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---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Lynda Barnes lbarnes@cs.toronto.edu Date: Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 9:15 PM Subject: Ada Lovelace Fellowship for 2nd Year Doctoral Students To: aspuru@cs.toronto.edu, jacobson@cs.toronto.edu, < anikolov@cs.toronto.edu>, bor@cs.toronto.edu, Nyulik@gmail.com, < ashton@cs.toronto.edu>, ccc@cs.toronto.edu, mcosmin@cs.toronto.edu, < droy@utstat.utoronto.ca>, duvenaud@cs.toronto.edu, < diwlevin@cs.toronto.edu>, delara@cs.toronto.edu, faith@cs.toronto.edu, < frank@spoclab.com>, pekhimenko@cs.toronto.edu, hinton@cs.toronto.edu, < kyros@cs.toronto.edu>, chechik@cs.toronto.edu, marzyeh@cs.toronto.edu, < nisarg@cs.toronto.edu>, urtasun@cs.toronto.edu, ravin@cs.toronto.edu, < tovi@cs.toronto.edu>, zemel@cs.toronto.edu, sheila@cs.toronto.edu, < ishtiaque@cs.toronto.edu>, toni@cs.toronto.edu, yangxu@cs.toronto.edu, < Zhaolei.Zhang@utoronto.ca>, fidler@cs.toronto.edu, Grad Chair < gh@cs.toronto.edu>

Dear Faculty

Our records indicate that you have Students that would be eligible for this Fellowship.

Microsoft is offering the Ada Lovelace Fellowship to Doctoral Student in their Second year of PhD studies. Nominations should be submitted to gradprograms@cs.toronto.edu by August 10th for review by the Graduate Chair. Below is the Eligibility Criteria.

*Eligibility criteria*

- Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Fellows should support this mission and embrace opportunities to foster diverse and inclusive cultures within their communities. - PhD students must be nominated by their university, and their nomination must be submitted by the office of the chair of the department. - Students must be enrolled at a university in the United States, Canada, or Mexico. - Proposed research must be closely related to the general research areas carried out by Microsoft Research as noted in the *Research areas* tab above. - Students must be in their second year of a PhD program in the fall semester or quarter of 2019. The department chair’s office at the nominating university will need to attest that the student is considered a second year PhD student having taken into account transfers, approved leaves of absence, etc. - A maximum of three nominations per department will be accepted; each nominee should help us increase the opportunities for students who are underrepresented in the field of computing. This includes those who self-identify as a woman, African American, Black, Hispanic, Latinx, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and/or person with a disability. - The recipient must remain an active, full-time student in a PhD program during the three consecutive academic years of the award or forfeit the award. Fellowships are not available for extension; however, leaves of absence will be considered on a case by case basis. - Payment of the award, as described above, will be made directly to the university and dispersed according to the university’s policies. Microsoft will have discretion as to how any remaining funds will be used if the student is no longer qualified to receive funding (e.g. if the student unenrolls from the program, graduates, or transfers to a different university). - A recipient of the Microsoft Research Ada Lovelace Fellowship may not receive another fellowship from another company or institution during the same academic period. Fellows accepting multiple fellowships may become ineligible to receive continued funding from Microsoft. Microsoft will at its sole discretion consider a joint fellowship with a government or non-profit organization.