Student Resources
GRANTS
NIH F31 Grant: Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (must be US citizen to apply)
DATA SCIENCE INTERNSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS
The Data Incubator: The Data Incubator is a Cornell-funded data science training organization. We run an 8-week fellowship for PhDs looking to enter industry.
Insight Data Science Fellowship: Intensive seven week post-doctoral training fellowship bridging the gap between academia and data science
The InSITE Fellowship is a highly competitive leadership development program comprised of exceptional graduate students at top universities
Mozilla Open Fellowships: A collaboration between Ford Foundation and Mozilla – is an international leadership initiative that brings together technology talent and civil society organizations to advance and protect the open Web.
Bloomberg Data Science PhD Fellowship: Fellowship for PhDs in their third year or higher. Covers tuition, stipend and conferences. Includes a 12-week summer internship at Bloomberg.
SCIENCE POLICY OPPORTUNITIES
ASBMB Hill Day: The ASBMB Public Affairs Advisory Committee sponsors an annual Capitol Hill Day in which students and postdocs from around the country come to Washington D.C. to meet with their congressional representatives.
Access a more comprehensive list of policy fellowships here
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
The Solution Lab: Provides opportunities for volunteers to work directly with clients to solve real challenges facing their business. In doing so, volunteers build their skill sets beyond the academic and help them prepare for a career in business.
World Science Festival: Annual NYC festival "taking science out of the laboratory and into the streets, theatres, museums, and public halls of New York City, making the esoteric understandable and the familiar fascinating."
PROGRAMMING RESOURCES
Data science R Basics edx by Ralph Irizarry
Data science foundations in R coursera
Biostatistics in Public Health coursera
Discovering Statistics with R by Andy Field
DATA SCIENCE COMPETITIONS
KDD Cup: annual Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery competition organized by ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, the leading professional organization of data miners.
AMIA Student Design Challenge: students from different scientific disciplines and of various backgrounds proposed creative solutions to a specified problem related to healthcare.
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