<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Begin forwarded message:<br><div><b>From: </b>"R. M. Panoff, Ph.D." <<a href="mailto:rpanoff@shodor.org">rpanoff@shodor.org</a>><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>!0 days to go! We need you to propose projects and match with your students!</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">March 10, 2015 at 7:56:14 PM EDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><<a href="mailto:ncsi-announce@shodor.org">ncsi-announce@shodor.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">Phil List <<a href="mailto:bplist@shodor.org">bplist@shodor.org</a>><br></span></div><br><div>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">We have heard that a number of internship programs have been cut back. Not so with the BLUE WATERS STUDENT INTERNSHIPS!!<div><br></div><div>The Blue Waters Petascale project (an NSF-funded supercomputer a MILLION times faster than your mac or pc!) also funds 20 internships. You have the chance to propose a project that will help one of your students:<div><br></div><div>• Learn how to run science codes on the nation's fastest academic supercomputer</div><div>• Learn parallel thinking and parallel processing in the context of real science</div><div>• Have all expenses paid for a 2-week Institute at the University of Illinois</div><div>• Receive a $5000 stipend for working for you on your project during the summer and following school year</div><div>• Compete to represent the project at the Blue Waters Symposium in 2016</div><div>• Make friends and develop collaborations with students from across the country.</div><div><br></div><div>We are looking for as diverse an applicant group as we can, and we could use your imagination and enthusiasm to propose a project and to encourage a student to apply to work with you on that project.</div><div><br></div><div>See below for more information. 10 DAYS LEFT BEFORE THE DEADLINE! Please refer all questions to Phil List at the e-mail above.</div><div><br></div><div>THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!!</div><div><br></div><div>SUMMARY:</div><div><br>Blue Waters Student Internship Program<br>Applications due Fri March 20 2015<br>Contact: Phil List (<a href="mailto:bplist@shodor.org">bplist@shodor.org</a>)<br><a href="http://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/internships">http://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/internships</a><br><a href="http://shodor.org/petascale/participation/internships">http://shodor.org/petascale/participation/internships</a><br><br>DETAILS:<br><br>Are you a student looking for an internship or faculty interested<br>in mentoring a student?<br><br>Blue Waters Student Internship Program<br>Now Accepting Applications (due by Friday March 20, 2015)<br><br>Blue Waters Student Internship Program is actively seeking faculty<br>and students to participate in year-long student internship<br>opportunities.<br><br>Students in the program will gain experiences involving the<br>application of high-performance computing to problems in science,<br>mathematics, or engineering.<br><br>The program provides students with:<br><br>* a stipend for undergraduate participants totaling $5000,<br><br>* a two-week intensive Petascale Institute (May 24 - June 6,<br>2015), and<br><br>* travel to the Blue Waters Symposium 2016 if selected to present.<br><br>This program provides support for internship activities at any<br>accredited degree granting institution in the United States.<br><br>The internships awarded through this program may be for students<br>working with a faculty member on their home campus, or at<br>another campus.<br><br>Graduate students are welcome to apply to attend the Petascale<br>Institute.<br><br>They are responsible for arranging their own research advisor and<br>any stipend would be the responsibility of the research advisor.<br><br>Interested students can apply at:<br><br><a href="http://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/internships">http://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/internships</a><br><a href="http://shodor.org/petascale/participation/internships">http://shodor.org/petascale/participation/internships</a><br><br>Faculty who would like to mentor an undergraduate student can<br>post descriptions of available positions.<br><br>Positions can be intended for a particular applicant or opened to<br>all qualified applicants.<br><br>Faculty can submit internship positions at:<br><br><a href="http://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/internships">http://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/internships</a><br>or<br><a href="http://shodor.org/petascale/participation/internships">http://shodor.org/petascale/participation/internships</a><br><br>Blue Waters, supported by NSF and the University of Illinois, is<br>one of the world's most powerful supercomputers and the fastest on<br>a university campus.<br><br>Up to 1 percent of the computing capacity of Blue Waters is<br>available for educational efforts aimed at preparing the next<br>generation of students and teachers and an educated workforce.<br><br>The goal of the Blue Waters Student Internship Program and of the<br>education allocation is to provide unique learning experiences for<br>undergraduate and graduate students across a wide array of<br>traditional and emerging disciplines.<br><br>In collaboration with Blue Waters, Shodor and the National<br>Computational Science Institute will provide support and content<br>for the internship program and Petascale Institute.<br><br>Shodor, a national resource for computational science education,<br>is located in Durham, NC, and serves students and educators<br>nationwide.<br><br>Phil List<br>Apprenticeship Director<br>Computing Mentor<br>The Shodor Education Foundation<br>807 E. Main Street, Suite 7-100<br>Durham, NC 27701<br>919.530.1911<br><a href="mailto:bplist@shodor.org">bplist@shodor.org</a><br><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>