{"id":8,"date":"2018-05-18T13:24:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T13:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickcerconescholarship.ca\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-01-27T15:22:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T15:22:04","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nickcerconescholarship.ca\/","title":{"rendered":"A scholarship in memory of Nick Cercone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-8\" class=\"panel-layout\">\n<div id=\"pg-8-0\" class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" data-style=\"{&quot;padding&quot;:&quot;0px 0px 0px 0px&quot;,&quot;background_image_attachment&quot;:false,&quot;background_display&quot;:&quot;tile&quot;,&quot;bottom_margin&quot;:&quot;5px&quot;,&quot;gutter&quot;:&quot;5px&quot;,&quot;cell_alignment&quot;:&quot;flex-start&quot;}\">\n<div class=\"panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-8-0\">\n<p><!--\n\n\n<div id=\"pgc-8-0-0\" class=\"panel-grid-cell\" data-weight=\"1\">\n\n --><\/p>\n<div id=\"panel-8-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_media_image panel-first-child\" data-index=\"0\" data-style=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;nickpic&quot;,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;nickpicCl&quot;,&quot;widget_css&quot;:&quot;#nickpic{\\n\\tdisplay: block;\\n margin-left: auto;\\n margin-right: auto;\\n}&quot;,&quot;background_image_attachment&quot;:false,&quot;background_display&quot;:&quot;center&quot;}\">\n<div id=\"nickpic\" class=\"nickpicCl panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-8-0-0-0\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-45\" src=\"https:\/\/nickcerconescholarship.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/nick-cercone-obituary-call-donation-300x227.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nickcerconescholarship.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/nick-cercone-obituary-call-donation-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/nickcerconescholarship.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/nick-cercone-obituary-call-donation.png 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In a Canada-wide career, Nick Cercone made significant contributions to several fields in computer science. He was an inspiring mentor to numerous post-docs and graduate students, and had a deep passion for nurturing emerging research talent.<\/p>\n<p>This endowed National Graduate Scholarship honours Nick Cercone. Formally <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ieeecanadianfoundation.org\/EN\/cercone_scholarship.php\">the IEEE Canadian Foundation Nick Cercone Graduate Scholarship in Computer Science<\/a><\/strong>, it recognizes a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at a Canadian university who shows exceptional promise in research that will have real-world applications outside Computer Science and who has been active in helping others.<\/p>\n<p>This scholarship will be awarded every second year, i.e., it will be a biennial award.\u00a0 Starting in 2025, the value of the award is <span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">$7,500.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"panel-8-0-0-1\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_text panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" data-style=\"{&quot;background_image_attachment&quot;:false,&quot;background_display&quot;:&quot;tile&quot;}\">\n<div class=\"textwidget\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Canada-wide career, Nick Cercone made significant contributions to several fields in computer science. He was an inspiring mentor to numerous post-docs and graduate students, and had a deep passion for nurturing emerging research talent. This endowed National Graduate Scholarship honours Nick Cercone. Formally the IEEE Canadian Foundation Nick Cercone Graduate Scholarship in Computer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickcerconescholarship.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickcerconescholarship.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickcerconescholarship.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickcerconescholarship.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickcerconescholarship.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/nickcerconescholarship.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/nickcerconescholarship.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickcerconescholarship.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}