The MUIDSI Gift Fund supports the greatest needs and priorities of our department. Our current priorities include:

Professional Development & Networking

Description: Finance workshops, seminars, conferences, and networking events that connect students with industry professionals and alumni.

Impact: Enhance students’ professional skills and job prospects by providing them with valuable insights, connections, and career guidance.

Graduate Student Fellowship

Description: MU IDSI’s Graduate Fellowship Fund provides support to outstanding graduate students conducting research in data science and informatics during their first year of rotation or their final year of teaching experience.

Impact: Graduate Fellows are researchers, instructors, and scholars who are expanding their academic potential.

Student Travel Award

Description: Attending conferences is one of the most important professional networking opportunities. However, there are limited resources to support student travel. Funds to cover the increasing costs of attending conferences, especially international events, are crucial for students to develop an international network.

Impact: Traveling abroad immerses students in unfamiliar environments that offer opportunities for learning new skills, solving problems, and overcoming challenges unique to international experiences. MU IDSI enhances the graduate student experience by funding capstone projects, dissertation research, and travel to present scholarly work at conferences and other major professional meetings.