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Weekly News

November 16, 2009

 

Headlines:

You have been invited to attend the following event:

*University Recruiting: Why IBM?*, Nov 18th, 2009, 5:00 - 6:00 PM EST, Presented By: IBM Virtual Recruiting
To register for this event/, use the following link: https://events.webdialogs.com/register.php?id=f4f5cbb522&l=en-US_

See below for description.

The Hamilton Book Author Awards, underwritten by The University Co-operative Society, recognize faculty and staff members who have published the best book-length publications as determined by a multi-disciplinary committee appointed by the Vice President for Research. See this link for more info http://www.utexas.edu/research/admin/recognition/hamiltonaward/

First prize: $10,000

Graduate Fellowship Information

• NEW INFO - Computational Science Graduate Fellowship application is open. Please see http://www2.krellinst.org/csgf/index.shtml for more information on this fellowship. Deadline January 14, 2010.
  
• NEW INFO - The National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship application is open. Please see http://ndseg.asee.org/ for more information on applying. The deadline is January 4, 2010.
  
• NEW INFO - AT&T Lab Ph.D. Fellowship application for women and underrepresented minorities is open. More information can be found at http://www.research.att.com/internships. The deadline is January 31, 2010.
  
• Dan David Prize, http://www.dandavidprize.org/index.php/prize-nominations/prize-nominations.html . Due by November 30, 2009.
  
• NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes http://www.nsfsi.org/ . Deadline December 8.
  
• Symantec is now accepting applicants for their 2010 Symantec Fellowship. Deadline December 12. https://webspace.utexas.edu/cherwitz/www/ie/career_resources.html
  

• Women’s Doctoral Fellowship Competition - AAUW – American Association of University Women for 2010/2011, http://www.main.org/aauw/fellowship.html
  
• NEW Graduate Fellowship opportunity announced by Secretary Chu as part of the Recovery Act Funding – see http://www.scied.science.doe.gov/SCGF/information.html for more information. This is an excellent opportunity for currently enrolled first or second year graduate students.

Dates and Deadlines – HIGHLIGHTS

Full UT calendar at http://registrar.utexas.edu/calendars/08-09/index.html

Ph.D. Students - DECEMBER 4, 2008- DEADLINE for submission of information to be reviewed at the January GSC. Check your semesters of employment to see if you need to submit a 12th or 14th semester review.

ALL Students

• NOVEMBER 10 – Tuition bills for Spring 2010 will be sent out today. PAYMENT DUE January 22.
• NOVEMBER 26 – 27 – University closed for Thanksgiving holiday.
• DECEMBER 4 – Last class day and PhD’s preferred deadline to submit materials for review at January 15 GSC meeting.
• JANUARY 11 – 12 – Add/Drop if you have registered and paid already
• JANUARY 14 – 15 – Next opportunity to register. This is not late registration.
• JANUARY 18 – University closed for MLK day
• JANUARY 19 – 22 – 1st day of Spring 2010 classes and LATE REGISTRATION begins
• JANUARY 22– Registration must be paid by either confirming your ‘0’ fee bill or paying at least 50% of your bill.
• FEBRUARY 3 – Payment for add bills due. Check your fee bill to be sure you don’t owe anything today. If you miss this it will get ugly! $200 to late register because they drop all your classes.

Degree Checks

Degree checks for Spring 2010, Summer 2010, and Fall 2010 registration will be done November 9 – November 20. PLEASE request a degree check if you plan to graduate in 2010! Provide the Grad Office with your EID and which degree you are seeking. You will have an opportunity to change your registration for Spring 2010 if necessary. A degree check BEFORE your planned semester of graduation eliminates surprises in the semester you hope to graduate.

Graduation Celebration (Convocation)

If you wish to walk in a graduation ceremony in December then it will be the CoNS ceremony.

Regalia: The Co-op opened their graduation dept. (regalia, etc.) on October 7th for Fall 2009 graduates. See the graduation link at the bottom of their web site http://www.coop-bookstore.com/# for more information.

PH.D’s - We hope you will also choose to return and participate in the May 2010 CS department PhD hooding ceremony.

The graduate school has a number of requirements for graduation. Please see this web site http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/pdn/deadlines/doc_fall.html

Keep in mind the 12th and 14 semester of employment information: Information is under graduation timetable at this link: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/academics/graduate/phd_program/advising/

Personal Exam Schedule on UTDirect

https://utdirect.utexas.edu/registrar/exam_schedule.WBX. Always check with the course instructor for more information regarding requirements for your class.

Graduate Students Talks Calendar

http://z.cs.utexas.edu/thyme/thyme-1.3/index.php?calendar=Graduate%20Student%20Talks

Masters Applying for Ph.D. Program

Current Masters students applying for Ph.D. program – CS application process has specific requirements. Contact Katherine Utz in the graduate office about this. The department application opened Oct. 15.

TA’s - ASPECTS

http://www.utexas.edu/academic/diia/gsi/aspects/view_sessions.php

PH.D.’s - The IE Dissertation ListServ and Resources WEB

https://webspace.utexas.edu/cherwitz/www/ie/disslist.html

Intellectual Entrepeneurship.

These are the 3 related web sites:

The IE Pre-Grad School Internship Program http://communication.utexas.edu/ie/,

The IE Dissertation ListServ and Resources WEB https://webspace.utexas.edu/cherwitz/www/ie/disslist.html,

The IE Job/Career Resources WEB https://webspace.utexas.edu/cherwitz/www/ie/career_resources.html

2nd International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing

(CMC 2010), April 12-14, 2010, Shenzhen, China

http://world-research-institutes.org/conferences/CMC/2010

http://world-research-institute.org/conferences/CMC/2010

Call for Papers & Expo

IBM Virtual Recruiting Description

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