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Do you have an idea that could benefit humanity and revolutionize the way we live? IEEE is hosting a global competition for students who develop unique solutions to real-world problems using engineering, science, computing and leadership skills. Winners could walk away with up to US$10,000. Stanford students Drew Hall, a fourth-year student in electrical engineering, and Richard Gaster, a medical and bioengineering student won the award in 2009 for their NanoLab: A Hand-Held Diagnostic Laboratory. Other winning projects included Electronic Aids for Physically/Mentally Handicapped Children, Engineering Innovators Without Borders - Human Powered Grain Crusher, and many others who have had a positive impact on the world.

Entries must be submitted by 31 January 2010. Details at the IEEE Presidents' Change the World site.

Business Source Complete from EBSCO now includes a business video collection with 55 videos from the Harvard Business School Faculty Seminar Series, at no additional charge. Business Source Complete is available to the Stanford University Community from the SULAIR Databases page and from the Jackson Library home page.

The series features engaging video lectures from renowned professors and experts at the Harvard Business School. All lectures are captured from executive education programs, and offer groundbreaking ideas, insightful research, and practical advice on management issues.

The Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP) is a ten week summer research opportunity for undergraduate Juniors & Seniors, and Graduate students, under the guidance of a mentor, at a participating Navy Laboratory (list of participating universities is available at http://www.asee.org/nreip). The stipend amounts for the program are $7500 for undergraduate students and $10,000 for graduate students. U.S. citizenship required; Permanent residents accepted at certain labs.

The New Media Team at NASA Ames Research Center has developed the first NASA iPhone application to deliver up-to-the-minute NASA content directly from Agency sources in one easy-to-use mobile platform. The software makes extensive use of built-in iPhone features and usability to offer NASA information in a clear and intuitive way. The application aggregates and delivers a compelling range of dynamically updated information, images and video links. The NASA App is available free of charge on the App Store from Apple directly to the iPhone and iPod Touch or within iTunes.

The Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections has launched a new website to provide indepth information on GIS data,software and courses available at Stanford. The new site is available at this link: http://lib.stanford.edu/gis

You are invited to join the Stanford Amateur Radio Club, W6YX, for College Satellite Night *today* Thursday October 1st, starting at 4:15PM. The goal is to contact several other Universities across the country via various low Earth orbit satellites. W6YX will be operating from their impressive "shack" ( http://www-w6yx.stanford.edu/w6yx/site530.html ) located in the foothills.

A group of leading research universities including Stanford University has launched Futurity (futurity.org), an online site designed to showcase the latest research discoveries in science, engineering, the environment, health and more. All current partner universities are members of the Association of American Universities, a nonprofit organization of leading public and private research universities.

NASA has chosen Michael S. Hopkins, an alumnus of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, to be one of its newest astronauts. Of the nine-member class, two others are also alumni of Stanford University. For a full list of the 2009 astronaut candidate class with photos and bios click here: http://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/ascans2009.html

Opportunity for UC Berkeley and Stanford Students
Qualcomm announces a new kind of fellowship that promotes Qualcomm's core values of innovation, execution and teamwork.
The fellowships will be awarded to teams of two students, for submitting the most innovative ideas. The department of each winning team will receive $100,000 to fund the two student's fellowship and other research expenses for the calendar year of 2010 (total prize of two teams x two students x $50,000 = $200,000).

The NASA Aeronautics Scholarship Program, which is administered by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) is officially accepting applications for the 2010 Aeronautics Scholarship Program. It is expected that approximately 20 two-year undergraduate, and 5 two-year with an option of a third year graduate scholarships will be awarded annually to students pursuing aeronautical engineering and related fields such as Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Physics and Mathematics.

The OPPIE platform developed by the Library at Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) which allowed users to search Biosis, Engineering Index, Inspec, and the three citation databases SciSearch, Social SciSearch, and Arts & Humanities and FlashPoint which searched the databases on OPPIE plus MathSciNet and PubMed will no longer be available to Stanford students, faculty and researchers.

Access is ending from developments at both Stanford and LANL.

Going Mobile with JRSE... plus more journals from the American Institiute of Physics will go mobile this Fall.

Researchers on the go can now access JRSE directly from any mobile device equipped with a modern web browser. Simply point your web-capable mobile browser at

http://jrse.aip.org/

to view the entire site optimized for display on devices such as the Google Android, Blackberry, iPhone, and iPod Touch, and devices running Windows Mobile, among others.

NASA is offering undergraduate students an opportunity to test experiments in microgravity aboard NASA's reduced gravity aircraft.

The opportunity is part of NASA's Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program, which gives aspiring explorers a chance to propose, design, and fabricate a reduced-gravity experiment. Selected teams will test and evaluate their experiment aboard NASA's reduced-gravity airplane. The aircraft flies about 30 roller-coaster-like climbs and dips during experiment flights to produce periods of weightlessness and hypergravity ranging from 0 g to 2 g.

The First Annual Center for Biomedical Imaging at Stanford (CBIS)
Symposium is August 31, 2009, and the keynote speaker is Dr. Jeff Lichtman from Harvard University. Dr Lichtman will present his work on “Connectomics”. You can read more about Dr.Lichtman’s work at http://www.mcb.harvard.edu/faculty/faculty_list.php.

IEEE Xplore Mobile provides free search of all IEEE Xplore documents directly on your mobile device. You can view up to 10 article abstracts per search. To view full-text articles, send the article links to your e-mail address. Stanford students and faculty can click on the link to view the fulltext as part of the SU Libraries subscription. Non-subscribers and guests will be prompted for purchase options. A link to the Main IEEE Xplore Site is provided from the mobile 'Search' page ('Get your know-how on the go') as well as from the search results page.

MELVILLE, NEW YORK, July 15, 2009 - The American Physical Society (APS) and the
American Institute of Physics (AIP) today announced the launch of the Virtual
Journal of Atomic Quantum Fluids (VJAQF). Edited by MIT's Wolfgang Ketterle,
co-recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Physics, along with Markus Greiner of
Harvard University and Peter Zoller of the University of Innsbruck, the new
Virtual Journal (VJ) is now available online at www.vjaqf.org.

VJAQF covers new developments in the study of novel quantum fluids and many-body

Melville, NY, July 1, 2009 - The American Institute of Physics announced that full-text papers published in the Communications section of its highly cited publication The Journal of Chemical Physics are now freely available. In addition, any Communication published since January of this year will also be freely accessible. The Communications section of The Journal of Chemical Physics features accelerated publication of brief papers on significant new findings.

Two Stanford University graduate students have won the inaugural IEEE Presidents' Change the World Competition for a handheld laboratory capable of diagnosing illness in remote corners of the globe.

Justin Rattner, Intel Corporation's Chief Technology Officer takes a fascinating look at how technology will bring man and machines much closer together. He predicts big changes are ahead in social interactions, robotics and improvements in computer's ability to sense the real world. Rattner believes that we may be approaching an inflection point where the rate of technology advancements is accelerating at an exponential rate, and as a result, machines could overtake humans in their ability to reason, in the not so distant future.

EXPE 2009 - The Design EXPErience
June 4, 2009, 2:00 – 5:00pm

Stanford's Mechanical Engineering Design Group invites you to celebrate the creative work of our students at our annual Design Fair. The Design Fair is part of EXPE week, which features podium presentations, mini-conferences and demonstrations that showcase student work in design research, design practice, engineering, and manufacturing.

IEEE held the first IEEE Engineering the Future Day on 13 May to commemorate its 125th Anniversary. IEEE Engineering the Future Day recognizes the contributions and impact that IEEE, its members, and engineering and technology professionals have made for the benefit of humanity. Exciting activities were planned by IEEE members around the world to honor IEEE's heritage and focus on ways to advance technology and make the world a better place. Grass roots events took place in nearly two dozen countries including Ecuador, Nigeria, Portugal and Russia.

Don't Miss the Latest IEEE Expert Now Courses
Five new courses have been added to the IEEE Expert Now portfolio of continuing education.

Smart Fabrics and Interactive Textile: State of the Art and Future Challenges

The eBook division of Springer publishing and the Stanford Libraries are testing a new service for print on demand copies of eBooks. The service is called MyCopy and it is an extension of Springer’s eBook platform. Over 11,500 titles are available in MyCopy format exclusively through SpringerLink (www.springerlink.com). The Stanford Libraries are one of 30 pilot programs for this service. Your comments and feedback are appreciated.

Microprocessor Report , the leading technical publication for the
microprocessor industry is now available at the Engineering Library.
Print issues for 2008 and 2009 are at the circulation desk. Access to
the eight-year archive is restricted to Stanford students and faculty.
Logon information for access to the archive is also at the circulation
desk. If the "business of microprocessors" (system logic chips, DSP