Graduate Student Fellows Program

Call for Applications

The Division of Statistics and Scientific Computation (SSC) is accepting graduate student applications to its applied consulting fellowship program. Funding for the SSC Fellows positions has been made possible by the Office of Graduate Studies.

About the Fellowship

The SSC Graduate Fellows is a one semester appointment that provides guided experience in statistical consulting and data set analysis. Students will learn how to consult on applied problems in a variety of different disciplines and will gain considerable experience in all aspects of the consulting role. Students may concentrate on either statistical or mathematical consulting.

Students will also have the opportunity to gain hands on experience applying statistical methods on data from faculty and researchers across campus. Students will be involved in all aspects of data analysis, from meeting with researchers to discuss the goals and details of their experiments, to analyzing the data, and preparing the results. Details regarding the program are summarized below.

The appointment is for one semester and participants will also be eligible for future positions in the division.
Fellows will receive a 10-hour GRA appointment and, if desired and eligible, an additional 10-hour TA appointment within the division for a total of 20 hours of support.
Graduate Fellows must enroll in SSC 388, the division’s consulting seminar. The course will meet Mondays 1:00 – 4:00 P.M. in Fall 2008.
Details on the distribution of the remaining time towards the appointment will be provided, but expect approximately seven hours per week independent of class time for meetings or assignments.

Eligibility Requirements

Students must meet the following requirements to qualify for the Graduate Fellowship Program:

Students must have 30 hours of graduate study or a Master’s degree.
Students from any department will be considered. However, all applicants should have taken at least two graduate-level statistical, mathematical, or scientific computation courses, covering topics such as regression, ANOVA, experimental design, multivariate analysis, numerical analysis, or optimization. Participants should also have good familiarity with at least one statistical application such as SAS, SPSS, Stata, Matlab, Maple, or R.
Students must not be enrolled in more than 9 credit hours during the semester they are appointed as fellows.
Students must also not exceed 20 total appointment hours during the semester they are appointed, including the SSC appointment.

A limited number of fellows will be accepted each fall semester. Please feel free to apply if you meet the minimum required qualifications listed above. If you are not accepted into the SSC Graduate Fellowship Program this semester, you will be welcome to apply again in future semesters.

How to Apply

You can download an application form here. To be considered for the program two letters of recommendations from faculty are required. The letters of recommendation should address the candidate’s research background and quantitative aptitude. The letters of recommendation, as well as the completed version of the application, can be e-mailed to admin@ssc.utexas.edu or mailed to:

Ms. Sande Storey
Division of Statistics & Scientific Computation
College of Natural Sciences
1 University Station – G 2500
Austin, TX 78712

The letters of recommendation should be sent directly from the faculty writing the letter. The deadline to apply by is April 1st.

If you have any questions, please contact Matt Hersh at mhersh@mail.utexas.edu.