MIT: Independent Activities Period: IAP

IAP 2013 Activities by Category - Global Opportunities

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Afternoon Tea & CME

Bree Koziara, Career Assistant

Jan/14 Mon 03:00PM-04:00PM 4-145

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: none

Enjoy a fine selection of tea accompanied by fresh scones and jam while you learn more about the Cambridge-MIT Exchange.

Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Josh Nupp, 12-189, 617-715-5331, jnupp@mit.edu


Do You Have What It Takes to Win a Distinguished Fellowship?

John Ochsendorf, Linn Hobbs

Feb/01 Fri 01:00PM-02:00PM 4-145

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: none

This session will introduce participants to distinguished fellowships’ application processes, including Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, and others. Recent winners will be in attendance, as well as former national selection panelists. Here you will learn what is involved, and how to be successful in one of these competitions.

Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Josh Nupp, 12-189, 617-715-5331, jnupp@mit.edu


Global Health Innovations Using Mobile Applications

Eric Winkler, SANA - Software Development Lead

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Pre-registration and attendance at first meeting
Prereq: Interest in mHealth, telemedicine, global health, etc.

Want to develop real-world skills and knowledge that will make an impact on global health?
This course is focused on exposing engineers, entrepreneurs, and researchers to the challenges of global health and provide the opportunity to develop skills necessary to build disruptive technologies.  Participants will examine, design, and prototype mHealth solutions for real public health issues.  Sample projects include: image processing for post-surgical wound monitoring, audiological signal processing, mHealth device design and manufacturing.  Prototypes will be developed using the Sana Platform, which is an Android-based, open-source, telemedicine project based out of MIT CSAIL. This course can be used by students as a primer for HST.936 which is offered in the Spring.  Sponsored by Sana and H@cking Medicine.

 

Prerequisites: Interest in mHealth, telemedicine, global health, and/or Android development experience.

Sponsor(s): SANA
Contact: Eric Winkler, iap@sanamobile.org


Jan/22 Tue 09:00AM-12:00PM 56-162
Jan/23 Wed 09:00AM-12:00PM 56-162
Jan/24 Thu 09:00AM-12:00PM 56-162
Jan/25 Fri 09:00AM-12:00PM 56-162

Eric Winkler - SANA - Software Development Lead


London Calling: Learn about how to apply to Graduate School and succeed in the UK

Christopher Payne, Head of USA Office - King's College London

Jan/23 Wed 03:00PM-04:00PM 56-114

Enrollment: Sign up on CareerBridge

Discover how you can gain your Master's degree in a year or a PHD degree in 3 years from world leading universities and gain an international experience which will set you apart!

This interactive session will be presented by Chris Payne from King's College London and cover an overview of UK graduate study, benefits of studying in the UK, application process and how to find scholarships to support your study in the UK. The session will also discuss educational cultural differences between the US and UK and provide tips for your academic success and beyond. This session is a must for anyone thinking of studying in the UK! 

Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Amanda Peters, 12-170, 617 253-4733, ACPETERS@MIT.EDU


MIT in China - Finding Opportunities to Go Abroad to China

Josh Nupp, Assistant Dean, Global Education, Sean Gilbert, Managing Director, MIT-China

Jan/28 Mon 02:00PM-03:00PM 4-145

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: none

Hear about opportunities in China from representatives of several MIT offices, including Global Education, MISTI, UROP, and FL&L. We will discuss the MIT-China program, the Chinese Government Scholarship, IROP Summer Research Exchanges, and funding opportunities for summer and IAP Chinese language study abroad programs.

Sponsor(s): Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Josh Nupp, 12-189, 617-715-5331, jnupp@mit.edu


Small Happinesses: Women in China's Transition

Christopher Leighton

Feb/01 Fri 05:30PM-07:30PM E51-095

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/29
Prereq: None

China's recent economic and social transformations have drawn international interest, but what has it felt like to live them? We will consider the particular case of women, and follow their changing place in China over the last thirty years through ethnographic films. How have changing politics, economic growth, or evolvinging social norms affected their lives? Do urban and rural women share similar key concerns, or are their most important problems defined by something other than their sex--their class, for example? To what extent are the tensions and changes we see particular and "Chinese" and to what extent are they universal?

Participants will watch documentary film clips, share a meal of Chinese food, and discuss these questions. No prerequisites, all welcome.

Sponsor(s): History
Contact: Christopher Leighton, E51-288, 617 324-0541, cleight@MIT.EDU


THE LAST RESORT: DISASTER RELIEF METHODOLOGIES FOR A NEW CENTURY

Sam Magee, Coordinator of Student Art Programs, Sam Jacobson, Masters Student SA and P

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/06
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: none

 A THINK TANK FOR MASS PRODUCED DISASTER RELIEF HOUSING

 

DESIGN CHARRETTE AND SEMINAR. The Last Resort is an opportunity to get involved in a grassroots disaster relief housing strategies think tank, to be based at MIT. Participants will address the functional requirements, design parameters, and models for social, political, and economic engagement for emergency shelter management adaptable to twenty first century realities at local and global scales.  Focused on the catalyzation of a new higher-education-centered focus on architecture’s material and social engagement in contexts of extreme volatility, The Last Resort aims to produce usable and radically pragmatic architectural prototypes as well as instigate a new, emergent, scholarly network of collaboration around disaster relief strategies, during this year’s IAP.

 

Contact: Sam Magee, E15-205, 617 253-4004, SAMMAGEE@MIT.EDU


Jan/07 Mon 02:00PM-04:00PM W20-429, Bring your laptop
Jan/14 Mon 02:00PM-04:00PM Location TBD
Jan/21 Mon 02:00PM-04:00PM Location TBD
Jan/28 Mon 02:00PM-04:00PM Location TBD

Sam Magee - Coordinator of Student Art Programs, Sam Jacobson - Masters Student SA and P