Graduate Student Life Grants

The Graduate Student Life Grants program is a request-for-proposal process inviting graduate students to submit creative, community building ideas for possible funding. This is a unique opportunity to enhance graduate student life at the Institute with experiences outside the classroom and lab.

Proposals may focus within a discipline, across departments, within residence halls, across a variety of groups, and elsewhere. Their purpose should be to explore the role and relevance of community in creating a more balanced and fulfilling graduate experience.

The deadline for submitting proposals is Friday, October 17, 2008.

Here are some ideas to get you started!

Grant roll call
Scroll through the project archive for a brief description past projects.

Dean’s invitation
This year, Dean Steve Lerman is especially interested in proposals with an interdisciplinary focus. Such projects have some intellectual component and draw students together to consider a topic or issue that may not fall in any one unique discipline, or department. Examples include:

• the Science Policy Bootcamp
• a film series on the “Spaces of the Cold War”
• interdisciplinary graduate student seminars billed as “Small Talks.”

Model programs
A past project that originated in a particular department or program may serve as a model for another area to adopt. Examples include:

• Food for Thought
• Building Community in the Engineering Systems Division
• Travelling Shabbat Dinners

Here are the details for applying for a grant and, if successful, for managing your grant.

Contact the Grants proram at gslg [at] mit.edu.

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