[QSB-grads] Fwd: REMINDER: (NSF NRT-IGE)- APPLICATION- Interdisciplinary Computational Graduate Education

[David Ardell]

Dear QSB Graduate students —

Dean Zatz would like to extend the warmest invitation to all first-year students to please apply to the Interdisciplinary Computational Graduate Education (ICGE) Training Program.  In order to increase the diversity of students participating in the program Dean Zatz and the committee are accepting applications after their original deadline which was last week. Dean Zatz, who is also director of the ICGE program, assured the Graduate Chairs in our meeting yesterday that additional fellowships will be made available with the express purpose of increasing the contributions to diversity among fellow trainees. More info below or please inquire to Dean Zatz or any of the faculty listed below!

Director Ramesh Balasubramaniam would like to gently remind about their training opportunity deadline of November 18 for the Intelligent and Adaptive Systems Training Program (see more at http://nrt-ias.org).

These are both prestigious National Science Foundation fellowships and great opportunities. I heartily encourage you to apply to them!

Thank you.

Sincerely
Dave

Dear First Year Doctoral Students,
I am writing to invite you to participate in the NSF funded National Research Training: Innovations in Graduate Education, “Interdisciplinary Computational Graduate Education (ICGE).” Applications will be accepted until 12:00 noon Monday, November 7.  First year doctoral students in all graduate programs with interests in the computational sciences are encouraged to apply.

Please note we recognize that two NRT programs at UC Merced are accepting applications. Acceptance in one program does not preclude acceptance in the other—they are organized such that interested students may easily participate in both.
The program is designed to provide the following benefits to graduate students:
·      Experience working on innovative projects with interdisciplinary teams
·      Networking with and mentorshipfrom partners from the National Laboratories, NASA, and industry and faculty from multiple disciplines.
·      Instruction in project management and teamwork pertaining to managing knowledge-intensive projects
·      Fundamental research skills including writing scientific papers, literature reviews, scientific presentation, and research ethics
·      Computational skills including techniques for managing data, coding, data structures, visualization, and analytic techniques
·      Career preparation to work in and with industry and the National Labs as well as the academy
In addition, the program is designed to contribute to greater diversity within the computational sciences through increased retention and degree completion, especially for members of underrepresented groups and first-generation doctoral students.
Participating students will be expected to attend a program launch Dec. 14 and Dec 16, which will include our partners from industry, the National Labs and NASA.  Throughout the spring semester, participants will meet every Friday afternoon. These sessions will be devoted to hands-on experience working on interdisciplinary project teams and faculty-led instructional modules on interactive programming, the Linux operating system and shell scripting, compiled programming, high performance clusters and remote supercomputers, team science and project management, and practices and habits of successful graduate students in the interdisciplinary computational sciences.
Participants will receive travel funds to visit with the National Labs, NASA and/or industry partners and may receive funding to present their research at professional conferences. Participants may also be eligible for summer internships with partner organizations.
To apply:
1.     Complete the attached short application by 12 noon, Monday, November 7 and email it to graddean at ucmerced.edu<mailto:graddean at ucmerced.edu>.
2.     Ask your advisor/mentor/graduate program chair to send a letter of endorsement, recognizing that if accepted into the program you are committing to regular attendance on Friday afternoons throughout the spring semester.
Feel free to contact any of the participating faculty with any questions you may have —stop by our offices or email us. We really do want to hear from you! Faculty include:

·      Prof. Michael Colvin, Chemistry & Chemical Biology & QSB
·      Prof. Sayantani Ghosh, Physics & BEST
·      Prof. Arnold Kim, Applied Mathematics
·      Prof. Paul Maglio, Cognitive & Info. Sciences & Electrical Engineering &Computer Science
·      Prof. Ashlie Martini, Mechanical Engineering & BEST
·      Prof. Juan C. Meza, Applied Mathematics and Dean, SNS
·      Prof. Suzanne Sindi, Applied Mathematics, Cognitive & Information Sciences, & QSB
·      Prof. Mukesh Singhal, Electical Engineering and Computer Science
·      Prof. Michael Spivey, Cognitive & Information Sciences
·      Prof. Marjorie Zatz, Sociology and Graduate Dean
We look forward to seeing your application!
Yours,
Marjorie S. Zatz, Ph.D.
Vice Provost and Graduate Dean
Professor of Sociology
Graduate Division
University of California, Merced
5200 N. Lake Rd.
Merced CA 95343

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David H. Ardell
Associate Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
Chair, Quantitative and Systems Biology Program
University of California, Merced, CA 95343
office:SE1 228 ; office phone: 2092282953 ; web: http://davidardell.org
Please contact me by email at dardell at ucmerced.edu<mailto:dardell at ucmerced.edu>



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