Scholarships
To nurture cyberinfrastructure practitioners, and as part of the WHPC initiative, the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC), a division within Purdue IT, extends partial travel assistance to undergraduate and graduate students, empowering their participation in various national conferences aligning with WHPC's objectives. Applicants are assessed on their demonstrated experience with advanced computation and must explain what they hope to gain from participating in the conference. To be eligible, an applicant must identify as a woman and be an undergrad or graduate student maintaining good academic standing. For full eligibility requirements and to apply for this scholarship, please review the eligibility section and complete scholarship guidelines below.
Conferences
We will review all applications 60 days in advance of relevant conferences, such as Society of Women Engineers, Grace Hopper, and others, in order to ensure equal opportunity is given to all applicants. If we still have scholarship spots for a conference available after this we will review any additional applications 30 days in advance. We will update the website accordingly to reflect when all spots have been allocated.
Other Conferences
A list of conferences in which applications still being accepted include:
- Research Software Engineer (RSE)
- SIGGRAPH
- SIGCOMM
- ESWEEK
- RecSys
- HLF
- Game Developers Confererce (GDC)
- IEEEVR
- ACM Conferences
We also will consider applications for other technical conferences.
The following scholarship applications closed thru 6/30/2025:Eligibility
This partial grant opportunity is available to any undergraduate and graduate student who identifies as a women and is in good academic standing with a GPA of 2.50 or higher. Preference will be given to students that submit a poster or technical paper to the conference, and applicants must be attending the conference in-person to be eligible. Please see the Scholarship Guidelines document for more details.
Application questions include, but are not limited to the following:
- Essay (around 250 words)
- Discuss your research and professional interests (technology).
- Describe in detail how you and your Purdue community will benefit from your participation at the conference.
- Experience with HPC (High Performance Computing)
- Describe how you will benefit from attending the conference and how it relates to your academic and career goals
How to Apply for Travel Support
To apply to a conference, complete this survey no later than 30 days prior to the conference start date.
Contact our WHPC staff at whpc@purdue.edu for more information.