The Carroll L. Wilson Award is a grant for up to $7,000* awarded to graduate students, in any MIT department, who wish to pursue exciting and challenging opportunities abroad.

The aim of the Wilson awards is to enable MIT graduate students to explore important societal problems or opportunities with international dimensions. Ideally, the explorations will focus on ways to contribute to the alleviation of such problems or on ways to seize opportunities to contribute to the host countries or the world as a whole.

The award helps students spend a minimum of 4 weeks in a foreign country, pursuing a project that would have excited the interest and enthusiasm of Wilson himself. Projects that enable applicants to explore new and original ideas and that have the potential to lead them into new areas of professional and career interests are particularly encouraged. These awards have been established as a memorial to the late Carroll L. Wilson ('32) in honor of his career achievements and long-standing legacy.

Three to five awards* are awarded each year, after a competitive evaluation of proposals by the Carroll Wilson Award Selection Committee.

* Please note: These awards are considered taxable income.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
to the winners of the 2009 Carroll L. Wilson Awards:

Roberto Guerrero Compean, "Green Nemesis or Environmental Fiasco? The Antagonistic Coexistence of Two Biofuels Technologies in Brazil."

Audubon Dougherty, "Wireless Networks in Rural Peru: Documenting ICT Entrepreneurship."

Taariq Lewis, "Stuck in the Basin: A Sustainability Study of Trinidad and Tobago's Countrywide Government Entrepreneurship Policy Programs, NEDCO and ETIIC."

Graham Denyer Willis, "Protector or Protagonist? Violence, the State and Armed Groups in Sao Paulo, Brazil."
Sarah Zukerman, "Guns, Campaigns or Bankruptcy: Disentangling the Determinants of Armed Organizations' Post-War Trajectories."

Past Carroll Wilson Award Recipients and Projects