Wayne State University offers graduate research and training opportunities in Scientific Computing, funded by the National Science Foundation's Integrated Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Program. This program is designed for graduate students who are interested in combining studies in the physical sciences, life sciences, and/or engineering with computer science and applied mathematics.

Applications are now being accepted for students to enter the program. Fellows receive a stipend of $27,500/year with health care, and payment of all fees and tuition. Satisfactory progress is required to retain this fellowship support.

Wayne State University is an urban commuter institution in Detroit Michigan, with a total student enrollment of over 33,050 students of which Non-resident Alien 9.8%, American Indian or Alaskan Native 0.39%, Asian or Pacific Islander 5.6%, Black non-Hispanic 26%, Hispanic 2.1%, White non-Hispanic 49.5%, Race unknown 6.6% (Fall 2003). This makes Wayne the third largest school in state. While the school does not lead the state in student enrollment, Wayne has a history of supporting minority students in an effort to address the issue of diversity within various professions at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Annually, Wayne ranks in the top five nationally, in terms of the amount of bachelor degrees awarded to students of African decent.

The University as well as its department of computer science is committed to increasing the level of diversity as it relates to the NSF-IGERT fellowship program and strongly urge interested underrepresented students to make inquiries or to apply to this program.

Course Annoucement Winter 2005: High Performance Computing Programming and Applications