Google Student Blog: May 2009

Study tips to power through finals

May 28, 2009

Summer's just around the corner (or winter, for those in the southern hemisphere!), and while some are already done with school, many still have to turn in essays, problem sets, and exams in the next few weeks. To help out, we put together a few Study Tips to help you get the most out of Google in your academic research. Good luck, and after exams are over, enjoy the break!
And if you need a quick study break, check out the Higher Googling videos from comedy group the Vacationeers:

Posted by Hicham Alaoui, Associate Product Marketing Manager

Spreadsheet gadgets for work or play

May 22, 2009

1. Flash Cards (by Seth Glickman, previous Web Development Intern) - Easily create flashcard sets. HTML is allowed. Ideal for foreign language vocabulary sets, AP Chemistry common ions... anything you'd use flashcards for. Remove cards from view once you know them well enough, shuffle the remaining cards, change languages and more. Try this out.
2. Word Study (by Pamela Fox, Engineer) - Create interactive word games. You can guess using word jumbles, type-ins, or multiple choice, and you can choose to have the hints come from Google Image Search, Google Translate, Wikipedia, or your own spreadsheet. Try this out.

3. Word Search (by Pamela Fox, Engineer) - Create an interactive word search from a column of words in a spreadsheet, with a user-specified number of rows or columns. Try this out.
If you have some free time on your hands this summer, you can even create your own gadgets and applications using our spreadsheet gadgets API and the spreadsheet Data APIs.

Doodling 4 Google

May 20, 2009

Doodle 4 Google competition

the official postPosted by Miriam Schneider, Education marketing team

Congrats to the class of 2009!

May 19, 2009

Larry PageUniversity of Michiganhere

Marissa MayerIllinois Institute of Technology

Eric SchmidtCarnegie Mellon UniversityUniversity of Pennysylvania

Congratulations to the 2009 Google Fellowship recipients

May 15, 2009

(For the full story, please visit the Official Google Blog & Google Research Blog)

Roxana Geambasu, Google Fellowship in Cloud Computing (University of Washington)

Michael Piatek, Google Fellowship in Computer Networking (University of Washington)

David Sontag, Google Fellowship in Machine Learning (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Ali Farhadi, Google Fellowship in Computer Vision Image Interpretation (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Nicholas Chen, Google Fellowship in Human-Computer Interaction (University of Maryland)

Siddhartha Sen, Google Fellowship in Fault Tolerant Computing (Princeton University)

Ryan Peterson, Google Fellowship in Distributed Systems (Cornell University)

Eric Gilbert, Google Fellowship in Social Computing (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Micha Elsner, Google Fellowship in Natural Language Processing (Brown University)

Subhransu Maji, Google Fellowship in Computer Vision Object Recognition (University of California, Berkeley)

Nicolas Lambert, Google Fellowship in Market Algorithms (Stanford University)

Han Liu, Google Fellowship in Statistics (Carnegie Mellon University)

Lixia Liu, Google Fellowship in Compiler Technology (Purdue University)

Posted by Leslie Yeh Johnson, Google University Relations

Create your Google profile

May 14, 2009

announcedCheck out a sample student profile

Google Social Web blogGmail blogwww.google.com/profilesPosted by Peter Harbison, Product Marketing Manager

The power of video

May 13, 2009

Climate Savers Computing InitiativeOfficial Google Blog19 participating colleges and universitiesJackson State UniversityPower Down the Planet

2009 Specialized Globe Vienna Deluxe 1 bikes powered by SpecializedPosted by Alice Ryan, Green Rocket Scientist

More emoticons in Gmail

May 11, 2009

emoticons in GmailLabs tab under Settings

Gmail blogPosted by Yuzo Fujishima, Software Engineer

Announcing the 2009 Canada Anita Borg Scholars

May 8, 2009

Google is thrilled to honor the memory of Anita Borg and her commitment to women in science by presenting the 2009 Anita Borg Canada Winners!
The 2009 Google Anita Borg Canada Scholarship Recipients

Jenna Cameron - University Of Western Ontario (Bachelors)

Jing Xiang - University Of British Columbia (Masters)

April Khademi - University Of Toronto (PhD)

Pooja Viswanathan - University Of British Columbia (PhD)

The 2009 Google Anita Borg Canada Scholarship Finalists

Barbara Macdonald - University Of Waterloo (Bachelors)

Melanie Tupper - Dalhousie University (Bachelors)

Xiaoyuan XU - Simon Fraser University (Bachelors)

Michelle Annett - University Of Alberta (Masters)

Gail Carmichael - Carleton University (Masters)

Sarah Carruthers - University Of Victoria (Masters)

Katherine Gunion - University Of Victoria (Masters)

Zahra Ahmadian - University Of British Columbia (PhD)

Phillipa Gill - University Of Toronto (PhD)

Marjorie Locke - University Of Western Ontario (PhD)

Somayeh Moazeni - University Of Waterloo (PhD)

Mona Mojdeh - University Of Waterloo (PhD)

Fahimeh Raja - University Of British Columbia (PhD)

Ozge Yeloglu - Dalhousie University (PhD)

Posted by Demian Caponi, Talent and Outreach Programs

Google Photography Prize

May 7, 2009

Google is excited to announce the Google Photography Prize, a global competition for students to create themes for iGoogle. Run in collaboration with Saatchi Gallery London, the Google Photography Prize is open to students across the world. We have opened up iGoogle, our personalized homepage, as the digital canvas for your creativity. We invite you to submit your compelling photography to bring your photography online to a global audience.
See iGoogle themes from artists that have already attempted the challenge.
How it works

Enter your portfolio of five digital photos that together will make up the iGoogle theme

The shortlist: 36 shortlisted entries will be turned into iGoogle themes, shown on Google and put to public vote

The finalists: 6 finalists will be exhibited at Saatchi Gallery London and reviewed by our independent jury (including Idris Khan, Martin Parr, Michael Hoppen, Susanna Brown and Tim Marlow)

The winner: 1 winner will receive a $7,500 prize and an invite to spend a day with Martin Parr

How to enter
Visit www.google.com/photographyprize to read more about the contest and to submit your photographs. The deadline for submission is May 31, 2009.
Enter early to get an exclusive 'I'm a Google Photographer' button for your website, blog or social network page!
We look forward to seeing your entries!
Posted by Louise Rigby, Associate Product Marketing Manager

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