USF-NSF COMPUTATIONAL-SCIENCE SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

The scholarship is currently open to all USF undergraduate students majoring in chemistry, physics, or statistics, not just incoming freshmen and sophomores. Recpients must have need, as determined by the Financial-Aid office.

Welcome to the USF-NSF Computational-Science Scholarships webpage. The University of South Florida has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to provide scholarships to undergraduates interested in pursuing degrees in the fast-growing interdisciplinary field of computational science. Computational science combines the use of state-of-the-art computers with one or more conventional disciplines, such as statistics, chemistry, or physics, to answer scientific questions. Modern, high-performance computers can perform billions of operations in a second, allowing computational scientists to explore real-world problems that could never be solved with pen and paper.

Graduates with experience in both computation and a scientific discipline are in great demand in almost any technical field, whether in academia or industry, including such diverse areas as materials science, synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry, biochemistry, environmental science, space physics, defense systems engineering, weather prediction, financial market simulations, to name just a few.

Scholarships will be awarded for up to $10,000 per year for up to four years in addition to other sources of financial aid. The level awarded depends on unmet need; for an incoming freshman, it could be as much as $40,000 over four years. You may qualify for the USF-NSF Computational-Science Scholarship if you are majoring in physics, chemistry or statistics and if you satisfy the following additional eligibility criteria:

• U.S. citizenship or permanent residency
• Unmet financial need, as determined by the Financial-Aid office

In addition to scholarship funds USF will also provide academic support to give you every opportunity to succeed in your chosen field. This support will include

• Training and experience in massively parallel computing
• Exposure to research groups
• Free tutoring
• Free test preparation for the Graduate Record Examination (GRE)
• Invitations to social events involving scholars, professors, and graduate students
• Opportunities to network and meet professionals in the computational-science industry

Please follow the links at left/top to learn more about this program and how to apply.

Several slots are open for fall 2008. Awards will be made on a rolling basis, but applications received by first June 2008 will receive priority.