Recent Internship Grant Recipients

Cooper Thomas '14

Cooper spent Summer 2013 as the GIS Intern for the Boston Cyclists Union, analyzing bicycle incident data to locate the safest and most dangerous areas for riders in the city and create maps and information graphics.

Tausif Noor '14 

Tausif spent Winter 2013 in Dhaka, Bangladesh volunteering for the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) doing research on the education system, assessing the content of Computer Aided Learning (CAL) materials.

Mary Scott Cain '14

Mary Scott spent Winter 2013 interning with the Georgia-based Chalmers Center for Economic Development, and spent time in West Africa researching the impact of mobile banking on developing economies.

Anani Sawadogo '14

Anani spent Summer 2012 in Burkina Faso, organizing and teaching a summer camp on web design and entrepreneurship under the supervision of the International School of Ouagadougou.

Charles Governali '12

Charlie spent Summer 2012 with the Natural Capital Project in Palo Alto, CA, helping to improve a spatially explicit model of biodiversity. 

Jake Epstein '13

Jake spent Winter 2012 in Kathmandu working as a computer technology development intern with the NGO Volunteers Initiative Nepal (VIN).

Robert Szypko '12

Robert spent Summer 2011 in Boston working for Partners' in Health on their Global Health Delivery Project's online platform.

Lauren Rosenbaum '11

Lauren spent Summer 2010 working with the peer-to-peer microloan non-profit Zidisha in Masai Mara.

Emma Smithayer '12

Emma worked with the One Laptop Per Child program in Uruguay during Spring 2010.

Parker Phinney '12

During Winter 2010, Parker worked in Philadelphia for OpenHatch, a community website working to help the development of open source software.