[Imsa-hpc-list] Fwd: Blue Waters Undergraduate Petascale Internship Program - Deadline Extended to April 10, 2011!

[Clemson Steve]

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Subject: 	Blue Waters Undergraduate Petascale Internship Program - 
Deadline Extended to April 10, 2011!
Date: 	Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:26:12 -0400
From: 	Jennifer Houchins <jhouchins at shodor.org>
To: 	NCSI List <ncsi-announce at shodor.org>



  Blue Waters Undergraduate Petascale Internship Program


    Who:

We are actively recruiting undergraduate faculty and students:

·Undergraduate faculty who would like to mentor an undergraduate student 
in a year-long internship in the sciences, engineering, or mathematics 
that involves teaching or researching the use of high-performance 
computing in studying problems in these fields.

·Undergraduate students interested in participating in a year-long 
science or engineering internship. Students must be enrolled as 
undergraduates through Spring 2012 at a U.S. degree-granting institution.


    What:

Support is provided by the NSF-funded Blue Waters Project 
<http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/BlueWaters/> for sustained petascale 
computing to support year-long undergraduate internship experiences 
involving the application of high-performance computing to problems in 
the sciences, engineering, or mathematics. The program provides a 
student stipend totaling $5000, a two-week intensive high-performance 
computing workshop <http://shodor.org/petascale/workshops/institute/>, 
and travel to the SC11 <http://sc11.supercomputing.org/> supercomputing 
conference in Seattle.

This program provides support for undergraduate internship activities at 
any accredited degree granting institution in the United States. The 
internships awarded through this program may be to students working with 
a faculty mentor on their home campus, or at another campus. Interested 
faculty need tocreate a position description 
<http://computationalscience.org/upep/positions/list> through our site, 
and can specify a particular student that the position is intended for, 
or may select a qualified applicant with Blue Waters support through our 
program.


    Promotional Material:

A PowerPoint slide 
<http://www.computationalscience.org/snapmedia/content//petascale/promotional/intern_slide.ppt> is 
available to let students know about the program (if your browser or 
e-mail client appends a “.doc” suffix to this file, you will need to 
remove that suffix to open the file with PowerPoint). In addition, 
poster-sized 
<http://www.computationalscience.org/snapmedia/content//petascale/promotional/intern_poster_large.pdf> and 
handout-sized 
<http://www.computationalscience.org/snapmedia/content//petascale/promotional/intern_poster_small.pdf> flyers 
are available (in pdf format) to inform students and colleagues about 
this program.


    When:

Student applications and intern position descriptions from faculty must 
be submitted by April 10, 2011. Be sure to click the “Submit” button at 
the bottom of the web form to be entered into our system. Review and 
selection will be conducted in early April, with notifications being 
made by April 15.

A two-week workshop will be held May 29 through June10. Interns are 
expected to work full-time over the Summer, and as their schedule allows 
during the academic year. Work plans will need to be arranged by the 
student and faculty mentor, and approved by the Blue Waters 
Undergraduate Petascale Education Program.


    How:

Through our website 
<http://shodor.org/petascale/participation/internships/>:

·Faculty should create descriptions of undergraduate internship 
positions they have available, indicating either that the position is 
intended for a particular student applicant, or that it is open to 
qualified applicants.

·Eligible undergraduate students are asked to submit an application for 
consideration. There is an area on the form where students can identify 
a faculty member as a mentor. Students who have taken the initiative to 
arrange an internship with a faculty mentor are more likely to be 
selected for this program than students that have not.


For additional information, please contact Jennifer Houchins 
(jhouchins at shodor.org <mailto:jhouchins at shodor.org>) or Jeff Krause 
(jeff.krause at shodor.org <mailto:jeff.krause at shodor.org>).

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Jennifer Houchins, jhouchins at shodor.org <mailto:jhouchins at shodor.org>
Jeff Krause, jeff.krause at shodor.org <mailto:jeff.krause at shodor.org>
Shodor: A National Resource for Computational Science Education
300 West Morgan Street Suite 1150, Durham, NC 27701
VOX: +1-919-530-1911    FAX: +1-919-530-1944
http://www.shodor.org






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