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Program Spotlight: Grand Challenges Scholars Program

Are you looking to be challenged? Do you want to help solve the biggest problems we face in the 21st century? Are you interested in interdisciplinary learning?

If so, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Grand Challenges Scholars Program (GCSP) may be a great opportunity for you!

Grand Challenges Scholars Program
While the program was inspired by the NAE, each university that adopts its own GCSP works independently, allowing the students to address the challenges as they best see fit.

In order to be a Grand Challenges Scholar, you must achieve 5 competencies: multidisciplinary, multicultural, social consciousness, talent, and viable business and entrepreneurship. Students who choose to participate in GCSP will work with an advisor to create a customized plan of study to achieve these competencies.

The Challenges

There are 14 unique challenges that students can choose to tackle:

  • Advance personalized learning
  • Make solar energy economical
  • Enhance virtual reality
  • Reverse-engineer the brain
  • Engineer better medicines
  • Advance health informatics
  • Restore and improve urban infrastructure
  • Secure cyberspace
  • Provide access to clean water
  • Provide energy from fusion
  • Prevent nuclear terror
  • Manage the nitrogen cycle
  • Develop carbon sequestration methods
  • Engineer the tools of scientific discovery

This year’s GCSP graduates have received recognition and can be found on the NAE website.

GCSP is open to any and all students at Miami. To learn more about our program, please visit the Grand Challenges Scholars Program website.