Description:

A once-in-a-lifetime $9,000 grant to spend the summer travelling the world, researching a topic of your choice.

ELIGIBILITY:

Applicants must be full-time Northwestern juniors who will be returning to campus next year. NU students with senior standing may apply only if they will be returning to Northwestern as full-time undergraduates for the entire academic year following the summer circumnavigation.
Students who will be studying abroad or otherwise away from campus during the winter/spring before the trip or during the academic year following the trip are not eligible.
Applicants must be available for an in-person interview on campus in January 2018. Exact date to be determined.
Students in any discipline may apply. However, the national office of the Circumnavigators Club Foundation has requested no proposals in the following areas: 1) global environmental and conservation issues, 2) microfinance and microcredit, and 3) alternative energy and rural electrification.