There are many urgent problems facing the planet: a degrading environment, a healthcare system in crisis, and educational systems that are inadequately training innovative thinkers to solve the problems of tomorrow. A balanced approach is required to solve these problems: a balance between design and technology, a balance between human-centered and technology-centered approaches, and a balance between different world cultures and ways of thinking. The World Lab is a new research and educational institution that is ideally suited to tackle these grand challenges. The World Lab is sited jointly between two of the world’s leading computing and human-centered design institutions, the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle and Tsinghua University in Beijing.
The World Lab Summer Institute at the University of Washington brings together students from technology, design, social science and business backgrounds, and challenges them to create prototypes for products and services that solve pressing social problems.
Institute Calendar: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/landay/teaching/world%20lab%20summer/
If interested, send a note to James Landay describing your background and your interest. This Institute is open to undergraduate and graduate students.
Looking for students who program in Java and/or PHP to work on open source global health web-based software[1][2][3][4] with the School of Nursing’s Clinical Informatics Research Group[5] (CIRG) and UW I-TECH[6][7]. Health/clinical experience not necessary.
NSF’s East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students (EAPSI) are seeking applications from interested students to conduct research at host laboratories in Australia, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, or Taiwan. An estimated 200 awards will be made for institutes lasting 8-10 weeks. Awardees receive a $5,000 stipend and airfare, while living expenses are provided by foreign co-sponsoring organizations. According to the notice, “applicants must be enrolled in a research-oriented master’s or PhD program and be U.S. citizens or U.S. permanent residents by the application deadline date” of November 9, 2011.
The upcoming fourth annual round of CIMIT Award for engineering students has been announced nationwide. This Prize, sponsored by a generous private donor and administered by the MGH and CIMIT, is designed to reward technology innovations directed at clinically important needs in Primary Healthcare. The top three student teams will receive $150,000, $100,000 and $50,000, respectively. 
February 24-25, 2012
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