Davis Projects for Peace – Summer 2009

Still thinking of how to spend the summer of 2009? Are you motivated and interested in developing your own grassroots project that you can implement anywhere in the world?! Well we have a program for you!!

Davis Projects for Peace is an initiative for students of participating schools in the Davis United World College Scholars Program to design a “project for peace” of their own. With no clear definition or boundaries, students are to define a “project for peace” to encourage creativity and innovation. Through a competition of 76 campuses, 100 projects are selected for funding at $10,000 each. Projects can take place anywhere in the world, and it must be completed during the summer of 2009. Students can submit a project individually or in a group. This opportunity is open to all Columbia undergraduate students.

Please submit (1) the application cover letter, (2) a two-page proposal describing the project, (2) a one-page budget outline, and (4) resumes for each applicant in hard copy to the Fellowship Programs Office and electronically to Dean Michael Pippenger at mp2496@columbia.edu no later than Monday, FEBRUARY 9th, at 5:00pm.

For further information please visit their official website at: www.kwd100projectsforpeace.org. Please contact the Fellowship Programs Office for further questions.