Google thrives on academic curiosity. While we do significant in-house research and engineering, we also maintain strong relations with leading academic institutions world-wide pursuing research in areas of common interest. As part of our mission to build the most advanced and usable methods for information access, we support university research, technological innovation and the teaching and learning experience through a variety of programs. See also our frequently asked questions about university relations.
We offer a limited number of awards through the Faculty Research Awards program. The next deadline for proposal submissions is April 15, 2012.
We have launched a new awards program for university faculty, Google App Engine Research Awards. Selected faculty will be offered $60,000 in App Engine credits to conduct research on App Engine over the course of 12 months. Proposals need to be submitted by May 11, 2012.
We fund specific research in areas of study that are of key interest to Google as well as the research community, through our Google Focused Research Awards program.
Google and the WPP Group have teamed up to fund research into how online media influences consumer behavior.
Faculty can apply for research access to Google Translate to conduct interesting research using Google's translation infrastructure. We offer APIs for many of our products, including Google+, Android, and Google Maps. We also provide access to code and Google App Engine for developing applications on Google infrastructure.
Through the Cluster Exploratory (CluE) program, NSF-funded researchers can use software and services running on a Google-IBM cluster to explore innovative research ideas in data-intensive computing: NSF CluE.
Google hosts Creative Commons-licensed educational resources for computer science educators and motivated students. Check out the Google Code University.
Each year, faculty members across a broad range of computing disciplines visit Google to explore the latest research and technology results and discuss the challenges the community faces.
See videos and presentations from previous Faculty Summits.
Through the Google Visiting Faculty Program, faculty are invited for 6-12 month periods to join Google research teams on projects of mutual interest.
Google Exacycle for Visiting Faculty is a new grant program that focuses on massively distributed batch computation with hundreds of millions of autonomous work units. The program's goal is to award a total of approximately one billion core-hours to research projects in fields such as bio-medicine, energy, finance, entertainment and agriculture.
Google Exacycle for Visiting Faculty is an extension of the Google Visiting Faculty Program.
For current students, we offer numerous types of internships and a variety of scholarships:
Google now offers internship opportunities throughout the year. At present, we have opportunities for graduates studying all subjects such as computer science and mathematics.
As part of our ongoing commitment to advancing computing and technology, we provide scholarships to encourage students to excel in their studies and become role models and leaders.
This is our program to introduce students to open source development and real-world programming challenges. We've already seen more than 1500 students successfully complete the program, and we have provided more than $10 million in open source funding through a combination of student stipends and donations to the participating open source organizations. Visit the Google Summer of Code website.
Google Apps Education Edition is a free suite of hosted communication & collaboration applications designed for schools and universities. Find out more at the the Google Apps Education Edition website.
Knol is a free web publishing tool which allows you to share your research with colleagues, students and the world via the web. Like academic papers, Knol highlights authorship. For more information on Knol, please visit the knol website.
Google supports an exciting effort to reach out to high school (and K-8) teachers to provide resources to help them teach computer science principles to their students in a fun and relevant way. Find out more at the CS4HS website.
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