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We are thrilled to announce and congratulate the 2009 Google US Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship winners!

The 2009 Google Anita Borg Scholarship Recipients

  • Jennifer Roberts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Sheena Lewis, Northwestern University
  • Ramya Raghavendra, University of California-Santa Barbara
  • Saleema Amershi, University of Washington
  • Divya Ramachandran, University of California-Berkeley
  • Leshell Hatley, University of Maryland College Park
  • Sara Sinclair, Dartmouth College
  • Mary David, University of Southern California
  • Dana Forsthoefel, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Manjari Narayan, Rice University
  • Yi-Chieh Wu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Sarah Cooley, Oregon State University
  • Katherine Corner, University of Colorado at Boulder
  • Natalie Freed, Arizona State University Main
  • Sarah Loos, Indiana University Bloomington
  • Isabel Mattos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Norma Savage, Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico (will be attending University of California-Santa Barbara)
  • Elaine Short, Yale University
  • Xuexin (Alice) Zhu, Harvey Mudd College
  • YoungJoo Jeong, Carnegie Mellon University

The 2009 Google Anita Borg Scholarship Finalists

  • Cindy Rubio Gonzalez, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Maria Kazandjieva, Stanford University
  • Rachel Sealfon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Shilpa Arora, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Pinar Muyan-Ozcelik, University of California-Davis
  • Kristi Morton, University of Washington
  • Carrie Ruppar, TBD
  • Ekaterina Gonina, University of California-Berkeley
  • Kelli Ireland, University of Pittsburgh
  • Xia Zhou, University of California-Santa Barbara
  • Corey Toler-Franklin, Princeton University
  • Chaitrali Amrutkar, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Krystle de Mesa, University of California, San Diego
  • Sonal Gupta, University of Texas at Austin
  • Sujatha Nagarajan, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Julia Schwarz, University of Washington
  • Wendy Stevenson, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
  • Supriya Vadlamani, Cornell University
  • Tracy Chou, Stanford University
  • Alyssa Daw, California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
  • Rachelle Fuhrer, University of California, San Diego
  • Jennifer Harrison, Arizona State University
  • Margaret Leibovic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Sneha Popley, Texas Christian University
  • Kyle Rector, Oregon State University
  • Jacinda Shelly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Sarah Shiplett, Wellesley College
  • Manasi Vartak, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  • Angela Yen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Valerie Yoder, Westminster College
For more information on our scholarship programs, please visit www.google.com/jobs/scholarships

Talent & Outreach Programs

Want a challenge? Want to go to Cannes? Under 29? Enjoy going a full weekend without sleep? We have something for you.

Want a challenge? Want to go to Cannes? Under 29? Enjoy going a full weekend without sleep? We have something for you.



Every year young creative minds from all over the world compete in 48 hour film contests where - if they make the best advert in the given time - they win a trip to the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival to represent their countries at the Young Lions competition. This year we're sending two of you.

You will need to make an ad in 48 hours - we'll release the brief for the ad at the beginning of this period - and once submitted, you'll get two weeks to get the ad as many views, ratings and votes on the channel as possible. Then, sit tight. The two best entrants as picked by our expert panel will win an all-expense-paid trip to the Festival to make up Team YouTube at the Cannes Lions.

For now, go to the channel, subscribe to receive updates, and await further instruction. Brief released Friday May 15th, at midnight GMT. You'll have until midnight Sunday May 17th to get the ad uploaded and submitted to the contest.

The Young Lions competition is a prestigious but frantic week of creativity where the teams of two from all over the world compete in timed challenges to create ads for different briefs, in between training sessions from industry luminaries. An inherent part of the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, one of the world's premiere advertising festivals, it's an ideal place for any young creative person to get exposure and open doors for their career.

Good luck.


Posted by Stephanie Hollywood, University Programmes

Google for Students has made its way to Twitter! Check out our daily updates at @googlestudents.
Google for Students has made its way to Twitter! Check out our daily updates at @googlestudents.

Today is Earth Day. What are you doing to celebrate? Googlers around the world are celebrating in many different ways, some of which you can read about here.
Today is Earth Day. What are you doing to celebrate? Googlers around the world are celebrating in many different ways, some of which you can read about here.

Even our homepage has gotten in on the fun with another innovative doodle:


For tips and ideas on how you can go green for Earth Day and beyond, check out YouTube's Live Green Channel. Through simple steps like getting a houseplant you too can live a little greener.

Congratulations are in order for the students of the University of Maine at Farmington - 24% of them took the Climate Savers Computing Initiative's Power Down for the Planet pledge to support more efficient computing, besting 18 other universities. You can still take the pledge to adopt green computing practices. For more information, visit http://www.powerdownfortheplanet.org/.

Have any conservation tips or want to share how you are celebrating your Earth Day - tell us all about it in the comments!


Google is proud to partner with Lime on launching a new scholarship program: Google Lime Scholarship for Students with Disabilities.

To be eligible for the Google Lime Scholarship, applicants must satisfy the following criteria:
  • a student entering their junior or senior year of undergraduate study or be enrolled in a graduate program in the 2009-2010 academic year at a university in the United States or Canada (in addition to US and Canada citizens, international students with disabilities studying at universities in the US or Canada are also encouraged to apply);
  • enrolled in Computer Science or Computer Engineering program, or a closely related technical field as a full-time student for the 2009-2010 academic year;
  • a person with a disability (defined as someone who has, or considers themselves to have, a long-term, or recurring, issue that impacts one or more activities that others may consider a daily function). This definition also includes the perception among others that a disability exists.
For complete details, please visit www.google.com/jobs/scholarships or read our blog posting on the Official Google Blog.

Deadline to apply: June 1, 2009

At Google, we are committed to helping the innovators of the future make the most of their gifts. As part of this commitment to build and retain a strong and diverse talent pool in computer science, we’ve created the Google FUSE program. This summer, FUSE will provide an opportunity for successful and invested first year computer science students who are historically underrepresented in the field to connect with one another and with Google. We’ll be bringing rising college sophomores from across the US and Canada to our New York office for two days of networking, learning, and fun.
At Google, we are committed to helping the innovators of the future make the most of their gifts. As part of this commitment to build and retain a strong and diverse talent pool in computer science, we’ve created the Google FUSE program. This summer, FUSE will provide an opportunity for successful and invested first year computer science students who are historically underrepresented in the field to connect with one another and with Google. We’ll be bringing rising college sophomores from across the US and Canada to our New York office for two days of networking, learning, and fun.

Our goal is to form a network that will allow these top rising sophomores to learn about the research, academic, and industry opportunities that lead to great careers. We also want to make connections between students and Googlers who have paved this path before them.

If you're currently a first year student who has declared a CS or related major and are interested in connecting with other top students, we want to hear from you! Students from historically underrepresented groups in technology -- female, Native American, African American and Hispanic students as well as students with disabilities -- are encouraged to apply.

Learn more at www.google.com/jobs/students/fuse.

Posted by Zach Geller and Hanah Kim, University Programs Specialists

Google Latitude is a service we launched in February that lets you see where your friends are at any given moment. Needless to say, it lends itself to countless fun outdoor activities, from races to treasure hunts. Recently, we decided to get in on the action and gather up some peeps to spell out a message to our dear moms using the icons on the map. Think of it as an early Mother's Day gesture.
Google Latitude is a service we launched in February that lets you see where your friends are at any given moment. Needless to say, it lends itself to countless fun outdoor activities, from races to treasure hunts. Recently, we decided to get in on the action and gather up some peeps to spell out a message to our dear moms using the icons on the map. Think of it as an early Mother's Day gesture.



Of course, not everyone wants to send a message to their mothers (though you really should, because your mom probably misses you). So we whipped up a way for you to customize the message however you want.

Certainly there are many more games one could play with Latitude. I, for one, would like to see someone organize a big game of chess with people as the pieces. Who's up for it? For other creative uses of Latitude, check out the Google Mobile Blog.

Posted by Valdean Klump, Google Creative Lab


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Need a quick distraction from studying? Check out the new Google Apps fansite at www.iheartgoogleapps.com. We've published this site for folks who love and can't live without products like Gmail and Google Docs.

There, you can:
Visit www.iheartgoogleapps.com regularly. We'll be adding new discussion topics each week and holding contests (with prizes!) every month or so.

Happy Friday! To help celebrate the weekend, here's the next video from our weekly "App to School" series. This week we're hearing from a computer information systems major who uses Docs to manage schedule changes at work and Calendar to stay organized across various platforms and devices ...
Happy Friday! To help celebrate the weekend, here's the next video from our weekly "App to School" series. This week we're hearing from a computer information systems major who uses Docs to manage schedule changes at work and Calendar to stay organized across various platforms and devices:



If you have a story to share about interesting and productive ways you're using Google Apps on campus, please upload your video as a response to any of ours - which you can see by visiting our playlist.

And if you're not using Apps on campus yet, check out some of the things you can do by visiting www.google.com/apps/students.