[bioundgrd] Fwd: Paid Public Service Fellowship opportunities for Biology students

[Janice Chang]

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>From: "Alison Hynd" <hynd at MIT.EDU>
>Subject: Paid Public Service Fellowship opportunities for Biology students
>Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:21:51 -0500
>
>The Public Service Center is offering paid Fellowship opportunities 
>to MIT students for the spring semester and the summer!
>If you are an MIT student, you can work on a project by yourself, 
>with friends, or apply to join a team selected by the Public Service 
>Fellowships staff. You can create your own project or select an 
>advertised project to work on from our website. All Fellows work on 
>projects that bring sustainable benefits to communities around the 
>world.
>Check out the opportunities at http://web.mit.edu/mitpsc/fellowships/
>Current opportunities include:
>For Spring
>* Design and implement interactive web elements for the Full Belly Project
>* Develop MIT collaborations with community organizations in Luanda, 
>Angola For Summer
>* Improve African wheelchair technology
>* Motivate and Facilitate Grassroots Innovation and Entrepreneurship 
>in Chennai, India
>* R&D projects with the Full Belly Project - maximize devices that 
>alleviate labor and increase crop values in developing nations
>* Develop a community computer center or a women's business skills 
>program with the Life and Water Development Group, Cameroon
>
>Applications for Summer Fellowships are due at noon on March 21. 
>Applications for Spring Fellowships are accepted on a rolling basis.
>
>Questions? Email Alison at hynd at mit.edu
>
>**My office is in W20-549, not in the Building 4 PSC suite**
>
>Alison Hynd, PhD
>IDEAS Competition and Fellowships Coordinator
>MIT Public Service Center
>MIT Room W20-549
>77 Massachusetts Avenue
>Cambridge, MA 02139
>
>617 258 0691
>hynd at mit.edu
>
>http://web.mit.edu/ideas and http://web.mit.edu/mitpsc/fellowships