The NCSU CUSP will meet four specific objectives. It prepares students to take advantage of computing advances and make sophisticated computing an integral part of the statistical and mathematical methodology curriculum and research experience; improves students' non-technical skills, including public speaking and written communication, working in teams, and ethical reasoning provides the research experience to apply initiative and creativity in developing statistical and computing approaches to interdisciplinary scientific problems; and prepares and motivates a diverse pool of highly qualified students to pursue interdisciplinary graduate studies in the mathematical and computational sciences.