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What can happen when students use design to create social impact in their communities? Well, apparently a lot, including the possibility of three students winning $1,000 each. In October 2008, about a dozen Northwestern University engineering and design students attended a brainstorming session...

Traveling the world and making a difference sounds appealing to most of us, but may seem financially out of reach. There are myriad "trips with a purpose" offered throughout the year from secular to non-secular, and mission-based to the purely educational covering almost every cause under the sun....

Nowadays, an Icelandic road trip is both unique and affordable to a good many college students. Though Iceland once had a reputation as one of the priciest European countries, since the island's bankruptcy in 2008, the dollar goes much further in Iceland now than in most of Europe. As the closest...