Ambassador John E Lange Scholarship for Study Abroad in Africa

"This scholarship is intended to support undergraduate students studying abroad in Sub-Saharan Africa, including those who have an interest in global health, for a semester or year. Preference will be given to applicants with a grade point average of at least 3.0 and to applicants who are Wisconsin residents. The recipients must not have studied abroad with IAP before and must have demonstrated financial need as determined by the Office of Student Financial Aid. It is preferred that at least one of the scholarships will be applied to the study of global health. John Lange, BA ’71 JD ’75, established the Ambassador John E. Lange Scholarship for Study Abroad in Africa to help UW-Madison undergraduates expand their horizons through study in Sub-Saharan Africa, where he spent many years as a diplomat. Lange grew up in Muskego, Wisconsin. He had a distinguished 28-year career in the Foreign Service at the U.S. Department of State, where he received awards for his leadership in a crisis at the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, served as Ambassador to Botswana, and was a pioneer in global health diplomacy and pandemic preparedness and response. During his career at the State Department, Ambassador Lange served as the Special Representative on Avian and Pandemic Influenza (2006-2009); Deputy Inspector General; Deputy U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator at the inception of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief; and Associate Dean for Leadership and Management at the Foreign Service Institute, where he directed the federal government’s highest-level civilian/military joint training program. Earlier, he was the U.S. Ambassador to Botswana and Special Representative to the Southern African Development Community (1999-2002), where he oversaw operations of seven U.S. Government agencies and made the fight against HIV / AIDS his signature issue. Lange headed the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, as Chargé d’Affaires at the time of the August 7, 1998, Al-Qaeda terrorist bombin"