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[ELISS Penn]

Dear Graduate and Professional Students at UPenn,

This past fall, you participated in an online signature drive in support of a new professional development program for graduate and professional students who are eager to contribute to solutions to real-world problems. We submitted enough signatures to earn Penn an invitation to become one of only four founding partner campuses for this competitive, national program.

Emerging Leaders in Science and Society (ELISS) is now recruiting graduate and professional student volunteers from ALL fields - including professional programs like law and medicine, natural and social sciences, humanities, engineering, and the arts - for this competitive (2-5 fellows per campus), extra-curricular (3-5 hours per week), year-long (Jan – Dec 2014) experience. To be eligible, you must be enrolled in a graduate or professional program through at least the end of 2014 and complete a short pre-application by June 14, 2013. See our website for more information and to apply: www.aaas.org/eliss.

ELISS fellows will collaborate with students from other campuses and at home to gather expertise from your communities to illuminate the causes and potential courses of action to address a societal challenge in one of our theme areas: Energy & Environment or Health & Wellbeing. Fellows will create an online resource; organize events in their home communities; and a final briefing in Washington D.C. In return, fellows will gain leadership skills, join a diverse and dynamic professional network, and identify opportunities to contribute to society throughout their professional and civic lives. ELISS will provide training, tools, mentors, and funds to support fellows’ initiatives and leadership development.

ELISS is hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which publishes Science magazine, and supported in part by Penn’s Office of the Vice Provost for Education and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (GAPSA). Please help us spread the word to graduate and professional students across campus, and join the Penn ELISS google group to participate in an online exchange with other student leaders at Penn who are eager to change the world: eliss...@googlegroups.com. If you have any questions, please email us at Pe...@elissfellows.org.

See our website for more information: www.aaas.org/eliss. If you are not eligible to apply for ELISS, but would like to contribute to the program, please fill out this volunteer interest survey.

Sincerely,

Katie Reuther and Samantha White

ELISS Liaisons to UPenn