School of Computing: Short-Term Visiting Scholars

The School of Computing is pleased to offer grants to support short-term visiting scholars. The grants, up to $10,000 per visitor, may support visiting faculty, post-docs, or advanced graduate students (in the final 2 years of studies). The funds may be used to cover travel, lodging, and meal costs as well as a stipend for the visiting scholar. Visiting scholars may contribute, but are not limited to:

• Planning on incorporating and/or advancing computing in strategic areas such as student mentorship; external funding development; advancing UW strategic initiatives such as Tier 1 Engineering, Science Initiative, Wyoming Innovation Partnership, etc.
• Computing related courses through guest lectures, curriculum development, etc.
• Advancing the role of computing across the university through presentations, workshops, or meetings that address new computing research, new industry/community engagement based on computing.

Proposals

Concise proposals (no more than one page) in PDF format should include the following elements:

1. Faculty name and academic unit
2. Name and CV / Resume of visiting scholar
3. Description of proposed activities

• Summarize the planned contribution of the visiting scholar to advance computing research, learning, and/or engagement at the University of Wyoming
• Describe the visit timeline and plan of work
• What are the envisioned deliverables/outcomes?

Proposals should be submitted to uwyo-soc@uwyo.edu on an ongoing basis until funds are expended.

Budget

Proposals should attach a budget and budget justification for up to $10,000 that must be expended by the end of the fiscal year. Funds can be used for:

• Travel, lodging, and meals for the visiting scholar
• Stipend for visiting scholar