BSOE Graduate Student Newsletter
Announcements
AERA-NSF Grants Program
Proposal Deadline: January 25, 2022
The AERA-NSF Grants Program is currently accepting proposals for both its Dissertation and Research Grants. With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Program provides dissertation grants to graduate students and small research grants to doctoral level scholars using large-scale data sets in their research.
The AERA-NSF Grants Program emphasizes the advanced statistical analysis of data sets from the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics, NSF, and other federal agencies. The program also supports studies using large-scale international data systems (e.g., PISA, PIRLS, or TIMMS) that benefit from U.S. federal government support. In addition, statewide longitudinal administrative data systems enhanced through federal grants are also eligible for consideration. Proposals are encouraged from a variety of disciplines, such as, but not limited to, education, sociology, economics, psychology, demography, statistics, and psychometrics.
AERA Dissertation Grants
AERA provides dissertation support for advanced doctoral students to undertake doctoral dissertations using data from large-scale data sets. The award provides professional development, training, and networking opportunities for students. The selection process is competitive. AERA-NSF Dissertation Grants are awarded for one-year for an amount of up to $27,500. Please click HERE for more information and to read the Call for Proposals.
AERA Research Grants
AERA provides small grants for faculty members, postdoctoral researchers, and other doctoral-level scholars to undertake quantitative research using data from large-scale data sets. The selection process is competitive. AERA-NSF Research Grants are awarded for up to $35,000 for a maximum of 2-years. Please click HERE for more information and to read the Call for Proposals.
The proposal deadline is Tuesday, January 25, 2022 (11:59PM PT). Please reach out to the AERA-NSF Grants Program via email (grantsprogram@aera.net) or phone (202-238-3200) if you have any questions regarding the program.
Spring 2022 Deadlines for TA Appointments
Applications Due:
Monday, January 31st
Assign/Notify TA:
Friday, February 18th
TA Accept By:
Friday, February 25th
SDSC's HPC/CI Training Series 2022 - Register today!
We are looking to reach out to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as faculty and staff at all UC campuses who may be interested in a training program on High Performance Computing (HPC) and Cyberinfrastructure (CI). This program allows students the opportunity for hands-on experience with SDSC’s latest supercomputer, Expanse.
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MIT CSAIL Postdoctoral Fellowship
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM OPPORTUNITY AT MIT’S COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LAB (CSAIL)
Priority Application Due Date Extended to February 1, 2022*
As part of our continuing commitment to excellence and equity, we at MIT CSAIL are excited to announce our second annual Mentored Opportunity in Research Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (METEOR) to broaden participation in computing and artificial intelligence.
The METEOR fellowship will support exceptional researchers from groups historically underrepresented in the field. They will conduct cutting-edge research as part of a vibrant community, and prepare for careers in academia or industry. Each fellow will be hosted by a research group with synergistic scientific interests and receive research training, mentoring, and guidance from faculty researchers at MIT CSAIL and mentorship from researchers at a partner company.
Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents (green card holders) or DACA recipients and meet one or more of the following criteria:
Member of an ethnic or racial group historically underrepresented in graduate education at MIT (Black/African American, American Indian/Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian or other Native Pacific Islander, Hispanic/Latinx)
Being of a gender or orientation identity historically underrepresented in computer science and artificial intelligence,
including women, trans of any gender, or non-binary
A scholar participating in a fellowship or academic support program vetted by MIT (CSAIL will verify an applicant’s status while pursuing a doctoral degree at a U.S. institution)
First-generation college students who were the first in their families to graduate from a four-year college or university
Experiences overcoming significant challenges in their path toward graduate school -- examples include but are not limited to:
Managing a disability
Veteran status
Single parent
Holding DACA status
Financial hardship as a result of family economic circumstances
As with our 2021 fellows, postdoctoral researchers selected this round will be awarded a one-year funded appointment (renewable for a second year) and will conduct cutting-edge research at MIT CSAIL on computer science and artificial intelligence topics of their choice. `
* Applications may be submitted on a rolling basis, with priority given to those received by February 1, 2022. For more details about this program, eligibility, and the application process, please visit the METEOR program website.
UCSC TAPS Vanpool
The UCSC Vanpool program is accepting UCSC students, faculty, and staff for new and existing vanpool routes. Join one of the UCSC vanpools from Watsonville, Monterey, or Salinas, or form a new group that wants to commute together, save money and enjoy the ride with other UCSC affiliates. Our Monterey and San Jose routes are looking for staff or grad students who want to train to be full-time or part-time van drivers. Find out if you qualify and you could have your fees fully or partially waived. Email vanpool-group@ucsc.edu to take advantage of a free trial to see if vanpooling is for you!
UC HSI Pre Professoriate Fellows CALL
The program’s goal is to enhance faculty pathways for historically underrepresented groups, particularly Chicanx/Latinx, African Americans, American Indians/Native Americans, Filipinx, and Pacific Islanders in all disciplines; women in STEM; and Asian Americans in the humanities and social sciences. The intent of the program is to provide fellowships for domestic historically underrepresented minorities from federally-designated Californi
This UC PPPF is only available to UC doctoral students who are matriculated in academic PhD programs and have advanced to candidacy. Professional students (e.g. M.D., J.D.) are not eligible.
A note regarding students receiving a Master’s en route: if a student did not earn a bachelor’s degree from a California HSI, and was not enrolled in a master’s program at a California HSI, but was awarded a master’s degree en route to the PhD (at a UC HSI), that student should NOT be considered eligible for this fellowship. If a student was enrolled in and completed a master’s degree at a California HSI (including a UC HSI), that student is eligible for the fellowship (regardless of whether or not the student completed a bachelor’s degree at a California HSI). It is incumbent upon the graduate divisions to ensure that this guideline is followed. Beyond being contrary to the spirit of the Initiative, awarding the fellowship to a UC HSI student who earned a master’s en route to a PhD but does not hold a bachelor’s degree from a California HSI creates inequity for UC students, since not all PhD programs award a master’s degree en route.
Eligibility Criteria
· Must be exceptional students (as demonstrated by their research achievements).
· Must have received their bachelor’s or master’s degree (please see Master’s definitions and criteria above) from a California Hispanic Serving Institution (CA HSI)—public or private. Associate degrees from California community colleges do not meet the criteria/eligibility.
· Must have advanced to candidacy prior to being selected for the fellowship.
· Must have letters of support from Faculty Advisor(s) that address the student’s performance and potential as an exceptional academic, and comment on the likelihood that the student will pursue a professoriate path after receiving their PhD.
· Must have a demonstrated record of advancing issues of inclusion, equity, and diversity; actively supporting underrepresented communities; and show commitment to pursuing these efforts throughout their career.
If you know of students who meet the eligibility criteria, please encourage them to apply. Interested students should submit the following materials to Assistant Dean, Stephanie Casher (scasher@ucsc.edu) by Friday, February 18, 2022:
- Letter of application (2 pages maximum) from the nominee/student that speaks to the eligibility criteria and how much fellowship support the student has received to date
- Letters of support from Faculty Advisor(s)
MBARI Summer Internship Program - MBARI
MBARI’s Summer Internship Program provides an opportunity for talented college students (undergraduate and graduate) and educators to work directly with MBARI scientists, engineers and communicators. MBARI’s state-of-the-art facilities and equipment, including research vessels, remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), offer educators and students unique opportunities to collaborate on advanced research and development projects. The program immerses interns in collaborative teams as they learn innovative research and engineering techniques and improve communication skills. Each intern will have an MBARI mentor who will supervise a specific project for a 10-week duration. Interns also serve as peer-mentors to each other.
Applications for the 2022 MBARI internship (June 6 – August 12) will be accepted through February 7, 2022 at 8 am (Pacific).
https://www.mbari.org/
Jobs
Tenure Track SIUE
The Department of Computer Science at Southern Illinois University, have another open tenure-track position that should start in August 2022.
FLYER: Tenure_Track_SIUE.pdf
The University of Oklahoma Gallogly College of Engineering is Hiring!
The University of Oklahoma Gallogly College of Engineering currently
has 28 open faculty positions across all schools in the college. These
positions include tenure track positions in academic schools as well
as ranked renewable term positions to support our lower level
engineering curriculum. We would welcome applications from your
graduating PhD students. Please share this opportunity with them.
Information about The Gallogly College of Engineering (GCoE) at the
University of Oklahoma (OU):
OU is committed to building additional strength in engineering through
recruiting, retention, and research as we work to achieve the
ambitious goals of our strategic plan (http://www.ou.edu/coe/about).
GCoE currently enrolls 3200 undergraduate students and 800 graduate
students; our undergraduate student body is diverse with 29% of our
students reporting their identity as URM and 25% reporting their
identity as women. We seek faculty candidates who are committed to the
values of diversity, equity, and inclusion and who practice those
values in all activities of faculty activity. For more information
about the University of Oklahoma, visit http://soonerway.ou.edu. To
apply for a faculty position, you may use Soonerway and filter by
engineering program, or you may navigate to the link
https://www.ou.edu/coe/about/h
FLYER: Gallogly_Oklahoma_Flyer.pdf
Rice University ECE is Hiring in the Field of Digital Health!
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) is searching for outstanding candidates with research interests in engineering innovations that could transform future healthcare systems. Applicants with a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering or related fields are encouraged to apply.
Rice ECE invites applications for multiple tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in the area of digital health, broadly defined. Specific areas of interest include but are not limited to bio-imaging/sensing, medical imaging,
multi-omics, personalized health, bio-electronics, wearables and point-of-care devices, machine learning for health, AR/VR/visualization for health, and robotics for health. A particular focus will be on research that directly relates to detecting, monitoring, and treating chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, mental health, and neurodegenerative diseases that have an outsized disease burden. Candidates whose work directly addresses issues of equity and access in health are especially encouraged to apply. These areas should not be considered limiting, and any candidate who believes their work directly impacts digital health or at the intersection of health and engineering is encouraged to apply. More experienced senior candidates amid transformative research projects and with particular experience building institutional equity across their fields may also be considered.
We strive for greater representation of women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans in disciplines in which they have historically been underrepresented, and strongly encourage such applicants for these faculty positions.
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor: https://apply.interfolio.com/