Entries from January 2009

January 30, 2009

Student Experience Survey

Georgia Tech is conducting a Student Experience survey and recently sent an invitation to participate to a sample of undergraduate students. Please take a moment to check your inbox for a message from Jim Fetig, AVP of Georgia Tech Communications & Marketing.
If you have been invited to to take part, your participation is vital to understanding the student [...]

January 30, 2009

Call for Student Papers

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Solutions for the South
The Roosevelt Institution is proud to announce a new publication, Solutions for the South.  The American South, defined here as the region outlined by (and including) Texas-Oklahoma-Arkansas-Tennessee-Kentucky-Virginia, presents unique and challenging issues to policymakers.  The goal of this journal is to encourage student policy minds across the country to apply [...]

January 30, 2009

I2S Competition

There will be $4,000 in prizes for the Ideas 2 Serve: Socially and Environmentally Responsible Value Enhancement winners. 
 
The best I2S submissions will be displayed, and judged, along with some of the best entrants to the business plan competition, at a reception at the Interface Flor showroom on Spring Street between 5th and 6th Streets on the evening [...]

January 30, 2009

Summer and Fall Registration

Hello All,
Its almost time of year again to start getting ready for registration.  So I have put together just about everything you need to get you through the process started.  Summer and Fall schedules are officially available March 18th.  To learn now about the offerings this summer visit the site I created summer@tech2009. If you [...]

January 28, 2009

Internships with Congressional Budget Office

The Congressional Budget Office has opened the online application for students to apply to the CBO Summer Internship Program.  Deadline is March 2, 2009.
CBO provides the Congress with the objective, timely, and nonpartisan analyses needed for economic and budgetary decisions.  Interns contribute to CBO’s work in program areas such as budget and tax policy, health [...]

January 27, 2009

Careers in Public Service Resource

There is much useful information about careers in public service at the website of APPAM (Association for Public Policy and Management):   http://www.publicservicecareers.org/
You’ll find tabs for “Find a Job” (and you can look at jobs that specifically require a BS, MS, or PhD), Career Advice (including advice on finding internships), “Why Public Service,” and information about [...]

January 27, 2009

Policy-Related Jobs (Undergrad and Grad)

A smorgasbord of possibilities:

January 26, 2009

Cash Prizes for Socially & Environmentally Responsible Value Enhancement

This year a new contest track has been added to the Georgia Tech Business Plan Competition. The I2S is intended for current Georgia Tech students and staff who have a very early stage idea or venture concept that ultimately is focused on the triple bottom line of return on investment economically, environmentally, and socially. In the [...]

January 22, 2009

Technology and Public Policy Fellowship for Undergrads

From Professor Hans Klein:
This may be of interest to undergrad and grad students.
The Tisdale Fellowship  http://www.tfas.org/Page.aspx?pid=1516 is designed for outstanding graduate and undergraduate students who are interested in technology and public policy. Undergraduates must be in either their junior or senior year. The selection committee will be looking for students with a concrete record of [...]

January 18, 2009

Summer law program at Harvard or NYU

Trials is a residential scholarship program that helps talented and motivated undergraduates of modest means earn acceptance at the nation’s leading law schools. The aim is to promote diversity in the field of law by reinforcing the skills and focusing the goals of college students whose backgrounds are underrepresented in the legal profession.