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Fulbright US Student Program

There are several of you out there who should consider applying for this, take a look, it’s an incredible opportunity.

Are you currently a junior, senior, graduate or professional student or a recent bachelor’s, master’s or JD graduate looking for a fully-funded abroad experience during the 2014-15 academic year? Consider the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. This program is designed to give students, artists, and other professionals opportunities to pursue research, graduate study or English teaching experience in over 155 nations worldwide.

The application cycle for the 2014-2015 Fulbright U.S. Student competition opened on May 1, 2013. The campus deadline for applications is September 10, 2013.

WHAT IS A U.S. STUDENT FULBRIGHT GRANT?

  • It allows for individually designed study/research or an English Teaching Assistantship. You can propose a project and/or study plan that will take place during one academic year in a country outside the U.S.
  • It provides support for study/research/teaching in a single country. (Limited opportunities exist for traveling to more than one country.) You can meet, work, live with and learn from the people of the host country, sharing daily experiences.
  • It facilitates cultural exchange. Through direct interaction on an individual basis in the classroom, field, home, and in daily tasks, you can gain an appreciation of others’ viewpoints and beliefs, the way they do things, and the way they think.
  • It promotes mutual understanding. Through engagement in the community, you can interact with your hosts on a one-to-one basis in an atmosphere of openness, academic integrity, and intellectual freedom.


INFORMATION SESSIONS

Attend one of the remaining information sessions to learn more about the Fulbright U.S. Student program and how to apply:


ELIGIBILITY

To be eligible, you must be:

  1. A U.S. citizen.  (International students interested in the Fulbright Program must apply through the binational Fulbright Commissions/Foundations or U.S. Embassies. Additional information is available at: http://foreign.fulbrightonline.org/)
  2. A graduating senior (by June 2014) or hold a B.S./B.A. degree, master’s or doctoral degree candidate, or a young professional or artist,
  3. Thinking of studying, teaching or conducting research abroad, and
  4. In good health. (Health conditions in some locations may be of concern and may require preventive measures to protect grantees and their families. In addition, medical facilities may be inadequate or unavailable for existing medical problems; this is the reason behind the requirement for a medical exam and medical clearance for a specific assignment.)


PROGRAM DETAILS

  • Awards grants in all fields of study.
  • Awards approximately 1,500 grants for travel to over 155 countries worldwide.
  • Offers one academic year of study, research, or teaching assistantship experience. Projects may include university course work, independent library or field research, or professional training in the arts.
  • Preference is given to candidates who have not had extensive recent experience abroad (excluding undergraduate study abroad) in the country of application.


FULBRIGHT PROGRAM ADVISERS AT UW:

  • For graduate students or alumni at Seattle or Tacoma:
  • For undergraduate students or alumni at Seattle or Tacoma:
  • UW Bothell students of all levels or alumni:

Please contact the appropriate adviser above if you have questions or concerns. Additional information is available at http://expd.washington.edu/scholarships/search/search-results.html?page_stub=fulbright

May 16, 2013

Reminder: Research Night Tonight!

Research Night is tonigth! Come check out the research our department has been working on and possibly find a project that interests you. This is a great way to get involved with undergraduate research. Join us for refreshments and check out what opportunities await you!

Agenda:
4:30pm – Faculty Speaker: Dan Grossman // EEB 125
5:00pm – Poster Session // CSE Atrium

See you there!

May 9, 2013

ACM Weekly Events Digest 5/6 – 5/10

Overview:
5/9: Madrona Start Up Office Hours
5/9: Research Night

Madrona Start Up Office Hours
5/9; 11:00 – 12:30pm; Atrium

Startup Office Hours is your time to come and discuss anything startup-related. Hakon Verespej, from Madrona Venture Group, will be available.

You are welcome to come and learn more about local startups, talk about a startup idea you have, get feedback on a project you’re working on, have your resume reviewed, or anything else you have on your mind.

Hakon can also be reached at hakon@madrona.com for questions regarding the office hour or anything else he can help with.

Research Night
5/9; 4:30 – 7:30pm; EEB 125/Atrium

Come check out the research our department has been working on and possibly find a project that interests you. This is a great way to get involved with undergraduate research. Refreshments will be served.

Agenda:
4:30pm – Faculty Speaker: Dan Grossman // EEB 125
5:00pm – Poster Session // CSE Atrium

 

May 6, 2013

Research Night 5/9

Research Night is this Thursday, May 9! Come check out the research our department has been working on and possibly find a project that interests you. This is a great way to get involved with undergraduate research. Join us for refreshments and check out what opportunities await you!

Agenda:
4:30pm – Faculty Speaker: Dan Grossman // EEB 125
5:00pm – Poster Session // CSE Atrium

See you there!

May 4, 2013

Paid research project in Earth & Space Sciences

“The ESS group is experimenting with taking advantage of the falling prices of 3D display and computer hardware to develop an immersive visualization system optimized for solving geologic problems. The current IO components of the system would include:

  1. PC workstation with stereo vision capability,
  2. Kinect, and
  3. Data glove (e.g. http://www.vrealities.com/dg5glove.html )

This position would be paid. In addition, we have about a $5k budget to buy additional  hardware (e.g.  see http://www.oculusvr.com/ )

Although the project would start with a project to optimally display 3d geologic structure(s) the ultimate goal of the system would be to move beyond the passive display of spatial-temporal data and emphasize the interactive refinement of complex geologic models. This effort could represent an opportunity for one of your more advanced senior students to act as a ‘consultant’ on the project. He would experience a real world project in the sense that:

  • She would have clients who would view computer programing has a means to an end,
  • Be exposed to different programing environment (e.g.Python),
  • Stretch his CS expertise on problems where the answer is not in the back of the book, and
  • Have to deal with real world trade offs (e.g. buy a bigger monitor and just upgrade an older PC or buy a small monitor and a new PC ).

Past collaborations between geologists with interesting problems and computer scientists have produced interesting results (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=j9JXtTj0mzE  ) in the past and long term this project has the potential to do likewise.

The student should expect to  work under Windows and use the Python programing language.

For more info, contact Gregg, at gregg@hiker.org”

April 3, 2013

Spring directed research in HCDE

Course Opportunity this Spring—HCDE 496/596 (Directed Research: Remotely Assessing the User Experience)

We are looking for CSE and iSchool students to help us develop an open source software toolkit (WebLabUX) that allows web designers to remotely assess the effectiveness of different website designs by measuring users’ behaviors, perceptions, and comprehension when they interact with information online. You can earn course credit while helping us develop our toolkit.

Spring 2013 activities that would be of interest to CSE and iSchool students include:

  • PHP/MySQL coding of backend data collection infrastructure
  • User interface coding (HTML/CSS, JavaScript/JQuery, Drupal theming)
  • Quality assurance testing

Individual students will drive the development and testing of a feature or set of features of the software, under supervision of a senior graduate student and faculty member.

Students can participate in this research group by enrolling for 2-5 credits (graded cr/no cr) in HCDE 496 (for undergraduate students) or HCDE 596 (for graduate students). Students are expected to spend, on average, three hours of effort per credit per week. We will meet weekly on Wednesdays from 3:30-5:00. Interested students should send a short email to Professor Jan Spyridakis (jansp@uw.edu) explaining their interest in the group and suggesting what software development strengths they could contribute to the group.

Thank you,

 

Jan

 

Jan Spyridakis
Professor and Chair
Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering

University of Washington
Box 352315
Seattle, WA 98195
206-685-1557 (fax 206-543-8858)
http://www.hcde.uw.edu/jansp

March 27, 2013

NSF sponsored Undergraduate Research in machine learning at Florida Institute of Technology

This is a summer experience, you could ask if you could start later since our quarter won’t end before it begins.

 

=== THE 2013 AMALTHEA REU PROGRAM ===

 

 

AN OPPORTUNITY FOR A 10-WEEK RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS is available in the area of Machine Learning. The program is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and is offered by the Information Characterization & Exploitation (ICE) Laboratory at Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) in Melbourne, Florida. Machine Learning evolved from Artificial Intelligence and has enjoyed immense growth over the last 30 years. Gradually it has spawned important areas like Pattern Recognition and Detection, Data Mining, Bioinformatics and Computer Vision among others. Nowadays it permeates several aspects of high-tech applications, like automatic target recognition, biometric-based identification and stock market prediction, as well as everyday life applications, like voice-driven dialing, optical character recognition and others. The program currently accepts applications for participation. Minorities, women and people with disabilities are especially encouraged to apply.

 

ELIGIBILITY

Without exceptions, applicants must be:

=> Majoring in an Engineering or Science discipline

=> US citizens or permanent residents

=> Undergraduates in good academic standing

 

BENEFITS

=> Exposure to the exciting world of Machine Learning and its applications

=> Participate in a one-week crash course to familiarize yourself with Machine Learning

=> Work with experienced student mentors and experts in the field

=> Participate and contribute to cutting-edge Machine Learning research

=> Take part in visits to our local industry

=> Paid travel and accommodation expenses

=> Receive a competitive stipend for per diem expenses

=> Visit Central Florida venues such as Disney attractions and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

=> Meet new people

=> Make new friends

 

Application Deadline: April 5, 2013

Apply online: http://www.amalthea-reu.org

 

For more information, visit our Web site at www.amalthea-reu.org or contact:

 

Dr. Georgios C. Anagnostopoulos

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Florida Institute of Technology

150 West University Boulevard

Melbourne, Florida 32901-6975

Phone 321-674-7125 | Fax 321-674-8192

E-mail: georgio@fit.edu

 

DISCLAIMER

This announcement was sent in anticipation that the AMALTHEA REU Program is going to be funded via a National Science Foundation grant; the official grant is currently pending.

March 25, 2013

Research Opportunities

Dear Computer Science and Engineering Undergraduates,

I am a Grad student working in Electrical Engineering. Our lab is working on multiple projects (SEAL Website) and would love to have a few Ugrads who are interested in research credits and research experience joining us for Spring quarter. (and hopefully summer).
There are three positions available now 1 in cellphone app development and 2 in Computer Vision. Please keep in mind that for this quarter we are only offering research credits and there will not be any paid positions. However, one of the positions for Computer Vision could potentially lead into a paid position for summer quarter.
Requirements: (not all is required but knowing more than 2 of below is recommended)

1- CSE 455-457, Open CV Computer Vision (*Very important)
2- CSE 333/374 or HIGHLY experienced in C++

3- CSE 373 (*recommended)
3- Experienced in App development (Java or C#)
4- Passionate :)
if you are interested and have more question please contact (below) via email and include your most recent transcript.

 

Sep Makhsous
EEB-217

Thanks

March 14, 2013

Paid Summer Research Internship Opportunity — Deadline Approaching

I represent the Southern California Earthquake Center recruitment for our 2013 undergraduate internship program.  Currently, we are looking for many more geology and computer science applicants for our paid summer internships UseIT and SURE.  We heavily recruit from University of Washington, so we are looking to give more of your geology and computer science students the opportunity to apply before the February 25th priority deadline.  If you could please email our internship information to your undergraduate students it would be much appreciated.

We look forward to having some of your brightest students at our summer internship.

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PAID INTERNSHIPS AVAILABLE for UNDERGRADUATES at the Southern California Earthquake Center at the University of Southern California

The Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) is headquartered at the University of Southern California. Founded in 1991, SCEC has a mission to gather new information about earthquakes in Southern California, integrate this information into a comprehensive and predictive understanding of earthquake phenomena, and communicate this understanding to end-users and the general public in order to increase earthquake awareness, reduce economic losses, and save lives. SCEC is funded by the National Science foundation and the United States Geological Survey.

There are 2 SCEC internship programs offered to undergraduate students who are interested in earth sciences and/or its related fields:

USEIT (Undergraduate Studies in Earthquake Information Technology)

Work as a team to develop technical tools for scientists, educators, and policy makers to communicate important concepts about earthquakes, faults, seismic hazard mitigation, and earthquake risk reduction.

Term & Location: Summer, University of Southern California

Candidates: Undergraduate sophomores, juniors, and seniors from all majors

SURE (Summer Undergraduate Research Experience)

Conduct primary field, laboratory, and/or theoretical research under the supervision of leading scientists in the fields of geophysics, earthquake geology, seismology, tectonics, and geodesy.

Term & Location: Summer, various SCEC institutions

Candidates: Undergraduate juniors and seniors in earth sciences or related fields.

Applications are being accepted now! To apply, visit: http://www.scec.org/education/college/internships/application.php

Priority consideration deadline is Monday, February 25, 2013. Stipend: $5000

To learn more about the specific programs, please visit http://www.scec.org/internships

OR contact Dr. Robert de Groot at degroot@usc.edu or 213-821-6340

We look forward to hearing from you!

Sincerely,

Dr. Robert de Groot
SCEC Internships Team
internships@scec.org



–
SCEC Internships Team

Southern California Earthquake Center
University of Southern California,
3651 Trousdale Parkway, Suite 156
Los Angeles, California, 90089
Website: http://www.scec.org/internships/

February 21, 2013

NSF REU Summer Program

NSF REU Summer Program

Software Safety: Methodology, Practice and Research

May 28 – August 2, 2013

http://paris.utdallas.edu/reu

Application deadline: March 15, 2013

The Computer Science Department at the University of Texas at Dallas
will conduct a ten-week summer research program funded by the National
Science Foundation (NSF) for ten undergraduates from May 28 to August 2,
2013. The focus is on ” software safety ,” however, the technology and
skills learned by the students have general applicability to research
and practice in their future studies.

We provide a close collaboration with our industry partners. In addition
to work on assigned research projects at UTD, field trips to Raytheon,
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, and EDS/HP will be arranged to help
the students better understand how software safety is adopted in practice
for real-life applications. This also gives students a chance to directly
communicate with practitioners to receive a first-hand account of the
work environments and lifestyles in the industry.

We also host special workshops on technical writing and oral presentation
to improve students’ proficiency in preparing and delivering technical
reports. A highlight which provides an overview of our program including
research projects, lectures, and field trips is available at YouTube
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kRIUNotUdQ ). In addition, videos (along
with PowerPoint slide shows) for students’ project presentations as well
as lectures on software safety and technical writing are also posted
( http://paris.utdallas.edu/reu/Video.html ).

Eligible applicants are th ose who have an interest in pursuing a graduate
education, are currently enrolled in an accredited undergraduate institution,
and are U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Incoming seniors will be
given preference, but sophomores and juniors with strong academic records
will also be considered. Special welcome is extended to students from
underrepresented groups (women, minorities, and persons with disabilities)
and academic institutions with limited research opportunities. Selected
participants will receive a scholarship to conduct research with a faculty
member in the Computer Science Department at UTD. Included will be
a $5,000 stipend ($500/week) and a travel reimbursement for those from
outside the Dallas metro area. We also provide housing on campus free to
the REU students.

Eric Wong
Professor & Principal Investigator
Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Dallas

Email ewong@utdallas.edu
Web: http://www.utdallas.edu/~ewong

February 14, 2013

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