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The Horizons Fellowship  supports 150 outstanding university students in their pursuit to become leaders in technology. Our tuition-free programs provide immersive software engineering and web/mobile development courses geared towards high-achieving college students. Students need not have a computer science background! Our curriculum, developed by ex-Salesforce and Optimizely engineers alongside PhD candidates in computer science, is designed to teach students how to build web, mobile, and desktop applications. Horizons students have gone on to receive offers from firms such as  Google, Slack, Yelp, Amazon, BCG, Visa, J.P. Morgan, and more  Past Horizonites have come from a variety of schools and backgrounds. Students have hailed from Harvard, Princeton, Yale, UPenn/Wharton, Columbia, Northwestern, Brown, Michigan and more. We've welcomed National Math Olympiad winners, USA Computing Olympiad participants, renowned college entrepreneurs, students with perfect SAT/ACT...

The Horizons One Fellowship The Horizons One Fellowship supports 15 outstanding university students in their pursuit to become leaders in technology. The program provides immersive software engineering and web/mobile development courses geared towards high-achieving college students. It also provides Fellows a full-year of industry experience as a software engineer at a high-growth company. Students need not have a computer science background! Our curriculum, developed by ex-Salesforce and Optimizely engineers alongside PhDs in computer science, is designed to teach students how to build web, mobile, and desktop applications. We have 2-year, 4-month and 3-month programs in cities across the U.S. Our Horizons Speaker Series brings in successful founders, investors, and technologists into the classroom. You'll hear from some of the industry's foremost experts. We've had some amazing speakers like the founders of Zenefits, Coinbase, Digital Ocean, Andela, x.ai, Shapewa...

Are you a graduating BS, MS or PhD student or professional in engineering, math or computer science looking to transition to a career in big data infrastructure engineering? Do you want a career that leverages your engineering and CS fundamentals in the fast-growing, in-demand, technically challenging field of big data?   http://insightdataengineering.com Silicon Valley technology companies like Facebook, Square, Microsoft, Palantir and many others are hiring data engineers to help them store and efficiently query the terabytes of data they collect everyday. While the amount of data produced is growing exponentially, there is a severe shortage of top engineering talent to build the infrastructure and data pipelines necessary to to extract insights from this data. The Insight Data Engineering Fellows Program is a professional training fellowship designed to help engineers from various backgrounds, as well as mathematicians, and computer scientists, transition to careers i...

CS Grads: Please consider applying for the IBM PhD Fellowship that "honors exceptional Ph.D. students who have an interest in solving problems that are important to IBM and fundamental to innovation in many academic disciplines and areas of study." Details can be found at http://www.research.ibm.com/university/phdfellowship/ . Note that nominations should be submitted directly by a faculty member and you do not need to go through the grad office. thanks, S. Keshav Graduate Director Cheriton School of Computer Science

CS PhD students: I have just received instructions from Google on how to submit applications for Google PhD Fellowships. To apply, you must be nominated by the School, and the School can nominate at most two students. To be eligible, you must have completed your graduate coursework in the PhD program and be embarking on or continuing your graduate research in the fall of 2013. More details are at: http://research.google.com/university/relations/phd_fellowships.html To apply for this fellowship, please use the new CS scholarships online application site at: http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/scholarships We will evaluate your completed applications on January 30th. Therefore, you should complete your online application, especially the names of your two or three referees, as soon as possible, so that we can solicit letters of reference in time. thanks, S. Keshav Graduate Director Cheriton School of Computer Science

The Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) Summer Research Fellowships in Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics or related ethics and policy research are available to undergraduate students again in 2013. The deadline for applications is March 4, 2013. OGI Summer Research Fellowships offer undergraduate students studying at Ontario universities unique opportunities to engage in meaningful, real-life research in the areas of genomics, proteomics, bioinformatics or related ethical, economic, environmental, legal or social issues (“GE3LS”). Under the direction of a supervisor in academia or industry*, Fellows will conduct research in one of these areas in a laboratory or other appropriate academic or industrial setting. *OGI will provide assistance with finding a supervisor for anyone interested in applying for an industrial fellowship. These Fellowships not only provide students with the opportunity to gain research experience, but also include a mandatory orientation session at OGI, parti...

University of Waterloo students are invited to apply to the third annual NYC Turing Fellowship, a program that matches outstanding computer science and engineering students (undergraduates and graduates) with paid summer internships at leading NYC startups. The program provides exposure to the rapidly growing NYC ecosystem and the opportunity to meet with some of the best entrepreneurs, founders, and technologists in the country. Students also benefit from a summer curriculum consisting of networking and mentoring events (last year included: Yankees Game, MoMA tour, and “Tech Talks” with Dennis Crowley of Foursquare and Esther Dyson). Details: Participating startups include bit.ly, ZocDoc, SecondMarket, Knewton, and more. We are now accepting applications on a rolling basis. The final deadline is February 8th but we strongly encourage students to apply early. A group of up to 45 Semi-Finalists will be invited to NYC on Saturday, March 2nd (expenses paid) to interview with particip...