2018-2019 | Past Announcements

3/1/18)

Central Intelligence Agency

7/31/18

High School Seniors, College Freshmen and Sophomores, U.S. Citizens, 3.0+ GPA, 1500 SAT / 21 ACT, commitment to work for the CIA, financial need.

Salary + up to $18,000 per year for tuition and fees.

NCWIT / corporate sponsors

11/5/18

Young women at the high-school level for computing-related achievements and interests.

$500, laptop, engraved trophy.

Michael & Susan Dell Foundation

12/1/18

U.S. citizens or permanent residents graduating from high school and planning on college.  2.4+ GPA, financial need, participation in an approved college-readiness program during grades 11 and 12.

Support for tuition, fees, books, room & board.

Central Intelligence Agency

7/31/18

High School Seniors, College Freshmen and Sophomores, U.S. Citizens, 3.0+ GPA, 1500 SAT / 21 ACT, commitment to work for the CIA, financial need.

Salary + up to $18,000 per year for tuition and fees.

National & International Scholarships Program at Illinois

11/26/18

One or two year awards to students who demonstrate strong evidence of contributing to the technological advances of the United States. Current junior or exceptional sophomore students who are U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, or resident aliens are eligible. Applicants should be committed to a PhD in the research fields of mathematics, sciences or engineering.

Each scholarship covers eligible expenses for undergraduate tuition, fees, books, and room and board, up to a maximum of $7,500 annually.

The Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship seeks to attract talented, committed individuals with backgrounds in the STEM fields—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—into teaching in high-need secondary schools in Georgia and New Jersey. Eligible applicants include current undergraduates, recent college graduates, midcareer professionals, and retirees who have majored in, or have extensively studied, one or more of the STEM fields.

U.S. Citizens & permanent residents.  Bachelor's degree by 6/30/2018. 3.0+GPA.  Interested in teaching in STEM fields.

Admission to a master's degree program at a partner university. $30,000 stipend, with tuition arrangements varying by campus in Georgia and New Jersey. (Once Fellows are certified teachers at the end of the first year, they obtain salaried employment in high-need schools.) And more.

12/22/18

Engineering Council

12/22/18

Two scholarships - one to a freshman or sophomore and the other to a junior or senior- given to students who demonstrate involvement for the benefit of an engineering department or the college as a whole. To qualify, students must have at least a 2.5 GPA, demonstrated involvement for the benefit of an engineering department or the college as a whole, and be a student on campus for the following fall semester.

Scholarship

Engineering Council

12/22/18

Recipients of this award are chosen based on their leadership skills, creativity, encouragement of others through activities, and dedication to the College of Engineering. To qualify, students must be enrolled in an engineering curriculum at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (includes students in departments that are outside of but still affiliated with the College of Engineering), be a sophomore or junior (by number of years in attendance), and have a minimum GPA of 2.5.

Scholarship

Cargill, Incorporated

3/1/17

First and second year undergraduate students at select universities who demonstrate exemplary academic achievement, leadership potential and study in a field [including CS] relevant to Cargill's world of food, agriculture and risk management are eligible to apply.

10 scholarships to be awarded in the US, $2,500/year for up to two years.

3/5/2019

Applicants must have faculty support or mentoring for the duration of their proposed research.
Funding is provided for students pursuing their own research projects or working on a faculty-led project.

3/14/19

• Full-time female* undergraduate student going into her senior year or in a master’s program for the 2018-2019 school year
• pursuing a degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering and computer science, or software engineering
• Attending school in the United States or India
• minimum GPA of 3.5
• Demonstrate strong leadership and communications skills
• Record of co-curricular activity and/or community service
• Be of good character

2/9/18

3/6/2018

3/12/2018

To support the Conference goals of celebrating diversity in computing, scholarships will be reviewed and evaluated by the Scholarship Committee according to three, main criteria:

• whether the applicant is a member of an underrepresented group,
• overall strength of the application and written essay,
• applicant’s level of accomplishment in computer science.

ITI

3/26/2018

U.S. Citizens or permanent residents. Admitted full time on campus undergraduate or graduate students. College of Engineering undergraduate or graduate student with a focus on cyber or information security and privacy. See: https://publish.illinois.edu/cybersecurityscholars/

Up to 3 year scholarship covering tuition, room and board.  Internship opportunities.

Be rising freshman, sophomore, junior or senior
Provide verification of enrollment at a United States university
Be registered as a full-time student the year after receiving the scholarship
Have a 3.5 GPA or higher
Submit a completed essay and all required documents by the application deadline

Student designers or developers with a passion for social change

The Codeathon, taking place in Chicago on Thursday, October 18 – Friday, October 19, 2018, will bring together undergraduate and graduate student designers from across academic disciplines to generate innovative applications to address a pressing global issue.

Undergraduate and graduate students in good academic standing and currently enrolled at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

All submissions must be a visual or graphic representation of data that you have permission to use. Two examples of data you would have permission to use are public data and data that you have collected yourself. The data you use can be quantitative, qualitative, textual, visual, geographic, and so forth.

You must have been involved in the generation of the visualization. If any colleagues helped create it, you must obtain permission from them to submit the visualization in this competition.

All awards will be announced at the Scholarly Commons Open House on October 9th.

First place: $500
Second place: $300

9/28/18

A $10,000 award paid once with no strings attached. A Creative Cloud subscription membership for one year. An Adobe Research mentor. An internship opportunity at Adobe for the 2016 summer.

IEEE Computer Society

9/30/18

Should be an active leader in an IEEE Computer Society Student Organization. "Applicants are required to have a minimum grade point average of 2.5 over 4.0, and be a full-time student as defined by his or her academic institution during the course of the award."

Up to $2,000

National & International Scholarships Program at Illinois

10/11/2018

Seniors and graduate students who are U.S. citizens under the age of 26 are eligible to apply. Must complete GRE test by November. Check additional criteria here.

One year of graduate study at Cambridge University, England, leading to a degree in engineering, mathematics, or the sciences.

International Programs and Studies, University of Illinois

10/15/2017

Undergraduate students in at least the second year of study, 3.5+ GPA. This award recognizes a significant service or activity made by a current University of Illinois undergraduate student (U.S. citizen or international), resulting from their participation in an international study course or program sanctioned by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (including departmental overseas study programs, IPS study abroad program, overseas international projects, etc).  The international contribution can be a single activity or a service performed over a sustained period.

$500

10/22/18

Insight offers four distinct Fellowships in a number of different locations. Please select only one program, which best aligns with your career transition goals. Select the location where you intend to live and work full-time after completion of the program. Select the start date that allows you to participate in the program full-time and accept a job offer immediately afterwards. Email questions to info@insightdatascience.com.

• Data Science  (for PhDs & Postdocs)
• Health Data Science  (for PhDs & Postdocs)
• Data Engineering  (for Bachelors, Masters, or PhDs)
• Artificial Intelligence  (for Bachelors, Masters, or PhDs)

10/23/2018

U.S. citizens and permanent residents. Seniors and graduate students who have completed no more than 12 months of full-time graduate study by 8/1/2017. (So, typically seniors and 1st and 3rd semester graduate students.)  Must be registered with Fastlane.

NOTE: As of 2017, graduate students are limited to only one application to the GRFP, submitted either in the first year or in the second year of graduate school.

10/24/2018

U.S. citizens or Permanent Residents. Seniors going into a Ph.D. program at specific institutions and 1st year Ph.D. students. GRE and two sets of official transcripts required. Register to see the application.

Summary info here.
Online application as PDF.

IEEE Computer Society

10/31/2018

Undergraduate students who are IEEE Computer Society members, 3.0+ GPA.

$500 (one award)

Google

11/1/2018

Current undergraduate or graduate student veterans who will be studying at a university in the United States for the 2017-2018 academic year.

$10,000 scholarship; attend Google Scholars retreat.

National & International Scholarships Program at Illinois

11/8/2018

College juniors who are U.S. citizens with a record of community service and a commitment to a career in public service are eligible. Public service includes government, uniformed services, public interest organizations, non-governmental research or educational organizations, public and private schools and other public service-oriented non-profit organizations.

One year funding for students pursuing graduate degrees in public service fields.

11/13/2018

Admission to a master's degree program at a partner university. $30,000 stipend, with tuition arrangements varying by campus in Georgia and New Jersey. (Once Fellows are certified teachers at the end of the first year, they obtain salaried employment in high-need schools.) And more.

12/1/2018

12/1/2018

Google

12/6/2018

High school seniors, undergraduates, and graduate students pursuing a CS or CE degree in academic year 2016-2017.  Students from underrepresented groups in CS.  

$10,000 scholarship

Google

12/6/2018

Female students enrolled in undergraduate or graduate studies in 2016-2017, who intend to enroll for 2017-18. Strong academic record.  Exemplify leadership and demonstrate passion for increasing the involvement of women in computer science.

$10,000 scholarship; attend Google Scholars retreat.

ASEE

12/7/2018

U.S. citizens. Graduating Seniors and 1st and 2nd Year Graduate Students. GRE required.

3 years of support for graduate study. Full Tuition + $30,000 yearly stipend.

1/9/2019

1. Undergraduate seniors
2. Applicants with no more than B.S. or B.A. degrees who are not enrolled in graduate school
3. First-year graduate students (M.S. degree or Ph.D. students without an M.S. degree)

1/25/2019

3/10/2017

2/1/2019

2/11/2019

UIUC Student Affairs

2/15/2019

Requirements Vary.  Students/RSOs must be nominated by faculty, staff, or other students.

Varies.

3/13/2019

1/22/2018

Graduate and professional students at Illinois are invited to submit entries consisting of an image and brief text that articulates how the image relates to the research. Entries will be judged by a multidisciplinary panel for connection between image, text, and research; originality; and visual impact.

1/22/2018

Graduate and professional students at Illinois are invited to submit entries consisting of an image and brief text that articulates how the image relates to the research. Entries will be judged by a multidisciplinary panel for connection between image, text, and research; originality; and visual impact.

1/28/2019

2/2/2018

2/16/2018

Master’s students may receive two years of support; doctoral students may receive four years of support. IBHE has not yet finalized the stipend levels, but we anticipate ~$13,000 for new fellows and ~$15,000 for renewing fellows. Fellowships may also qualify for tuition waivers. For students holding up to a 50% assistantship, the fellowship may be held concurrently with the assistantship.        

9/28/2018

9/28/2018

Eligible graduate students will have already completed their first year of Ph.D. level studies in the areas of computer science, computer engineering, system architecture, electrical engineering or a related area.

Fellowships support Ph.D. students who are researching topics that will lead to major advances in the graphics and high-performance computing industries and who are investigating innovative ways of leveraging the power of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). NVIDIA particularly invites submissions from students pushing the envelope in artificial intelligence, deep neural networks, autonomous vehicles, and related fields. The fellowship offers support for one year.

10/12/2018

2 year fellowship; $37,000/year; tuition and fees.
Plus up to $5,000 in conference travel support

10/12/2018

10/15/2017

Insight offers six distinct Fellowships in a number of different locations. Please select only one program, which best aligns with your career transition goals. Select the location where you intend to live and work full-time after completion of the program. Select the start date that allows you to participate in the program full-time and accept a job offer immediately afterwards. Email questions to info@insightdatascience.com.

• Data Science  (for PhDs & Postdocs)
• Health Data Science  (for PhDs & Postdocs)
• Data Engineering  (for Bachelors, Masters, or PhDs)
• Artificial Intelligence  (for Bachelors, Masters, or PhDs)

10/24/2018

U.S. citizens or Permanent Residents. Seniors going into a Ph.D. program at specific institutions and 1st year Ph.D. students. GRE and two sets of official transcripts required. Register to see the application.

Summary info here.
Online application as PDF.

With this program, they seek to fully support a small group of the most promising PhD students in AI and ML who are interested in making the long-term, large-scale impacts of AI a central focus of their research. 

They encourage applications from 5th-year students, who will be supported on a year-by-year basis; students who will be starting their PhD in Fall 2019; and students with pre-existing funding sources who find the mission and community of the Fellows Program appealing.

11/1/2018

11/1/2018

11/15/2018

• Be U.S. citizens at the time of application and be at least 18 years of age at the time of applying.
• Be enrolled full-time in a Qualified Graduate Program with the Ph.D. as their degree objective.
• Have obtained the Ph.D. candidacy at their home institution at the time of application and must have established a defined graduate thesis project and graduate thesis advisor.

• Stipend of up to $3,000 per month while at the host DOE laboratory.
• Up to $2,000 total reimbursement for in-bound and out-bound travel expenses to the host DOE laboratory only (i.e. not other relocation costs) if greater than 50 miles from their university.

11/15/2018

up to $20,000 that may be used to cover one year of the student's tuition and to reimburse research expenses incurred by the student

A separate salaried internship with Symantec

11/30/2017

Admission to a master's degree program at a partner university. $30,000 stipend, with tuition arrangements varying by campus in Georgia and New Jersey. (Once Fellows are certified teachers at the end of the first year, they obtain salaried employment in high-need schools.) And more.

12/1/2018

12/8/2018

Fellowships support graduate students in astronomy, chemistry, computer science, geology, materials science, mathematical sciences, physics, and their sub-disciplines, and related engineering fields: chemical, computer, electrical, environmental, mechanical. Fellows are sponsored by government agencies and federal laboratories. The fellowship offers support for up to six years.

NPSC welcomes applications from any qualified U.S. citizen who has the ability to pursue graduate work at an NPSC member institution.  Applicants at any stage of their graduate program may apply, as long as they will be available to accept two summers of paid internship.

$20,000 annual stipend.
Tuition and fees.
Paid summer internships.

U.S. citizens. Preference is given to members of underrepresented groups.  The dissertation fellowships provide one year of support for individuals working to complete a dissertation leading to a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) or Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) degree.  Applicants should expect to complete the dissertation during the 2018-2019 academic year, but no later than fall 2019.

Supporting documents (including transcripts, verification forms, GRE scores, letters of recommendation, and host letters): January 9, 2018

http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/FordFellowships/PGA_166318

France

1/8/2019

PhD students wishing to conduct research at a French lab for 4-9 months.  Applicant must engage in a co-supervised Ph.D., or seek a double degree with France.

1,400 Euros/month, travel support to France, Health Insurance.

Link Foundation

1/15/2019

Full time Ph.D. candidates. Preference will be shown to proposals dealing directly with simulation and training and which explore ideas not yet fully tested.

$28,500 grant for academic year and summer stipend.

2/28/2019

3/5/2019

3/5/2019

IBM Research

1/16/2018

Candidates must have received a Ph.D. degree after September 2012 or should expect to receive one before the fellowship commences in the second half of 2017 (usually in September).

The stipend is expected to be between $105,000 and $130,000

2/9/2018

10/1/2018

Sandia

11/1/2018

Eligibility criteria include: the ability to obtain a DOE "Q" clearance; research in areas of interest to national security; the candidate must have been awarded a Ph.D. (minimum 3.5 undergraduate and 3.7 graduate GPA preferred) within the past 3 years at the time of application or will have completed all Ph.D. requirements by commencement of appointment (Oct. 2017); and, candidates seeking their first national laboratory appointment (pre postdoc internships excluded). Truman Fellowship candidates are expected to have solved a major scientific or engineering problem in their thesis work or will have provided a new approach or insight to a major problem, as evidenced by a recognized impact in their field.

$111,200 salary + benefits, 3 year appointment. 

Pre-Proposal
9/5/2018

Full Proposal
1/9/2019

Beckman Institute, UIUC

11/26/2018

Recipients of the fellows awards are expected to have a recent Ph.D. (received no earlier than December 2014) in an area of research relevant to Beckman Institute research and to be involved in interdisciplinary studies related to one of the Beckman Institute's research themes.

Fellows will be appointed for up to three years, beginning as early as July of their application year, and no later than December 31. Fellows receive $54,000 annually, plus benefits and a research budget.

Sandia National Lab

11/26/2018

Applicants must have or soon receive a Ph.D. in applied/computational mathematics or related computational science and computational engineering disciplines. Applicants must have less than three years of post-doctoral experience.

This appointment is for a period of one year, with a possible renewal for a second year, and includes a highly competitive salary, moving expenses and a generous professional travel allowance.

11/27/2018

IBM Research

1/16/2018

Candidates must have received a Ph.D. degree after September 2012 or should expect to receive one before the fellowship commences in the second half of 2017 (usually in September).

The stipend is expected to be between $105,000 and $130,000

2/9/2018