The deadlines for CSE and other continuing undergraduate students to put in online applications are fast approaching. (Pictured: Recent CSE graduate Allen Nguyen on summer research internship in Osaka, Japan.)
The application cycle for 2016 Summer Undergraduate Research Scholarships is now open. The deadline for all applications seeking the $5,000 research stipend is February 1, 2016 at 11:59pm. The online application is at http://ucsd-research.academicworks.com.
Separately, the deadline to apply for continuing UC San Diego undergraduate scholarships in 2016-2017 is 11:59pm, February 16, 2016 (including the Alan Turing Memorial Scholarship mentioned above). Some scholarships are based exclusively on merit (academic achievement), but most other scholarships are “restricted”, i.e., based on academic merit and other possible criteria (financial need, leadership, field of interest and so on). Many of the scholarships are open to all majors, while others are more specific. For example, there is a Ken Bowles Scholarship for CSE, open only to computer-science seniors who have cumulative 3.0 GPA and can demonstrate financial need – but who also “may have knowledge or experience with the UCSD Pascal application.” (UCSD Pascal was developed by a large team of CSE students under Prof. Kenneth Bowles at the dawn of the personal computing era.)
Other scholarships (which typically range from $1,000 to $2,000 for the academic year) are restricted to students from several disciplines. A scholarship set up by CSE Prof. CK Cheng and his wife Jenny is open exclusively to computer science, computer engineering or electrical engineering majors, while the James W. Barnes Scholarship is open to undergrads from the CSE, ECE, or Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering departments.
Interested undergrads are invited to fill out an easy-to-complete online application after reading about each scholarship’s guidelines and other information here.
For more about all undergraduate scholarships for CSE students, click here.
For more information about scholarships for continuing undergraduate students, contact Michele Ojeda at mlojeda@ucsd.edu or (858) 822-1028.