About the Event
The Center for Emerging Markets (CEM) at Northeastern University will celebrate the culmination of three years of its Srinivasan Family Awards student grant program with a reception attended by past student and alumni awardees, as well as faculty and staff partners.
Supported by a generous gift from Venkat and Pratima Srinivasan, the Srinivasan Family Awards program allows undergraduate and graduate students at Northeastern University to conduct research, create a startup, take part in a service-learning project, organize a conference, or pursue another innovative project that addresses pressing problems in one or more emerging markets.
Since the program began in 2022, CEM has provided awards to 50 students pursuing 33 different projects impacting emerging markets around the world, with students representing nearly every college and school at Northeastern.
About the Srinivasan Family Awards
The Center for Emerging Markets invites grant proposals from undergraduate and graduate students and clubs enrolled in full-time programs at Northeastern University to create a startup, take part in a service-learning project, present or publish research, organize a conference, or pursue another innovative project that addresses pressing problems in one or more emerging markets around the world in a novel and/or innovative way.
CEM defines an “emerging market” as any nation with an economy that is transitioning from a low-income, less developed, often pre-industrial state towards one with a higher standard of living. About 80% of the world's nations are considered emerging markets. Countries NOT considered emerging markets include the United States, Canada, Japan, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, and most Western European nations.
The proposed project may focus on both industrialized nations and emerging markets, but the latter should be an important part of the project.
