UW Graduate and Professional Students:
Are
you looking for opportunities to give back to your community and
collaborate across disciplines to address real-world problems? If so, we
invite you to apply to the Emerging Leaders in Science & Society (ELISS) -
a leadership program hosted by the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and supported in part by the UW Graduate School.
ELISS is
a year-long, extra-curricular program that will boost your leadership
skills and introduce you to systems-based thinking and
community-building in the context of complex, real-world problems.
You’ll work with peers from a variety of disciplines and campuses
(Purdue, UPenn, and Stanford) to engage your community and to inform
dialogue about the challenges that face modern society. Our current
theme areas include Health & Well-being and Energy &
Environment.
ELISS
fellows donate an average of 5 hours per week to program activities,
including the team project, leadership skill development, and
organizational development. ELISS pays for all training and
ELISS-related travel. This is a volunteer opportunity and therefore does
not provide a stipend or funding for your graduate research.
Since
addressing complex challenges requires expertise from all fields -
including natural and social sciences, professional fields, arts &
humanities, engineering, and more - we welcome applicants from all
disciplines. To be eligible, you must be enrolled in a graduate or professional program through at least December 2015.
For more information or to apply, please visit www.aaas.org/eliss. Step 1 of the application must be completed no later than June 20, 2014. If you have questions, please email us at uw@elissfellows.org.
Warmly,
Cyan James (Public Health Genetics)
Eva Linh (Pharmacy)
Chantz Thomas (Chemistry)
Amber Trout (Built Environment)
UW ELISS Fellows | 2014
