Big Learning Event Scholarship

The Office of Sustainability is offering 5 undergraduate students and 5 graduate students a scholarship to gain them admission to the 2013 UW Big Learning Event (http://biglearningevent.wisc.edu/) on June 5th and 6th at the Gordon Dining and Event Center. The event will give students the unique opportunity to engage with today’s brightest minds and find solutions to today’s most pressing issues. Guest speakers include:

• Saleem Ali, Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and the founding Director of the Institute for Environmental Diplomacy and Security at UVM’s James Jeffords Center for Policy Research
• Jill Tarter, Astronomer and former Director of the Center for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence)
• Lynda Barry, Author and cartoonist credited with expanding the literary, thematic and emotional range of American comics
• Molly Carnes, Tenured Professor in the Department of Medicine at UW-Madison and Co-Director of WISELI (Women in Science & Engineering Leadership Institute)
• Etienne Wegner, educational theorist and a leader in the field of social learning systems

How to apply:Complete the application (available here) by Wednesday, May 15 at 8:00 AM. Please send all applications to Sarbrina Bradshaw. The application has two components: a cover sheet and two (very) short essays. Both the cover sheet and the prompts are included in . You MUST be able to attend both days of the event in order to qualify for the scholarship!