MFA in Design for Social Innovation – Call for Applications

Design for Social Innovation at School of Visual Arts in New York is looking for a diverse cohort of 25 students for its new two year program. You can be a designer, or anyone who is a creative, visual thinker looking for deep experience and immersion and a path to a career as a leader in this exciting new field.

Applicants from a variety of backgrounds, experience and interests are encouraged to apply, including fine arts; graphic, new media and product design; technology; business; science; engineering; social science and economics.

Learn more by visiting http://www.yipekenya.org/MFA.html

2012 Thiel Fellowships for Youth Innovators – Call for Applications

The future will not take care of itself. Global prosperity is not inevitable. The world will only get better if visionary people are creative and relentless about solving hard problems.

The 2011 class of Thiel Fellows includes 24 people who are tackling breakthroughs in hardware and robotics, making energy plentiful, making markets more effective, challenging the notion that there is only one way to get an education, and extending the human lifespan. Several of them have already launched companies, secured financing, and won prestigious awards. As they're demonstrating, you don't need college to invent the future.

If you're under twenty and love science or technology, consider joining the 2012 class of fellows.

Read more http://www.yipekenya.org/Thiel.htm