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Release Date: October 16, 2006
UH-Clear Lake receives prestigious NSF Scholarship Award
HOUSTON, October 16, 2006 — University of Houston-Clear Lake received a four-year
$477,200 scholarship award from the National Science Foundation. Under the Scholarship
program in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Scholarship (S-STEM), the grant
funds up to 22 academically able and financial needy undergraduate students annually. Qualified
UH-Clear Lake undergraduate students in computer science, computer information systems,
computer systems engineering and mathematics may receive up to $10,000 scholarship award per
year.
This is the second time UH-Clear Lake has received a major scholarship award from NSF.
The first $400,000 award has already benefited about 50 students in the last four years. Besides
financial support, these awards have created the UH-Clear Lake NSF Scholar Organization. The
Scholars have organized many career advancing activities in the past, including field trips to
surrounding high technology companies, seminars and workshops by Chief Executive Officers,
Chief Technology Officers, Ethics officers, technical directors, motivational speakers, human
resource specialists and career specialists.
Professor of Computer Science and Computer Information Systems Kwok-Bun Yue, the
principal investigator of the grant proposal, describes the grant as a major accomplishment of the
university to assist capable students in the STEM areas.
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“STEM is considered to be among the best job areas by many leading surveys. The demand
for STEM students is projected to increase rapidly in the foreseeable future while the supply has
gone down in recent years. Educators and industry are now talking about a STEM crisis,” says
Yue. “It is a great time to get into STEM majors. This prestigious award will help aspiring
students to accomplish their goals.”
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Computer Information Systems Sharon Hall,
the co-principal investigator of the grant proposal heartily agrees.
“I am so excited to be involved in the effort of finding promising students who can benefit
from this generous scholarship. We have had outstanding scholars through the NSF Scholars
program who are now making a positive impact in our community, and I'm looking forward to
continuing the good work,” asserts Hall. “With the recent accreditation of our computer
information systems program, and the previous accreditation of the computer systems
engineering and computer science programs, UH-Clear Lake has become the first university in
Texas to have three different programs accredited by ABET, the Accreditation Board of
Engineering and Technology.
“This scholarship award will be a major boon for students to enter our quality STEM
programs in math and computing.”
“This award speaks to the quality of our programs and our students,” adds UH-Clear Lake Sr.
Vice President and Provost Edward J. Hayes. “We continue to educate the leaders of tomorrow
and, by offering this scholarship opportunity, we will also continue to provide educational
services to a wide range of students in the area.”
For further information about the scholarship, visit http://sce.uhcl.edu/nsfcsems or e-mail
Yue, yue@uhcl.edu, or Hall, perkins@uhcl.edu.
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University of Houston-Clear Lake offers more than 30 undergraduate and over 40 graduate degree programs from
its four schools, which include the School of Business, School of Education, School of Human Sciences and
Humanities, and School of Science and Computer Engineering. For more information about the university, visit
http://www.uhcl.edu.
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