Until January 15, 2012 EWB-USA will set out to raise $500,000 in donations. To help us reach our campaign goal of $500,000, CH2M HILL, AECOM, CDM and the EWB-USA Board of Directors have provided $100,000 in matching funds. This holiday season, your donation will have twice the impact! Every dollar donated will be matched, with 50% of the match going to the chapter and 50% going to EWB-USA. The chapter with the most total donations (not including matching funds) and the chapter with the most donors will also receive an additional $5,000.

Go to to help our EWB chapter out!

Don’t forget to enter in New York and Columbia University Chapter! (see below)

Remember, no donation is too small!
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Thanks in advance for your generosity

Unfortunately, while we can not offer subsidized registration rates for NERW unless you are a volunteer

Don’t miss out on EWB-USA Executive Director , Cathy Leslie’s, along with Nobel Laureate, Joseph Stiglitz’s, Keynote Addresses. There are over 40 enthusiastic session speakers who want to impart their experience in engineering and working abroad, and a career fair boasting over 15 tables of organizations ranging from ASCE, Teach for America, and Pratt & Whitney.

Contact cu-ewb@columbia.edu for any other general questions!

Ghana: Wednesday @ 10 PM in 644 Mudd
Morocco: Monday @ 9:30 PM, 633 Mudd
Uganda: Friday @ 5:30 PM in 834 Mudd

Hope to see ya’ll there!

EWB-USA CU will be having its official meet and greet this WEDNESDAY (Sept 14) in MUDD 833 from 8:30 to 9:30

Come here about our 3 programs, our summer travels, and easy and exciting ways that you can get involved as either a new student or a returning undergrad

Remember, YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE AN ENGINEER

Wait What?!

The 2011 Millennium Campus Conference (held at Harvard) will be featuring four wonderful keynote speakers, one of them being the international acclaimed musician, K’naan! and one of the founders of Invisible Children, Jason Russell.

To get the $30 Registration Fee, you have to register by AUGUST 1st HERE!
but wait, if you use the code, MO2011, make that registration only $20

Also to help us organize our trip to Boston, fill out this spreadsheet so we can figure out travel and lodging logistics and such

TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS!

P.S. if you don’t remember K’naan, his hit was featured in this music video

Follow their adventures on their blog!

Mike Escobar, Eric Chen, and Mira Armstrong will be keeping you up to date with their fun and work times

The pioneer trip for the Morocco program has come! The following will be traveling

Kristina Lee
Danielle Rubin
Kevin Ma
Alex Hammerberg
Derek Huang

They will spend the next two weeks forging relationships in Morocco for years to come. We wish them the best of luck

These brave, beautiful, and daring folks include:

Rebecca Ciez
Bethany Schneider
Harrison Chiu
Allison Duh
Rohan Bhandari
David Oh

Follow their adventures and stalk their biographies on their blog! Updated every time they are in contact with internet and featuring a comment box so you can leave them some love

KIRAI EWBCU BLOG – “We Are EWB CU”

So today we met at the Emirates checkin place at JFK and got in all great. It was all nice and smooth until somebody lost his envelope of cash and the security had to make sure that the envelope was his by finding another person of the same ethnicity who could verify that the envelope was indeed the secret team member’s. Anyways, then we chilled for a few hours, after which we got on the plane. EMIRATES IS SO NICE. Great service, highly suggested/recommended for future flights. Food was pretty good and they had tons of great movies to pick from and so we didn’t get bored since we were either sleeping or watching a movie, although we should’ve been reading more on our reports to know what we’re doing.

After we got off, the airport looked like a casino with hundreds of tall/fancy columns. Fancy, modern airport. Then we met up with Harrison who had been roaming the streets of Dubai by himself like a boss for 12 hours and we met up with Rohan’s family who so graciously took us around Dubai for hours and bought us dinner. We got to see some landmarks like:

The Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world

The Palm & The Atlantis, artificial island and the crazy hotel (Atlantis) on it

Burj Al Arab, the 7-star hotel that’s literally jutting out of the mainland into the sea; crazy expensive, you need to pay (apparently about 500 bux) to just get in the hotel and look around, not even to get a room

So those were super fun. Lastly, we went to this bomb Arabic food place where we got yummy food. One of the best parts was definitely the pita bread, which we ate with legit hummus and olive oil… priceless.

Finally, we got back to Rohan’s cousin’s place, where we are writing this blog now. On the way, basically everyone passed out in the cars from the massive food coma & jet lag.

Overall, this was an AWESOME beginning to an exciting trip and SPECIAL THANKS TO ROHAN’S FAMILY for all of the hospitality.

Here are some pictures from today:

Keep checking! Much more news to come!