The Initiative, a 10-year plan to provide greater work-related flexibility to women and men in research careers, is run by the National Science Foundation (NSF), which is the leading source of Federal grants for many fields that are crucial to US technology development and job creation, including computer science, mathematics, and the social sciences.
For the first time, applications were invited in the fields of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics.
Candidates must be undertaking research in the life or physical sciences, computer science, engineering, mathematics.
Computer science, engineering, mathematics, psychology, science education and social sciences are not eligible for this Fellowship.
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With free online courses in Computer Science, Programming, Mathematics, General Science and Entrepreneurship, Udacity has over 700, 000 users and an innovative revenue model that includes both certification for completed courses as well as a job referral services.
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According to the Council of Graduate Schools, temporary residents in 2010 comprised 45.3 percent of graduate students in engineering and 42.9 percent of graduate students in mathematics and computer science.
Dominated at the moment by courses in mathematics, computer science, and engineering, MOOCs may be ill-equipped to teach students to write and express themselves or to provide the hands-on experience of working in a lab.
And they teach English and computer science and ordinary science subjects and mathematics as well.
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After earning mathematics and computer-science degrees at Eastern Michigan University, Chinese national Maria Zhang worked for Microsoft and Zillow, an online real-estate firm, before starting a mobile technology company, called Propeld, in Bellevue in late 2010.
According to the National Science Foundation, during the last half-century, foreign-born students earned three-quarters of U.S. doctorate degrees in mathematics, engineering and computer science.
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Biochemistry (No. 2), computer science (No. 3), applied mathematics (No. 10), mathematics (No. 11), physics (No. 14) and statistics (No. 15) majors are increasingly in demand and well-paid.
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