Tag: Research
Present at the 2021 CAIR Conference on Inequality and Social Justice
The Collegiate Association for Inequality Research (CAIR) at Wake Forest University is seeking presenters for their inaugural Conference on Social Justice and Inequality. CAIR is a student-led organization that allows students to pursue undergraduate research on social inequity and to help ease inequality through peer mentoring research groups and conferences such as this. To read more about CAIR, click here. The deadline for abstract submission is April 3, 2021. The conference will be held on April 24, 2021. For the Conference on Social Justice and Inequality CAIR is seeking research projects…
Read MoreSummer 2021 Neal Family Research Fellowships
The Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy here at Georgia Tech are offering 2 Neal Family Research Fellowships for the summer of 2021. Each fellowship is worth $5000, and recipients will each complete an independent research project under the supervision of Dr. Alasdair Young. One recipient will support the core functions of CISTP, including helping to organize events, prepare grant applications, and write reports. The other recipient will support the Cross-Program Research Initiative on Technological Competition, which will involve organizing meetings, taking notes, and conducting background research. Each will…
Read MoreInternational Labor Organization Fellowship and Grants for Junior Researchers
The ILO project “From Research to Action: Using Knowledge to Accelerate Progress in the Elimination of Child Labor and Forced Labor” (RTA), in collaboration with the International Organization for Migration and support from the United States Department of Labor, invites you to submit high-quality research proposals on child labor, forced labor, and human trafficking. The project will provide funding to support researchers from a variety of disciplines to fill knowledge gaps and achieve policy impact. The deadline to apply for this opportunity April 16 at 10 AM EST or 4 PM…
Read MoreOne-Time China-U.S. Scholars Program
The Institute of International Education (IIE) aims to increase interconnectedness globally by supporting educational pursuits. They offer scholarships and help students gain access to educational opportunities such as the China-U.S. Scholars Program (CUSP). CUSP is an exchange program for arts and humanities students from China, Hong Kong SAR, and the United States to allow them to conduct research abroad. 48 grants will be awarded to select students and faculty (the awards expected to be relatively equally distributed among the three pools of applicants from each location). Grants will last for…
Read MoreGT CampusLife Research SEEKING PARTICIPANTS
A GT CampusLife research team led by Profs. Munmun De Choudhury, Thomas Ploetz, Gregory Abowd, and other faculty members. As you may know, the GT contact tracers, the volunteer GT staff, are working hard to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in our community. They have explored new technologies that help contact tracers and found GT Eduroam Wifi log data can be useful for contact tracers. They are developing a prototype that can show the trajectory of places where a person who tested positive visited and the anonymized others who could…
Read MoreSUMMER 2021 Mercy Corps Internships
Mercy Corps is a humanitarian effort that works in over 40 countries. They strive to alleviate suffering, poverty, and oppression by helping people build secure, productive, and just communities. They use a comprehensive approach of many angles to help solve the problems for good. Mercy Corps is currently seeking interns for the summer semester to aid them in their mission. Some of the ways Mercy Corps enacts change are: Congressional Advocacy: direct meetings with key congressional offices, participation in briefings and hearings, review and commenting on draft legislation, active participation…
Read More2021-2022 President’s Undergraduate Research Awards
President’s Undergraduate Research Awards fund student salaries to conduct undergraduate research with Georgia Tech faculty and offset travel expenses for undergraduates to present their research at professional conferences. Between two hundred and three hundred competitive awards are offered each year. Salary Awards offer a $1,500 stipend to undergraduate students who are conducting research with a Georgia Tech faculty member or Georgia Tech Research Institute scientist. Both faculty members and students can initiate research projects, but the award proposal must be written by the student, and the student must apply by…
Read MoreIMMEDIATE START Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program
*Approaching Deadline* The Team Lead for the Security and International Affairs Think Tanks (SIATTs) project at the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program is looking to quickly recruit 2 interns. The work includes data collection, reading literature on SIATTs, and eventually contributing to the writing of a research report on finding. This work is fully remote, and would begin immediately, preferably before February 26, 2021, and would end on April 26, 2021. This opportunity is unpaid. The deadline to apply is Monday, February 22, 2021. Qualifications MUST be able to…
Read MoreSummer 2021 CNS Undergraduate Nonproliferation Fellowship Program
*Approaching Deadline* The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) works to combat the spread of weapons of mass destruction by providing the next generation of nonproliferation specialists with training and by disseminating information and analysis. CNS is offering an undergraduate fellowship opportunity at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS, formerly the Monterey Institute of International Studies). This opportunity is paid and will last 2-3 months likely beginning in early June until late August. Due to the covid-19 pandemic, there is a chance that this opportunity will…
Read MoreSUMMER 2021 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Internship Opportunites
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has a mission of strengthening the United States’ security by developing and applying world-class science, technology, and engineering that enhances the nation’s defense, reduces the global threat from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, and responds with vision, quality, integrity and technical excellence to scientific issues of national importance. The Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) was established at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in 1996 to bring together experts from the science, technology, and policy communities to address pressing national security challenges. For over 20…
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