[Okgrantsmanship] University of Central Arkansas Research Experience for Undergraduates in Health Information Technology

[Mason, Linda]

Forwarding on behalf of Vamsi Paruchuri (vparuchuri at uca.edu) and Yu Sun
(yusun at uca.edu) of U Central Arkansas. Please reply directly to them.

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SUMMARY:

REU: HIT @ UCA
Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) in Applied Research
in Health Information Technology University of Central Arkansas,
Department of Computer Science Applications due Saturday March 24 2012
http://sun0.cs.uca.edu/reu/

DETAILS:

This Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) project is a nine week
program where students work collaboratively on a wide variety of
computational science projects.

Ten undergraduate students will be selected to participate in this
program, to conduct research with active and experienced research
faculty.

The students will have the opportunity to interact with computer
scientists, medical physicists, and industry personnel.

The students will be able to work alongside faculty and graduate
students on cutting edge research in Computational Sciences related to
HIT.

Benefits and Highlights

The technology and research skills learned will have general
applicability to research and practice in their future studies.

We provide a close collaboration with our industry partners.

In addition to work on assigned research projects, special field trips
to major local companies and universities will be arranged to help the
students better understand real-life applications.

* Nine-week high-quality applied research program
* Intern with active and experienced research faculty
* Graduate School and career orientation sessions throughout the program
* Students will get trained to do both individual and collaborative
research
* Students learn to write quality research papers and present research
work

The project provides undergraduate students with competitive research
experience to tackle a variety of significant HIT problems, in the
following areas:

* Image Processing
* Data Mining
* Health Informatics
* Mobile Device Programming
* Software Engineering
* Security and Privacy

Important Dates
* Application Deadline: Saturday March 24, 2012
* Notification of Decision: Friday April 6,2012
* Intention for Participation Due: Wednesday April 11,2012
* Program Dates (9 weeks): May 20 - July 21 2012

Benefits
* $4,500 stipend
* About $2,000 food/travel allowances
* Hands-on research experience
* Graduate school preparation
* Visits to state-of-the-art facilities labs
* Excursions and weekend outings

Qualifications
* US citizen or permanent resident
* Sophomore or above in CS or related field
* GPA 2.7 or above
* Programming knowledge in Java or C++
* Special welcome to applicants from underrepresented student groups

Contact
reu at uca.edu
http://sun0.cs.uca.edu/reu/

For questions or concerns regarding tbese requirements, kindly contact:

Vamsi Paruchuri (vparuchuri at uca.edu, 501-852-8537) Yu Sun
(yusun at uca.edu, 501-450-3401)