Sigal Oren has been selected as one of the recipients for this year's Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship. The Fellowship is a two-year fellowship program for outstanding PhD students nominated by their universities. This program supports men and women in their third and fourth years of PhD graduate studies. The fellowship recipient award will cover 100 percent of the tuition and fees for two academic years. A stipend is provided to cover living expenses while in school; and a conference and travel allowance is provided for recipients to attend professional conferences or seminars. All recipients are also offered the opportunity to complete one salaried internship over the duration of the year following the award.

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Carla Gomes and Institute for Computational Sustainability (ICS) wildlife corridor design research are being featured in Inside Science, an independent research news and information service on science, engineering, mathematics, and related fields intended for general audiences. The article looks at the importance of connecting fragmented species and the computational difficulty in developing these tools for use with multiple species.

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Ashutosh Saxena won a Google Faculty Research Award for his work on 3D Scene Understanding. The purpose of the Google Faculty Research Awards program is to facilitate more interaction between Google and academia and also nurture stronger relations and partnerships with universities. The intent of the awards program is to support academic research aimed at improving information access (defined broadly). Google funds Research Awards unrestricted and retains no intellectual property from the research. We prefer if the results from the research are open sourced and widely published. Awards through this program are for one year in the range from $10K-$150K.

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Robert Escriva was selected as one of two recipients of the VMWare Graduate Fellowship for 2012/13. The new VMware Graduate Fellowships are awarded to outstanding students pursuing research related to VMware's business interests. A small number of academic departments are invited to nominate up to two of their Ph.D. candidates for consideration, and a total of two awards will be granted. The fellowship includes a cash award to cover tuition and stipend for 12 months.

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Each year the CRA (Computer Research Associates) gives out awards for undergraduate research. Justin Cheng '12 is a 2012 winner of the Computing Research Association's (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award. Alec Story and Eunsol Choi both got an Honorable Mention.

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Joe Halpern has been named a Fellow of the IEEE (starting in January, 2012). IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation.

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David Easley and Jon Kleinberg have been awarded the 2011 Lanchester Prize by INFORMS, the professional society for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, for their book "Networks, Crowds, and Markets". The Lanchester Prize is awarded annually "for the best contribution to operations research and the management sciences published in English. The prize includes a commemorative medallion and a US $5,000 cash award. The award is given each year at the National Meeting if there is a suitable recipient.

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Tanzeem Choudhury's research on using mobile devices to enhance mental health was featured in the Chronicle last fall.

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Johannes Gehrke is one of the two faculty winners of the 2011 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists; he won for his work on datamining and database security. The New York Academy of Sciences Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists acknowledge and celebrate the excellence of our most noteworthy young scientists and engineers in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. The Awards recognize highly innovative, impactful, and interdisciplinary accomplishments in the life sciences, physical sciences, mathematics, and engineering with unrestricted financial prizes for both finalists and awardees. Each winner in the faculty category was endowed with $25,000 in unrestricted funds.

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John Hopcroft was presented with an Honorary doctoral degree from Beijing Institute of Technology Oct 27.

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