BSOE Graduate Student Newsletter
Announcements
Winter 2022 University Deadlines
Please note the following upcoming university deadlines, and ALWAYS check the Academic and Administrative Calendar for important dates and deadlines. Bookmark this year's Academic and Administrative Calendar and refer to it regularly.
Monday, January 10th Graduate Student Enrollment & Fee Payment
If you have not paid your registration fees or enrolled in the minimum number of courses by this date, you will be charged a $50 late fee. Please keep in mind that pending aid (Fellowship, GSR, TA) will not credit your account until you are enrolled in at least 5 units.
Monday, January 10th Graduate Student Part-Time Status
This is the deadline to apply for reduced course load and fees. Part-time status forms must be approved/signed by your faculty advisor and submitted to the BSOE Graduate Advising office by the posted deadline. Part-time application forms are available on the Graduate Division's website.
Thursday, January 13th Deadline To Apply For Degree
If you plan to complete your MS or PhD this quarter (Winter 2022), the degree application needs to be submitted to BSOE Graduate Advising office. This is also the deadline to pay for filing fee, if applicable. More guidelines for graduating are available on the Graduate Advising website.
Monday, January 24th Deadline to Add/Drop/Swap Courses
This is your last day to add, drop and swap courses. You will not be able to drop or withdraw from courses after this deadline has passed. If you are enrolled in a placeholder class, you MUST drop it by this deadline. More information on how to add, drop, and swap classes is available on the registrar website.
Friday, March 4th Grade Option
This is your last day to change your grading option for any courses you are enrolled in.
IMPORTANT: The system defaults to Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading. Instructions for how to change your grading option to letter grades (ABC) can be found here.
Friday, March 4th Late Add with Fee Deadline
The Add by Petition form requires the signatures of both the instructor and the department adviser and needs to be submitted to the Office of the Registrar.
Friday, March 18th Leave of Absence Winter Deadline
Deadline to petition for leave of absence (LOA) beginning the next quarter. LOA forms must be approved/signed by your faculty advisor and submitted to the BSOE Graduate Advising office by the posted deadline. LOA application forms are available on the Graduate Division's website.
Darrell and Elaine Long Prize in Experimental Engineering Nomination Form
The Darrell and Elaine Long Prize in Experimental Engineering will be awarded annually to the student who produces the best PhD dissertation in experimental engineering. To qualify for the Long Prize, dissertations must include results that are amenable to experimental confirmation; the prize is not intended to recognize purely theoretical work. A committee of experimentalist faculty will evaluate nominations and determine the recipient.
Darrell Long is a Distinguished Professor of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering, and inaugural holder of the Kumar Malavalli Endowed Chair in Storage Systems Research. He is inaugural Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Letters of the Computer Society, and Editor-in-Chief, emeritus, of the ACM Transactions on Storage. In 2002, he was the founder of the Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), one of the most prestigious venues in the computer data storage field. Professor Long’s research interests include computer data storage, operating systems, distributed computing, and computer security. He met his wife Elaine when they were children in elementary school, and they married in 2016 to share their golden years.
We are seeking nominations of graduating PhD students for the 2022 Darrell and Elaine Long Prize in Experimental Engineering. This endowment, which will continue to grow and offer prizes moving forward, has an expected award of $1684 this year.
This award is eligible to students who:
- are graduating with a PhD in the 2021-2022 academic year
- have a significant experimental component to their research
- are in any academic department or program
Each department can submit up to 2 nominations. Please include:
- a nomination letter from a faculty member
- the student's CV
- the PhD thesis abstract
Deadline to Apply: Friday, March 11, 2022
UC Love Data Week workshops and call for proposals
These are data-focused online workshops, talks, and presentations for February 14-18, 2022 from a variety of UC campuses. Please encourage your students to take a look; lots of free skill building opportunities here from across the UC System.
Additionally there is a !CALL FOR PROPOSALS! This year Love Data Week will include a session of (remote) lightning talks from students on Friday Feb 18th, 2022. Any UC student working on a research or personal project is eligible to participate. This is a great opportunity to share your projects and practice your presentation skills! The deadline is January 28 (this Friday!) which is short notice, but I wanted to give everyone here the chance to apply regardless. Talks are intended to highlight your “journey with data” in three slides over three minutes. Proposals will be reviewed for (1) appropriateness and relevance of topic to Love Data Week, (2) organization and clarity of proposal, and (3) creativity. Follow the link to apply: https://bit.ly/
Lunar New Year Social in Santa Clara
Greetings International Graduate Students,
As we begin to return to in-person events, our team would like to invite you to our Lunar New Year Social that will take place on Saturday, February 5 starting at 12:00 noon at Bracher Park in Santa Clara, near the UCSC Silicon Valley Campus.
Join us and fellow international graduate students as we celebrate the Year of the Tiger. We will have Lunar New Year themed food provided and space outside to connect with each other. Please register using the link above to ensure that we have enough food ordered for the event.
We are cautiously optimistic that we'll be able to host this event and connect with our international slugs that may live over-the-hill in the South Bay. For more information on Lunar New Year events that are taking place at UCSC, check out our website here. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to us.
Cheers!
The Global Programming Team
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/
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)