School of Computing Graduate Scholars

The SoC is no longer accepting applications for academic year 2024-2025 Graduate Computing Scholars.

The School of Computing (SoC) mission is to position our land grant institution as: a national leader in computing and digital research, education, and engagement; a computational hub for students, faculty, staff, community, and our industry/state/academic partners; a steward, supporter, and developer of digital skills and computational thinking for all. Ensuring the quality, vitality, and diversity of the computing workforce in Wyoming starts with supporting outstanding graduate students who are demonstrating potential early in their computational careers.

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.
Submit a 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!
Provide a current CV. Proposal and CV should be submitted AFTER form completion to uwyo-soc@uwyo.edu.

Award Selection

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