Founded with an endowment by the supercomputer manufacturer Cray Inc., the fellowship is named in honor of the late Ken Kennedy, a Rice computing pioneer who founded the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology (formerly the Computer and Information Technology Institute) and served on Cray’s board of directors.
Special consideration will be given to applicants whose research focuses on High Performance Computing.
REQUIREMENTS and IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
- Candidate must be registered at Rice for the entire calendar year for which he/she is nominated
- Candidate must not be in his/her last year of study and must be willing to visit with Cray.
- Candidate should be willing to consider a paid internship
- Fellowship amount: $7,500 disbursed as follows
- Student: $5,000 (paid on top of the student’s current stipend).
- Advisor: $1,000 (to a designated fund managed by student’s advisor)
- Travel award: $1,500 in support of industry/research student travel
- All recipients will be required to prepare and present a poster during the 2018 Oil and Gas Conference (Tuesday, March 6, 2018)