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Dan Kagan, who graduated from Westfield High School in 2002, was one of five students at University of California San Diego to receive the Siebel Scholar award for his academic and leadership achievements in the field of cancer research. Kagan, a Ph.D. student in professor Joseph Wang’s Laboratory for Nanobioelectronics in the Department of NanoEngineering, will receive a $35,000 fellowship during the final year of his studies.

Fifteen students from MIT’s Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Biological Engineering and the Sloan School of Management have been named among the 85 new Siebel Scholars for 2012.

Congratulations to Dr. Shu Chien, Professor of Bioengineering at our partner program, UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering. Professor Shu Chien, recipient of the National Medal of Science.

Oscar John Abilez, M.D., a Ph.D. Candidate in bioengineering at Stanford University, has been selected as a 2011-2012 Siebel Scholar. The Siebel Scholars Foundation recognizes the most talented students at the world’s leading graduate schools of bioengineering, business, and computer science. With the 2011-2012 class of Siebel Scholars, 85 new scholars join an ever-growing, lifelong community of leaders.

Five Kellogg seniors are among the 85 students the Siebel Scholars Program has recognized for their academic excellence and leadership skills and will each receive $35,000 toward their last year of tuition.

Top graduate students in Princeton University's Department of Computer Science will receive a prestigious fellowship and lifelong membership in a network of leading scholars under the newly established Siebel Scholars program, funded by a gift from the Siebel Scholars Foundation.

San Diego, CA, September 12, 2011 --  Five bioengineering Ph.D. students from the University of California, San Diego whose research is aimed at improving human health are among the 2012 recipients of the annual Siebel Scholars awards. Selected for their outstanding academic performance and leadership, each student receives a $35,000 fellowship during the final year of their studies.

Siebel Scholars program recognizes outstanding students from the world’s most prestigious graduate schools Palo Alto, Calif. - September 9, 2011 - Five students dedicated to the study of computer science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) were named among the recipients of the 2012 Siebel Scholars awards.

The Siebel Scholars Foundation has announced that Carnegie Mellon graduate students Andrew Chambers, Luis Pedro Coelho, Preethi Raju, Stephanie Rosenthal and Robert Simmons are among the 85 members of the

Five accomplished computer science graduate students have been selected to the Siebel Scholars Class of 2012 for their leadership and academic excellence

Community Grows to 700 Leaders in Business, Computer Science, and Bioengineering

Excelerate Labs, an intensive summer accelerator for startups driven by proven entrepreneurs and investors, brought together two Siebel Scholars alumni who first met at a Siebel Scholars event in 2009.

The headline for the below news story, FDA Takes “Meth Project” Tack with Cigarettes, is a nod to the Meth Project’s continued influence on national prevention programs as the FDA adopts the Meth Project approach in communicating the effects of tobacco use though hard-hitting ads and warning labels that graphically portray the risks of smoking.  The FDA expects the campaign to have broad public health impacts by decreasing the number of smokers, resulting in lives saved, increased life expectancy, and

Meet the Indian behind ChromeBook Chrome is back in the limelight with Google's recent launch of Chromebook. For beginners, this is a computer which stores no data. Everything the user creates is automatically stored in Google's servers (or the cloud, as it's increasingly called). So, no need to back up data for fear of the hard disk crashing or the laptop getting stolen.

 

IAC's Match.com buys rival OKCupid for $50M NEW YORK (AP) — Online dating site Match.com, owned by Internet consumer company IAC, has bought rival OKCupid for $50 million in cash in a bid to reach a younger demographic. Match.com, the second-largest unit IAC, where billionaire and former Fox executive Barry Diller is chairman, will also pay OKCupid an unspecified bonus if it meets certain performance milestones.

Congrats to Siebel Scholar Sundar Pichai '02 for launching several updates to Google Chrome, including the Chrome operating system.  Read the latest updates to the Google Chrome browser, web store, and OS, posted on the official Google blog by Sundar.   http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/update-on-chrome-web-store-and-chrome.html

Sarah was honored as one of Glamour's 20 Amazing Young Women at the 2010 Glamour Women of the Year Awards. Read about the other honorees here. Name: Sarah Hemminger

Bugaboo for iPhone Aims To Make Web App Debugging A Bit Less Painful Whenever I’m hanging around any new people who seem evenslightly tech-minded, I try to avoid mentioning who I work for. Now, I don’t mean that in a shady way — it’s not because I’m scheming away, waiting for them to slip-up and say something I can turn into a story. It’s because it pretty much always takes the conversation down the exact same road:

At Harvard Medical School, many of Timothy Lu's patients were being attacked by carpets of microbial goo. They had "really bad infections," Lu says. "Patients with cystic fibrosis, people getting infections in their catheters. All caused by biofilms."  

Salem Native is Pioneer in Medical Engineering Back when Lucas Smith graduated from high school, he wasn't quite sure whether he wanted to go into the medical field or engineering.   "So I thought I'd just kind of take the middle road," Smith said.   That led the Salem native to the field of bioengineering, where today he is entrenched in research that he hopes someday will be used to design a new drug therapy for cerebral palsy.  

Fifteen Stanford graduate students have been chosen as 2011 Siebel Scholars in recognition of their academic achievement and community leadership.  

One graduate student is helping to create high-tech prosthetic hands that can be maneuvered by an amputee’s thoughts. Another is trying to convert ordinary skin cells into more useful stem cells. Still another is working to find signs of cancer in a single DNA molecule in a drop of blood. Yet another is making nanoparticles to carry important medicine past sticky barriers inside the human body.

Siebel Scholars program recognizes outstanding graduate students from the world’s most prestigious graduate schools   PALO ALTO, Calif. — September 1, 2010 — Five stellar students dedicated to the study of computer science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) were named among the recipients of the 2011 Siebel Scholars awards.  

The scholars are Michael Benisch and Jana Diesner, both Ph.D.

The Siebel Foundation has announced the names of five UC Berkeley Bioengineering graduate students who have been named Siebel Scholars. The Siebel Scholars program recognizes outstanding graduate students from the world’s most prestigious business, computer science, and bioengineering graduate schools. Each of the Class of 2011 Siebel Scholars will receive a $35,000 award for his or her final year of graduate studies.  

Five accomplished second-year Stanford MBA students have been named 2011 Siebel Scholars based on academic achievement and demonstrated leadership during their first year at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.   September 2010  

Funded in part by a grant from the Thomas and Stacey Siebel Foundation, research scientists at Johns Hopkins, Stanford, and Harvard universities have produced the first-ever epigenetic landscape map for tissue differentiation. Co-author Dr. Irv Weissman, professor of cancer biology, cell and developmental biology at Stanford University, was a speaker at the 2002 Siebel Scholars Conference on Stem Cell Research.  

WASHINGTON—The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the Smithsonian Institution presented the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service to The Honorable Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State, and the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship to Thomas M. Siebel at a dinner held on May 26, 2010 at the Four Seasons in Palo Alto, California. Patricia House, vice chairman & senior vice president of strategy at C3 served as dinner chair with Anja Manuel of The RiceHadley Group, Charlotte M. Shultz, and John S. Watson serving as dinner co-chairs.

Siebel Scholars Trip to China May 6-17, 2011

The overarching goals of Stanford’s Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (ISCBRM) is to understand the creation, regulation, and specialization of stem cells in order to develop novel and ground-breaking medical therapies to the world’s currently incurable diseases. The ISCBRM places a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary collaborations between stem cell biology, computer science, and bioengineering in order to promote discovery and accelerate research progress.

How is the brain wired to produce behaviors critical for life?  This is one of the central scientific questions being addressed at the Janelia Farm campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).  The HHMI scientists are making amazing progress at Janelia Farm, working in multidiscplinary teams are using both bottom-up and top-down approaches, in a new state-of-the-art $500M facility.

On February 25, Lewis Lapham hosted an event for the Siebel Scholars Foundation featuring a talk Ray Lamontagne at the Century Club in New York City. 

In 2002, the Siebel Scholars Foundation held its annual conference on the subject of stem cell research.  As a result, the Siebel Foundation formed the Siebel Stem Cell Institute with the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University to bring together renowned scientists from around the globe to achieve breakthroughs that have the potential to transform the future of medicine. The following is an example of such research, and is also indicative of the convergence of and collaboration between engineering and medical disciplines:

Looking for love on an online dating service? If you’re a man, don’t smile in your profile picture, and don’t look into the camera. If you’re a woman, skip photos that focus on your physical assets and pick one that shows you vacationing in Brazil or strumming a guitar. Those are some of the insights that OkCupid, a free dating site based in New York, has gleaned by using statistical tools to analyze how the mating game plays out on its site.

Listen to the CNN interview:   http://www.fvgroup.com/news.htm#  

Institutional Venture Partners has promoted Jules Maltz to the position of principal, with a focus on Internet and software companies. He joined the firm in 2008 as a principal, and has worked on such deals as Spiceworks, Twitter and Yext. PRESS RELEASE

EECS Siebel Scholars with Department Head Grimson, 2009

Angela Thedinga, LGO ‘10, has been named a Siebel Scholar by the Siebel Scholars Foundation. She joins five LGOs who have received this honor since the program was established in 2000.

Fifteen students from Stanford’s graduate departments were awarded tuition grants of $35,000 and the title of 2010 Siebel Scholar last month by the Siebel Foundation. The Siebel Foundation, founded in 1996, is a non-profit benefit corporation intended to recognize and bring together 80 talented students a year from the fields of bioengineering, computer science and business. Students are chosen from 11 of the nation’s leading universities.

Charles Gammal, a native of Westboro and a second-year MBA student at MIT Sloan School of Management, was awarded the Siebel Scholarship, which recognizes the most talented graduate students from the world’s top business, computer science, and bioengineering graduate schools. Mr. Gammal, 23, is one of 80 international Siebel Scholars chosen for 2010. Recipients receive a tuition grant of $35,000.

Five accomplished second-year MBA students at the Stanford Graduate School of Business have been named 2009 Siebel Scholars. They join an elite group chosen by a faculty committee based on academic achievement, leadership, and citizenship within the Business School community during their first year at the School. The honor includes a tuition grant of $35,000 from the program, established in 2000 by the Siebel Scholars Foundation to recognize the most talented students at the world’s leading graduate schools of business and computer science.

We’re happy to announce that Stanford GSB students Ashley Evans, Kenneth Hammond, Andy Martin, Matthew Skaruppa, and Iain Ware (all MBA 2010s) received the distinguished Siebel Scholarship. The award recognizes students for their academic achievement, leadership, and citizenship within the Business School community during their first year. Along with receiving a $35,000 tuition grant, scholars have the opportunity to serve as key advisors to the Siebel Foundation. We are proud to have Ashley, Kenneth, Andy, Matthew, Iain, at the GSB!

The Siebel Foundation yesterday announced five UC Berkeley Bioengineering graduate students who have been named Siebel Scholars. This is the first year the Foundation has expanded the Scholars program to recognize and engage outstanding graduate students in the field of bioengineering. Siebel has selected five top institutions in the field of Bioengineering - including UC Berkeley - to each designate five top-ranked graduate students as Siebel Scholars. Each of the Class of 2010 Siebel Scholars will receive a $35,000 award for his or her final year of graduate studies.

Siebel Scholars program recognizes outstanding graduate students from the world’s most prestigious business, computer science, and bioengineering graduate schools PALO ALTO, Calif. — September 14, 2009 — Five students dedicated to the study of computer science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) were named among the recipients of the 2010 Siebel Scholars awards.

Tsinghua University Joins Leading Graduate Schools

Five accomplished computer science graduate students from the College of Engineering at Illinois have been named the 2010 Siebel Scholars. In a field where innovation is the norm, these young researchers stand out with their novel approaches to complex issues, and with their propensity to take the road less travelled.

Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs   8. Blood Test for Down Syndrome  

10/9/2008 — Five Kellogg School of Management students were honored as Siebel Scholars for 2008-2009. The second-year students are: Smruti Behera, Edward Colburn, Anneliese Gerland, Allana Jackson and Justin Ward. The prestigious national award honors the five top students at each of 10 leading U.S. graduate business and computer science universities. Recipients receive $25,000 for tuition and other educational expenses during their final year of study.

Computer science master’s candidates Neil Jhaveri and Daniel Shteremberg, both of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, were among the winners.

The 2009 class of Siebel Scholars is preparing to attend their first visit to the annual Siebel Scholars conference, October 17-19. Each fall, current and alumni Siebel Scholars come together with university faculty and some of the world's most prestigious thought-leaders to discuss and debate global issues, developing innovative solutions to society's most pressing needs.