Graduate Computing Scholars

Award

• Computing Fellowships include a Graduate Assistant (GA) stipend to cover the 9-month academic year at the current standard UW Graduate Education rate.
• Tuition, fees, and health insurance will be automatically covered for fellowship recipients.
• The award will commence at the beginning of the fall semester of the award cycle.

 

Eligibility

• Students must be enrolled and in good standing at the University of Wyoming.
• Students must be part of a University of Wyoming Ph.D. or Master's program
• Students must be pursuing a research project where innovative computing and/or the advancement of computing plays a first-class role in that research.
• Students in all disciplines are eligible and encouraged to apply: Computing should be understood to include computational science, data science, informatics, digital humanities, digital exhibition etc, and it is understood that computing will look different in these different fields!

 

Expectations

SoC Graduate Computing Fellows are expected to:

• Attend monthly meetings to describe the progress of their research.
• Contribute to the growth and development of the interdisciplinary SoC research community. In addition to engaging in SoC events with other fellows, faculty, and research scientists, fellows will be invited to contribute effort to specific SoC projects. The total commitment will not exceed 3-5 hours a week.
• Provide an SoC Speaker Series presentation lightening talk on your research and overall experience in the program.
• Submit a two-page final report summarizing your completed research and experience as a School of Computing Fellow no later than June 30.

 

Application

• Complete the application form, which provides overview information to the selection committee and contact information for the required two UW faculty references.
  • Upload proposal, no more than two pages, outlining your major research question, research approach and methodology, the potential impact/use/innovation of computing of the project, and measures for success. Proposals should be broadly understandable, please do not use complicated, discipline specific jargon!
  • Upload a current CV.

 

Award Selection

Proposals will be reviewed by an interdisciplinary faculty committee using the review criteria

• Quality of proposal and research plan
• Importance of computing in the research plan
• Innovation in the use of computing, and/or the advancement of computing

Funding decisions will also consider available funding, disciplinary diversity, and potential of connection to existing UW or SoC strategic initiatives or centers, or potential to help catalyze activities in a domain not yet well represented.

 

Important Dates

• Call for Proposals: February 10
• Deadline for Proposals: February 28
• Target for Announcing Decisions: March 21

 

Questions 

Please send any questions to uwyo-soc@uwyo.edu or call 307-766-5299.

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