McBride Honors Program' Students Donate Awards to Start Washington D.C. Fellowship

摘要

When McBride Honors Program seniors Bryan Carruthers, Nathan Hancock and Eirik Pyhtila spent time in Brazil and Washington D.C. studying public policy last spring, they noticed that there were very few policy interns with engineering backgrounds. Along with the rest of their class, they suspected that this was because public policy internships are typically unpaid, whereas most engineering students can secure paid summer internships in industry. To remedy this situation, the McBride students decided to create a paid public internship for Mines students. When Eirik and Bryan found out they would both be receiving the McBride Philipose Outstanding Senior award, they immediately pledged their 500 dollars awards toward establishing the internship fund. Nathan, the recipient of Outstanding Graduating Senior award in Geophysical Engineering, also jumped on board, pledging his 500 dollars award as well.