Microsoft Research Graduate Women's Scholarship (Fall 2013)

Microsoft Research Graduate Women's Scholarship (Fall 2013)

Department Deadline: 9/30/2013
External Deadline: 10/16/2013

See: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/awards/fellows-women.aspx
        http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/awards/fellows-women-faq.aspx

Microsoft will award one-year scholarships to outstanding female graduate students. Scholarships will be granted at Microsoft's discretion. The scholarship recipient award includes $15,000 for the 2014-2015 academic year and a $2,000 conference travel allowance.

International students (non-U.S. citizens) are eligible.  Students must be currently enrolled in their first year in a graduate program. If a student has already completed graduate-level (for graduate credit*) coursework in any subject area, prior to their first year in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Mathematics, then the student is not eligible for the Scholarship program.  *Graduate level courses taken as part of a BS degree do not disqualify a student (verified via email exchange with Microsoft).

A maximum of three candidates per department may be nominated.

Please ensure that the following materials are submitted by 5pm on 9/30/2013 to Colin Robertson (colinr@illinois.edu, 2233 SC):
1) Your CV/resume.
2) A copy of your undergraduate transcript.
3) An essay describing your research interest and how this scholarship would enable your success (maximum length of 500 words).
4) Two (2) letters of reference from established researchers familiar with the your research:
 a) One letter of recommendation from your graduate adviser.
 b) One letter of recommendation from your undergraduate adviser or another academic familiar with your undergraduate work (should include any research work, if applicable).

Note: Electronic documents are preferred and should be submitted as PDFs, Word documents, or plain-text files. Letters of recommendation should be sent from the letter writer directly to colinr@illinois.edu.  Students, please include your netid in your file names. I recommend that students submit their CVs and statement(s) to their letter writers at least a week prior to the deadline.

Note: Materials should be submitted to Colin Robertson, not Microsoft.  However, if chosen as one of the department's nominees, be aware: "Applications submitted to Microsoft will not be returned. Microsoft cannot assume responsibility for the confidentiality of information in submitted applications. Therefore, applications should not contain information that is confidential, restricted, or sensitive. Microsoft reserves the right to make public information from applications that receive awards, except those portions containing budgetary or personally identifiable information."