Boren Scholarships and Fellowships

Applications for Boren Scholarships and Fellowships

National fellowship deadline: January 27, 2015
National scholarship deadline: February 4, 2015

Applications for the 2015–2016 David L. Boren Scholarships and Fellowships are now available at www.borenawards.org. Boren Awards provide funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to study in Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East, where they can add international and language components to their education. Undergraduate students can receive up to $20,000 for an academic year’s study abroad, and graduate students can receive up to $30,000 for language study and international research. Recipients must commit to working in the federal government for a minimum of one year. For more information, visit www.borenawards.org or email boren@iie.org.

Independent Studies in Computer Science in Fall 2014

• John Sell: Create Self Study Guide for NoSQL and MPP Databases; supervisor: Dr. Dong
• John Sell: Create Self Study Guide for Data Visualization Tools; supervisor: Dr. Dong
• Peter Anselmo: A Performance Analysis Framework for Web 2.0 Applications; supervisor: Dr. Dimitoglou

Welcome Back

What's new:

Dr. Khalid Lateef and Dr. Steve Penn joined faculty of the Department of Computer Science. Dr. Lateef is an authority in Software Engineer. Dr. Penn has extended expertise in project management. We are very fortunate to have these two accomplished scholar with us.

We added a second section of EAP 500 and IT 518, in response to the large increase of our IT and international students.

We replaced eight computers as part of the three years rotational upgrade plan of HT 319. Also we accquired eight large panel monitors in HT 319.

Dr. Ahmed Salem is named the special assistant to the Graduate Dean on International Affairs. We expect a health growth of our international image under his leadership.

The Master of Science in Computer Science Program at Hood College, a promtional video

Computer Science_Hood Grad from Hood Graduate School on Vimeo.

For our students who are public school teachers, and those parents of girls

Google is sponsoring a project of which a public school teacher can earn $100 for each female students who completed a JavaScript 101 class at online education site Khan Academy.

The introductory JavaScript course is really introductory.  I figure any third grader would be able to complete it in no time.  So, if you are a teacher, take action; if you are a parent of girls, spread the words to their teachers.  This sounds some easy contribution to the classroom.

pluto off campus access

Some students are having issues to access the pluto server from off campus locations.  If you are among them, please send your name (if possible your IP) to Mr. Crum (acrum@cs.hood.edu), our system manager.  It is possible that your ip is blocked somehow, and we need to look into it.

playing LEGO ..

I assume they are looking for an undergraduate student...

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Hi,

My name is Chrétien and I work for a LEGO company called Play-well Tek. I came across the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology while looking through organizations at Hood College. We thought that your students might be interested in a job where you get to play with LEGO.  We are currently looking for a smart and dynamic individual to teach LEGO Engineering classes in the Montgomery county area. Our organization, Play-Well TEKnologies, uses LEGO to teach engineering concepts to students from Kindergarten through 6th grade.  Our mission is to build curiosity in engineering and architecture among future college students. 

We recently posted a job near Hood College, but we thought that the best way to get the word out about this fun job is to contact school's & students directly.  If you know of any your students, in particular, who would be interested in introducing children to the world of engineering, gaining valuable teaching experience, and having fun while doing these things, please forward this email, share it on your listserv, or mention it at your next meeting.  The best part is that you don't have to be an engineer to apply. 

Here is a link to our job posting: 

http://bit.ly/DCLEGOEngineeringJob-Apr2014

Here is a YouTube video that explains what it is like to work at our organization:

http://bit.ly/WorkingAtPlay-WellTEKnologies

If you’d like more information about Play-Well, visit us at www.play-well.org. 

Thanks for your time and have a great day!

-- 

Chrétien "Chre" Mayes
Play-Well TEKnologies | DC Metro Coordinator

chre@play-well.org | 443-305-9825 MD

Senior Projects Presentations Today

Although this is an undergrad event, it may very well trigger some ideas suitable for extended or graduate level research projects.  All are welcome.

Time: 1700-1820
Place: HT 131

Housing for DC interns

The College has set up access to limited amount of low-cost housing near Washington D.C.  I heard they were located in places such as Arlington, Alexandria, etc.  This is open to both undergraduate and graduate students.  My understanding is that you need letters from the internship place and the College to get in.  Contact the College career centre for details.

STUDENT TRAVEL FELLOWSHIPS for 2014 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction (SBP14)

Applications of computation  in social behaviour studies is the trend...

 

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STUDENT TRAVEL FELLOWSHIPS  AVAILABLE

 

The SBP Conference will provide a limited number of student registration/travel awards to assist students to attend the conference. The awards will cover conference registration via reimbursement for local students. For non-local students, the award will cover reimbursement of up to $1000 for registration, travel, and lodging expenses. To apply for the award, students must:

1) Submit your request online using the Travel Scholarship Application Form available at  http://sbp-conference.org/awards/

2) Ask a university faculty member to submit a simple letter of support confirming the applicant's student status to sbp14sta@gmail.com

Incomplete application will not be processed. The awards will be allocated on the basis of student qualifications, need, and available funding. Please note that students do not have to be an author of a paper or a winner of the challenge program of SBP 2014 in order to apply.

Guest lecture 4:00pm HT 316

Dr. Steve Penn is going to give a guest lecture in HT 316 at 4:00pm today (Thursday).  All are welcome; graduate students in CS/IT/MIT programs are encouraged to attend.

Thesis work at the Computational Structural Biology group at the NCI

Computational studies of protein folding, binding, misfolding in disease, structural systems biology and protein function. In particular, focuses on cancer-related proteins and pathways.

XSEDE SUMMER RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Call For Students (2/22/2014 Deadline)

This, and the Bluewater project is a great opportunity for graduate students.

The XSEDE Student Engagement Program is seeking undergraduate and graduate students for a 10-week project experience for this summer. Working with XSEDE researchers and staff, students will make meaningful contributions to research, development and systems projects that benefit the national scientific and computational community. In exchange, students will be provided with travel support for project orientation and to attend the XSEDE14 conference in Atlanta, GA in July, and a small stipend.

Projects for 2014 address a wide variety of computational needs. Some of the projects allow students to work remotely (from their home or home institution), although some require the student to be onsite at their supervisor's institution. All projects will have well-defined work plans, established collaboratively at the orientation meeting. Students are also expected to participate in surveys and other evaluation activities, to help XSEDE track the effectiveness and impact of the program.

Available projects are listed at 2014 Student Engagement Projects. To apply, complete the form online at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/StuEngApplication-2014  and email your required documents to outreach-stueng@xsede.org. Your application will not be considered until all material has been received.

Michael Starobin, NASA film/media producer

From: Hamner, Marvine
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2014 8:42 PM
To: Chang, Elizabeth; Salem, Ahmed; Dong, Aijuan; Pierce, Bill; Jim, Carol; George Dimitoglou; Giri, Jiwan; Lateef, Khalid; Liu, Xinlian; Ford, Randy; Hylton, Russell; Shawn Lupoli; Maher@hood.ed
Subject: Starobin TOMORROW...  Want a FREE DINNER???

Michael Starobin from NASA will be talking with/to us about (data) visualization tomorrow from 4-5pm in Hodson 114.  My understanding is that there should be some posters with his schedule around...  After that I/we will walk him to dinner (free!!!).

Please send an email and let your students know about his talk.  Since his talk is so relevant to the product(s) most of us work toward I'm allowing my students the equivalent of 1 homework assignment to attend.

If you want to go to dinner let me know and I'll make sure your name is added to the list!
Marvine

HPC in Life/Med Sci at VT 7/29-8/8, graduate and undergraduate students

High Performance Computing in the Life/Medical Sciences
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech
Tue July 29 - Fri Aug 8 2014
Applications due Sun March 30 2014
http://nsfsi.vbi.vt.edu/

Research Experience for Undergrads

REU are components of regular NSF programs, where HPC related topics are always promoted.

• Louisiana State University (3 programs)

5/26/2014-8/1/2014

Interdisciplinary Research Experience in Computational Sciences
http://reu.cct.lsu.edu/

$5,000 stipend, free housing, $600 travel expenses

Interdisciplinary Research Experience in Material Sciences
http://reu.lasigma.loni.org/
$4,500 stipend, $400 travel expenses

Interdisciplinary Research Experience for Teachers in Materials Science
http://reu.lasigma.loni.org/
current STEM teachers in middle schools and high schools
$7,000 each

• Joint Institute for Computational Sciences (U Tennessee Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory

http://www.jics.utk.edu/csure-reu/
6/2/2014-8/8/2014

The Computational Science for Undergraduate Research Experiences (CSURE) REU site project will direct a group of undergraduate students to explore the emergent computational science models and techniques proven to work in a number of data and compute intensive applications using the supercomputers at the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Each student accepted by the program receives a stipend of $500 per week and, if necessary, a travel stipend of up to $1000.  In addition, students may receive $210/per week for the housing at UT apartment.

• University of Texas at Dallas

http://paris.utdallas.edu/REU
5/23/2014-7/31/2104

Software Safety: Methodology, Practice and Research

$5,000 stipend, free on campus housing and a travel reimbursement.

• Clemson University (2 programs)

6/2/2014-7/25/2014

http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~bcdean/reu/
Data-Intensive Computing in complex systems modeling, medical informatics, intelligent river, next generation sequencing.

on-campus housing, a generous stipend, access to on-campus facilities and assistance with travel.

http://citi.clemson.edu/viz/reu/
Collabrorated Data Visualization Applications

• University of Maryland Baltimore County

http://www.umbc.edu/hpcreu/
6/15/2014-8/8/2014

Parallel, Scientific, or Statistical Computing

campus housing, meal plan, travel allowance, free course tuition, stipend $3,600 or more

Independent Studies

Independent study courses in the Computer Science program are student guided study which are used:

• Faculty and students explore subjects not covered by regular curricular;
• Research topics appeal to both faculty and students;

They are not designed to replace regular courses, or used as alternative schedules.

We often see interesting projects, for example:
Kenneth May and Seth Kress, Enhancement of DARS (Spring 2014, advsior: Dr. Salem)
This research project aims to create an simulation environment that allows the security aspect of ad hoc networks to be analyzed more closely by implementing AODV.

CS 525 Software Testing in Spring 2014

CS 525 Software Testing & Quality Assurance (Wednesday 6:20-8:50pm) was on the edge of being cancelled because of low enrolment, but we have been making an argument to keep it.  If anyone is still looking for an elective computer science course, please consider this course for following reasons:

1. We may not be able to offer it again in two years;
2. This is an important and pragmatic subject, especially for experienced programmers;
3. The instructor has extensive experiences in software engineering.

Misc HPC Jobs

University of Connecticut is hiring a Linux Systems Administrator (Operating Systems Programmer/Analyst 2 - UCP 7) to support its Engineering Computing Services department, http://s.uconn.edu/linuxjob.

University of Nebraska is hiring a Systems Administrator to maintain Holland Computing Center (HCC) core resources including, but not limited to, LDAP and group CMS (Content Management System), provide resolution to user issues, support and maintain user authentication mechanisms and work with (HCC) staff to maintain systems security integrity, https://employment.unl.edu/postings/37901.

Educational Data Analyst Job Opportunity at the University of Illinois

Description:

Visiting Research Specialist
Illinois Science Technology Engineering Mathematics Education Initiative (I-STEM)

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has an opening for a Visiting Research Specialist with the Illinois Science Technology Engineering Mathematics Education Initiative (I-STEM). This position is a 100% full-time, benefits-eligible Academic Professional position.  Salary for this position will be commensurate with experience and qualifications.

The individual in this position is responsible for planning and conducting data collection, analysis and reporting for the independent evaluation of the Blue Waters Community Engagement Project and other related projects.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conduct observations, direct assessments, interviews and surveys with Blue Waters participants and other key stakeholders.
• Draft literature reviews, interim and final reports and other documents for the evaluation as well as assist with grant writing and other duties as assigned.
• Schedule, prepare materials, and attend meetings with the Blue Waters leadership team as well as assist with the coordination of other education, training outreach events.
• Provide direction and/or instruction to the student workers assisting with the evaluation.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, computer, and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated experience and skill with writing contract/grant proposals and presentations as well as composing, editing, integrating information, making decisions and attaining results.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Education or a related field
• Experience in evaluation and research methodology and qualitative data analysis.

Application:
To ensure full consideration application materials must be received by Thursday, January 23, 2014. Start date is as soon as possible after the close of the search. All candidates must create a candidate profile through https://jobs.illinois.edu and upload a cover letter, resume, and the names, addresses and telephone numbers of three professional references. Interviews may begin prior to the close of the search.  However, a hiring decision will not be made until after the full consideration date. For further information regarding application procedures, please contact Jennifer Steiling at 217-300-2734.

Student Intern at Fort Detrick in Bioinformatics

Web programming and R. Let me know.