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Various Forms and Resources
- Cognitive & Information Sciences program document
- A note regarding SCS / CIS PhD requirements (for pre-CIS SCS students)
- Previous (2012) Annual Progress Report (phased-out template; for information purposes only)
- Ph.D. qualifying exam APPLICATION form (one month before integrative-review paper defense)
- Other forms from the Graduate Division
- Graduate Mentoring Resources
Graduate Grant/Fellowship Opportunities
- Pivot (use UC Merced email to register)
- Internal UC Merced Graduate Awards/Fellowships
- DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
- Google Ph.D. Fellowships
- Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- NRSA F31 (predoctoral fellowship)
- NSF Dissertation Improvement Grants
- 'NSF Funding for Graduate Students
- Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research Program
Postdoctoral Funding Information
- Pivot (use UCM email to register)
- Insight Data Science (industry)
- Data Incubator Data Science (industry)
- NIH F32 and other grants (academic)
Recent Summer Schools
- ATI Nonlinear Methods, U. of Cincinnati
- ATI Data Mining, UC Davis
- ATI Structural Equation Modeling, UC Davis
- ICPSR Summer Program
- IEEE Conference on Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing
- International Spatial Cognition Summer Institute (ISCSI) 2013
- Linguistic Society of America Institute, U. of Michigan
- Language Development: Evolution, Change, Acquisition
- SFI Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Sciences
Presentation Tools and Tips
- CogSci logo in vector graphics (PDF)
- Helpful guide to making a poster presentation (by Ph.D. student Matthews)
- Sample poster presentation by Ph.D. student Kerster [PowerPoint]
- Sample spoken presentation by Ph.D. student Thompson [PowerPoint]
- Sample poster presentation by Ph.D. student Greenwood [PDF]
- Sample poster presentation by Ph.D. student Rodny [PowerPoint]
- Sample poster presentation by Ph.D. student Erickson [PowerPoint]
- Sample poster presentation by Ph.D. student Vinson [Apple Pages]
- Sample spoken presentation by Ph.D. student Szary [Apple Keynote]
- Sample poster presentation by Ph.D. student Abney [PowerPoint]
Programming Tools and Sites
Other useful information may be found on the Graduate Division website, where you can also find the Graduate Policies and Procedures Handbook, and the Graduate Advisors Mentoring Guidelines.