, McAfee, Microsoft, PTC, RSA Security, SAP, SolidWorks, Sybase, Symantec, Synopsys, The MathWorks, and UGS.

Contact:s

Joe Mancuso
Manager of Corporate & Foundation Relations
The Washington Center
202-336-7565

Debbi Mayster
Communications Manager
Business Software Alliance
202-530-5132

The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars is an independent, nonprofit educational organization founded in 1975. Its mission is to prepare college and university students for civic leadership through experiential education. In this way, The Washington Center seeks to promote future leadership for the public, private and nonprofit sectors of society. It has served more than 34,000 students from over 1,000 colleges and universities. Visit our website

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