The Fellowships provide 2 ½ academic years of support with a stipend of $2300 per month; payment of tuition and fees; and a $1500 per year for three years travel allowance to attend relevant conferences. After the fellowship period, students will be supported as Graduate Research Assistants while finishing their Ph.D.
Fellowship holders will have two summer internships at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory or other laboratories conducting relevant research. They will have the opportunity to spend a semester at their partner school – either UNC Charlotte or Georgia Tech – to be able to take courses not available at their home school and to interact with the many faculty and graduate students at their partner school.
The fellowships are provided by a grant from the US Department of Homeland Security, and are available to US Citizens. It is hoped, but not required, that upon graduation, fellowship holders will work at a national laboratory or company in the area of homeland security.
Applicants must apply for admission to either Georgia Tech or UNC Charlotte and separately apply for the Fellowship.
For general information on the UNC Charlotte Information Technology Ph.D. program, visit http://www.cci.uncc.edu/coit_new/phd/phd_overview.cfm. To apply for admission, visit http://www.uncc.edu/gradmiss/prospect.html. To be eligible for the Fellowship, applications for fall 2009 admission are due by January 15, 2009. For further information, you may contact Professor William Tolone, wjtolone@uncc.edu.
For general information on the Georgia Tech Computer Science or Human-Centered Computing Ph.D. programs, visit http://www.cc.gatech.edu/education. To apply for admission, visit http://www.gradadmiss.gatech.edu/apply/. To be eligible for the Fellowship, applications for fall 2009 admission are due by December 15, 2008. For further information, you may contact Professor John Stasko, stasko@cc.gatech.edu. If necessary, a short extension to this date is possible.
To apply for the fellowship (this is separate from PhD program application and required), email the following information to foley@cc.gatech.edu with subject line “DHS Fellowship” by January 15, as a single pdf file named "DHS-yourlastname":