Student Engagement and Opportunities
YouTube Space Lab for High School Students – Call for Submissions
Submission Deadline – December 7, 2011
YouTube Space Lab is a worldwide educational initiative that challenges 14-18 year-old students to design a science experiment that can be performed in space. The two winning experiments will be conducted aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and live streamed on YouTube. A prestigious panel of scientists, astronauts, and educators, including renowned professor Stephen Hawking, will judge the entries with input from the YouTube community. Students may submit in two age categories, 14-16 years old and 17-18 years old, either alone or in groups of up to three. For more information and for submission guidelines, please visit http://www.youtube.com/spacelab?feature=inp-pr-space.
Summer Research Opportunities at Your Fingertips
A great summer research opportunity search site is offered through the Institute for Broadening Participation, Pathways to Science. Tips on effective search techniques include browse all, level of study, institution and geographic location. For more information, please visit
http://www.pathwaystoscience.org/programs.asp?descriptorhub=SummerResearch_Summer%20Research%20Opportunity
Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
Application Deadline – January 10, 2012
This is an exciting opportunity for doctoral students to earn up to four years of financial support along with outstanding benefits and opportunities while pursuing degrees in fields of study that utilize high performance computing technology to solve complex problems in science and engineering. Benefits of the fellowship include a $38,000 yearly salary, payment of all tuition and fees, a 12-week research practicum at a DOE Laboratory and additional incentives. For more information and to access the online application, please visit http://www.krellinst.org/csgf/.
Rice University Leadership Alliance Summer Research Early Identification Program (SR-EIP)
Application Deadline – February 1, 2012
The Leadership Alliance offers a summer research experience for undergraduates who would like to work eight to ten weeks under the guidance of a faculty or research mentor at a participating institution. Research experiences are available in all academic disciplines. For more information, please visit http://www.theleadershipalliance.org/Programs/SummerResearch/ResearchExperiences/tabid/244/Default.aspx.
Summer Research Opportunities Program
Sponsored by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation
Application Deadline – February 10, 2012
The Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) is a gateway to graduate education at CIC universities. The goal of the program is to increase the number of underrepresented students who pursue graduate study and research careers. SROP helps prepare undergraduates for graduate study through intensive research experiences with faculty mentors and enrichment activities.
For more information, please visit http://www.cic.net/Home/Students/SROP/Home.aspx.
NASA SEEKS SPACE TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP APPLICANTS
NASA is seeking applications from graduate students for the agency's second class of Space Technology Research Fellowships. Applications will be accepted from accredited U.S. universities on behalf of graduate students interested in performing space technology research beginning in fall 2012. The fellowships will sponsor U.S. graduate student researchers who show significant potential to contribute to NASA's strategic space technology objectives through their studies. Sponsored by NASA's Office of the Chief Technologist and the Space Technology Program, the fellowships' continuing goal is to provide the nation with a pipeline of highly skilled engineers and technologists to improve America's technological competitiveness. For more information and application guidelines, please visit http://go.usa.gov/9SL.
UNCF/ Merck Undergraduate Science Research Scholarship Awards
These awards are intended to help African American undergraduate students who are interested in science to further their science education and potentially pursue science and engineering careers. The UNCF /Merck awards provide tuition support and opportunities for research experience in a state-of-the-art research facility. At least 15 scholarship awards will be granted in 2012. Each award provides up to $30,000 in support, which includes up to $25,000 towards tuition, room and board, and billable fees. For more information, and eligibility requirements please visit http://umsi.uncf.org/ScholarshipsInternshipsFellowships/tabid/151/Default.aspx#Undergraduate.
UNCF /Merck Graduate Science Research Dissertation Fellowships
These awards will help African American graduate students complete coursework, conduct research, and prepare the dissertation required for a doctoral degree in the areas of life or physical sciences and engineering. At least 12 dissertation fellowships will be awarded in 2012. Each fellowship provides up to a maximum of $53,500 in support, which includes a stipend of up to $43,500 for research needs. For more information and eligibility requirements, please visit http://umsi.uncf.org/ScholarshipsInternshipsFellowships/tabid/151/Default.aspx#Graduate.
New Mexico Consortium Summer Institute
June 4-August 3, 2012 – Los Alamos, New Mexico
The Computer System, Cluster, and Networking Summer Institute (CSCNSI) is a focused technical enrichment program targeting third-year college undergraduate students currently engaged in a computer science, computer engineering, or similar major. The program emphasizes practical skill development in setting up, configuring, administering, testing, monitoring, and scheduling computer systems, supercomputer clusters, and computer networks through a variety of activities including hands-on technical training, lectures, professional development seminars, and tours of LANL facilities. For more information, including program and application guidelines, please visit http://www.newmexicoconsortium.org/probe/summer.
Faculty Opportunities
NASA Human Exploration and Operations Faculty Fellowships Available
Application Deadline – January 9, 2012
NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate (HEO) is accepting applications for summer 2012 faculty fellowships. The purpose of these fellowship opportunities is to prepare faculty members to enable their students to complete senior design projects with potential contribution to NASA Exploration objectives. The faculty will work for a continuous period of six (6) to twelve (12) weeks at a NASA field center on a selected Exploration project and incorporate the Exploration project into an existing senior design course or capstone course at their university during the following academic year. The Exploration project must be selected from the approved list. Both the list and an application can be found at http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/centers/kennedy/technology/ExplorationFacultyFellowshipProject.html. Questions can be directed to Bethanné Hull at bethanne.hull@nasa.gov.
NSF Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Call for Proposals
Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time): February 01, 2012
February 1, Annually Thereafter
August 01, 2012
August 1, Annually Thereafter
STS considers proposals for scientific research into the interface between science (including engineering) or technology, and society. STS researchers use diverse methods including social science, historical, and philosophical methods. Successful proposals will be transferrable (i.e., generate results that provide insights for other scientific contexts that are suitably similar). They will produce outcomes that address pertinent problems and issues at the interface of science, technology and society, such as those having to do with practices and assumptions, ethics, values, governance, and policy. For more information, please visit http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12509/nsf12509.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25 WT.mc_ev=click.
2012 Glenn Faculty Fellowship Now Open
Application Deadline – February 12, 2012
NASA John Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio is accepting applications from full-time, qualified STEM faculty in accredited US colleges and universities for the summer 2012 NASA Glenn Faculty Fellowship Program (NGFFP). The ten-week fellowship starts on Monday, June 4, 2012 and ends on Friday, August 10, 2012. The opportunity is open to US citizens. Underrepresented faculty at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) are highly encouraged to apply. For more information and to apply, please visit http://rt.grc.nasa.gov/university-affairs/.
NSF-SPONSORED INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL THINKING THROUGH COMPUTING AND MUSIC
June 21-22, 2012 – Lowell, Massachusetts
The University of Massachusetts, Lowell Departments of Music and Computer Science are pleased to offer our first NSF-sponsored interdisciplinary Performamatics workshop on Computational Thinking through Computing and Music. The purpose of this workshop is to share our techniques and materials and to provide an environment in which other pairs of professors can work together to develop interdisciplinary relationships and materials of their own to use in courses at their home institutions. Workshop participants are required to attend in interdisciplinary pairs, preferably from the same institution. This will ensure that the workshop itself models interdisciplinary collaboration and produces outcomes that connect directly to participants' own situations. Professors and instructors from 2- and 4-year colleges are encouraged to attend. For more information and to apply, please visit http://teaching.cs.uml.edu/~heines/TUES/ProjectHome.jsp.
Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM)
The Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) Program seeks to identify outstanding mentoring efforts that enhance the participation and retention of individuals (including persons with disabilities, women and minorities) who might not otherwise have considered or had access to opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The awardees serve as leaders in the national effort to develop fully the nation's human resources in STEM. For more information, including nomination deadlines, please visit http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5473.
