[Acm-announce] FW: Tuition plus $20, 000 scholarships for UIC CS majors

[Tom Phillips]

Deadline is this Monday by the way! 

-----Original Message-----
From: Venkat Venkatakrishnan [mailto:VENKAT at uic.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 10:50 AM
To: Walter Dworak; Thomas R. Phillips
Cc: Rigel Gjomemo; Kelly Quinn
Subject: Tuition plus $20,000 scholarships for UIC CS majors

Dear UIC Computer Science majors,

	Prof. Sloan and I have just received over $1.5 million from the
National Science Foundation's Scholarships for Service program to be used
for scholarships for students who are no more than 4 semesters from
graduation and who wish to focus in computer security. The scholarships are
extremely generous: they cover the full tuition, a bit of the fees, and in
addition have a $20,000/year stipend. The "for service" part is that you are
obligated to take a job with some unit of the federal, state, or some local
government for 1-2 years after graduation (in computer security, paying the
standard government rate). US citizenship is required.

	If you are interested, please apply immediately.


More details:

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The Computer Science Department in collaboration with the IGERT in
Electronic Security and Privacy (ESP-IGERT) has obtained five prestigious
NSF scholarships for its undergraduate students as part of the federal
Scholarship for Service program. The goal of this federal program is to
train and support students in information assurance and cybersecurity and
increase the number of federal professionals in this field.

Students who are awarded these scholarships will receive financial support
for up to two years and excellent opportunities to work for the federal
government after they graduate.

Benefits (renewable for a total scholarship time of up to two years, subject
to satisfactory progress)
- Full tuition and fees waivers
- A stipend of $20'000/year
- Professional development support of $3000/year to pay for travel to
federal job fairs and conferences
- Book Allowance of $1000/year

Eligibility
- US citizenship
- Full-time student within two years of graduation


Further requirements
- Must commit to working for a federal agency after graduation for a period
of time equal to the length of support after graduation (federal requirement
for scholarship recipients)
- Must commit to focus coursework on computing security with required
courses and activities including CS 487 and CS 450 and others to be
announced shortly
- Must commit to go at the annual federal job fair and conference organized
by the SFS program.

Application Deadline (Extended): Monday September 10, 2012.
URL:
http://securityigert.uic.edu/news/cybercorps-scholarships-for-service-sfs-pr
ogram

Application procedure
To apply, you must submit a letter and current (unofficial) transcript. The
letter must state:
- That it is an application for SFS Scholarship in Computer Security
- That you are a US citizen
- The number of credit hours you've completed prior to this semester
- The number of full time semesters until you will graduate
- The overall GPA and the GPA in Computer Science
- A four semester or shorter plan of courses that leads to graduation
- The name of at least one faculty reference Email the application letter
and transcripts to our email at:securityigert at uic.edu

For more information about the federal SFS program that awarded these
scholarships to the CS Department, visit the
webpageathttps://www.sfs.opm.gov/ For any further questions, don't hesitate
to contact us at securityigert at uic.edu