APS GDS Education Fellowship Application
We have been awarded a small grant from the American Physical Society to incorporate data science into the physics curriculum. As you are probably aware, a greater number of physicists are using data science as part of their research and our students/postdocs are also finding jobs in industry based on their skills in data science. While some institutions have the resources to develop full courses on data science in physics, for many, a strategy of incorporating data science into the existing curriculum will be more useful. We will award several fellowships to graduate students and postdocs to develop these curricular units. The compensation would be $5000 for the calendar year. We expect that the effort would take approximately 2 hours/week. The fellows would be expected to develop 2-3 curricular units, which would include lesson plans, exam questions, and notebooks. There would be a workshop for them to attend during summer 2022 and they would test the units they develop locally.
We would appreciate it if you can advertise this opportunity to the graduate students and postdocs in your department. They can apply here. Sadly, for students/postdocs studying/working within the US, we can only pay American citizens/green card holders. We can pay graduate students/postdocs who are studying/working outside of the US (including non US citizens/green card holders). Applications received before January 13th, 2022 will receive full consideration.
We would also appreciate it if you could let faculty in your department know about our efforts in case they want to become involved!
Best,
Maria Longobardi, Wolfgang Losert, Alexis Knaub, William Ratcliff
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