---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [AAASFellows] New program: Emerging Leaders in Science & Society From: "Melanie Roberts" <roberts....@gmail.com> Date: Sun, October 21, 2012 10:49 pm To: aaasfell...@listserv.aaas.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dear former fellows: I'd like to ask for your help with a new program that I've launched in collaboration with AAAS and some current/former fellows, called Emerging Leaders in Science & Society. Our mission is to prepare graduate and professional students to contribute to solutions for real-world problems throughout their professional and civic lives. It's a competitive, extracurricular program that recruits students from all fields to engage communities across the country in dialogue about complex challenges in areas ranging from health to the economy to energy. See www.aaas.org/elissfor more info. Here is how you can help: 1. *Please share the announcement below with graduate & professional students* via your organizations, alma maters, listervs, and social media. We're eager to recruit students from business, law, humanities, arts, education, and health professions, in addition to the STEM fields we all know best. 2. This is my first foray into fundraising... yikes! *I'd really appreciate your help identifying opportunities for grants, corporate sponsorships, or philanthropic donations*. Sponsorships are available for specific theme areas or to support students in particular fields or campuses (more on campus partnerships below). Please contact me directly to discuss. Imagine how much more robust your graduate experience might have been if you had the opportunity to join a cross-disciplinary network of peers and mentors who shared your passion to make a difference. This is also a fun way to develop transferable skills that are helpful in any career. I really appreciate anything you can do to help! Melanie Roberts Congressional (2006-07) and HEHS/NSF (2007-08) Dear graduate and professional students: Do you like to discuss current events and to learn about the latest breakthroughs and ideas in areas outside of your field? Do you want to make a difference in the world, but arent quite sure yet exactly how to do it? If your answers to these questions are a resounding yes, we invite you to join the signature drive<http://app.aaas-science.org/e/er?s=1906&lid=20972&elq=3c007e4f3fb54b8a8704086206a80e8c>in support of a new program for people just like you. Emerging Leaders in Science & Society (ELISS)<http://app.aaas-science.org/e/er?s=1906&lid=20974&elq=3c007e4f3fb54b8a8704086206a80e8c>is hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. It is a grassroots effort developed by former grad students who believe that you are a valuable resource for society and have heard your pleas for more opportunities to contribute to solutions for real-world problems. Through a competitive selection process, ELISS will create cross-disciplinary, national teams of students and advisors in theme areas such as health, environment, community, or economy. Each team will work to inform local and national understanding of a particular challenge within their theme area, which might range from the role of universities in regional economic development to food security in a drought. Solving tough challenges requires innovative solutions at the boundaries of disciplines and collaboration among people with a variety of experience, skills, and perspectives. Thats why ELISS welcomes talented graduate and professional students from ALL fields, including natural and social sciences, engineering, business, law, medicine, humanities, and the arts. It welcomes basic and applied researchers and those who are training to become practitioners in fields ranging from journalism to health care. Imagine what you could accomplish as part of this community of talented people who want to change the world, both during the program and throughout your career -- be it in academia, industry, government or a non-profit. Interested? Heres the catch -- only students at partner campuses<http://app.aaas-science.org/e/er?s=1906&lid=20973&elq=3c007e4f3fb54b8a8704086206a80e8c>may apply for ELISS. *If you would like your campus to be considered for participation,* sign here<http://app.aaas-science.org/e/er?s=1906&lid=20972&elq=3c007e4f3fb54b8a8704086206a80e8c>to let us know, and share the link on Facebook<http://app.aaas-science.org/e/er?s=1906&lid=20972&elq=3c007e4f3fb54b8a8704086206a80e8c>to recruit other students. Campus partners will be selected based on the number of students who sign and disciplines represented. To learn more about the program, please visit our website, www.aaas.org/eliss<http://app.aaas-science.org/e/er?s=1906&lid=20974&elq=3c007e4f3fb54b8a8704086206a80e8c>. We anticipate releasing a call for applications in Spring of 2013. We hope to see some of you in our inaugural class! Until then, best of luck with your studies. The ELISS staff [image: -----] [image: facebook]<http://app.aaas-science.org/e/er?s=1906&lid=63&elq=3c007e4f3fb54b8a8704086206a80e8c> [image: twitter]<http://app.aaas-science.org/e/er?s=1906&lid=6658&elq=3c007e4f3fb54b8a8704086206a80e8c> [image: linkedin]<http://app.aaas-science.org/e/er?s=1906&lid=6659&elq=3c007e4f3fb54b8a8704086206a80e8c> ******* Melanie Roberts, Ph.D. Director Emerging Leaders in Science & Society el...@aaas.org <mrobe...@elissfellows.org> | 202.695.2761 www.aaas.org/eliss | *Facebook*<https://www.facebook.com/EmergingLeadersInScienceSociety>| LinkedIn <http://http//www.linkedin.com/pub/melanie-roberts/6/a40/b18> _______________________________________________ The AAAS Fellows listserv is intended to provide a free forum for exchange of ideas and information among former AAAS Fellows only. 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