Category: Scholarship

Axxess’ Gift Establishes New Computer Science Scholarship Fund Axxess, a health care technology company founded by its CEO and University of Texas at Dallas alumnus John Olajide BS’04, has donated $500,000 to establish the Axxess Scholars Program for computer science students. In honor of Axxess’ contributions, the atrium of the Engineering and Computer Science West […]

University Welcomes Newest Class of McDermott Scholars This Fall The Eugene McDermott Scholars Program at The University of Texas at Dallas has selected 16 students to make up its 2018 incoming class. The program provides these select students with UT Dallas’ rigorous and personalized education, along with a four-year program of intensive extracurricular activities. McDermott Scholars have access […]

36 Students Head Off to Houston for the 2016 International Grace Hopper Conference This October, 36 young women majoring in computer science and software engineering and six UT Dallas CS faculty members, made their way to Houston, TX, for the annual International Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Technology (GHC) Conference. The Grace Hopper Conference is designed to bring the research and career interests […]

Twenty-Seven CS Students Celebrate ‘Our Time to Lead’ at the 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Technology This October, Twenty-Seven UT Dallas female Computer Science and Software Engineers and five UT Dallas CS faculty members, made their way to Houston, TX, for the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Technology (GHC) Conference. The […]

CS Department Institutes the Research Excellence Scholarship Program for top 1st year PhD students This year the UT Dallas Computer Science Department established the Research Excellence Scholarship for 1st year Computer Science and Software Engineering PhD students. The PhD Admissions Committee selected five students from the fall 2015 incoming applicant pool to the PhD program […]

UT Dallas’ Computer Science Department visited by 200 teachers from the Computer Science Teachers’ Association Two hundred computer science high school teachers attending the national Computer Science Teachers’ Association (CSTA) conference visited UT Dallas for an evening event. The UT Dallas Computer Science department hosted the teachers to show them the facilities and teaching resources, […]

CyberCorps®: Scholarship for Service Program Trains Future Cybersecurity Workforce Threats to the nation’s information technology infrastructure are real. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has partnered with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create the CyberCorps®: Scholarship for Service (SFS) program to support educational efforts in cybersecurity to produce the workforce that will defend against […]