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What do a “Jeopardy!” bidding strategy expert, the creator of an online Sanskrit guide and a member of the team that created the first comprehensive model of a single living cell have in common? All three are Stanford students and recipients of the prestigious 2013 Siebel Scholarship.

Since the year 2000, 85 graduate students from American universities have been invited to join the prestigious Siebel Scholars community, which represents the year’s best in the fields of business, bioengineering, and computer science. The last U.S. News and World Report rankings put Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science at No. 7 nationally and No. 9 globally for computer science.

Kellogg's 2013 Siebel Scholars, left to right: Rushi Sheth, Shenqing (Robin) Tang, Laurie Gallien, Jeanne Gatto and Elliot Poindexter  

L-R: Adina Taylor, MBA ’13; Sriram Emani, MBA ’13; Elena Schrum, MBA ’13; Senthil Balasubramanian, MBA ’13. Photo by Sarah Foote.  

Five accomplished computer science graduate students—Arpit Agarwal, Harshit Kharbanda, Manoj Krishnan, Jonathan Tedesco, and Ali Vakilian—have been selected to the Siebel Scholars Class of 2013 for their leadership and academic excellence.  

Christina Fan, 29 Prenatal testing for genetic conditions from a sample of the mother’s blood ImmuMetrix In her lab, Fan is developing better ways to spot genetic disorders in fetuses. Photograph by Jake Stengel

Congrats to Siebel Scholar Dan Preston '11, co-founder and CTO of AisleBuyer, which recently sold to Intuit. ==============

Siebel Scholars Impact Award Winners Announced Siebel Foundation and Siebel Scholars to support innovative, philanthropic endeavors

Lauren (Hruby) Jepson, a Mora native, was named one of the 2012 Siebel Scholars for her work dedicated to building a better retinal prosthesis for the visually impaired. The Siebel Scholars award will allow her to connect with topnotch researchers and entrepreneurs.

David Wong '11 is the CEO of Hybrid Wisdom Labs, a technology-driven venture emerging from over a decade of research at UC Berkeley. He founded the company with Professor Ken Goldberg, the CTO, who is a professor of IEOR with appointments in EECS and the I-School. Hear more about Hybrid Wisdom Labs from David in this GigaOm article. ===================

The five second-year students who were chosen as Siebel Scholars this year include a strategy consultant who is passionate about higher education reform, an aerospace engineer and a former violist with the Chicago Youth Concert Orchestra. The winners also include a biomedical engineer who brews beer at home and a former F-15 fighter pilot who led 42 combat missions during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

The Siebel Scholars Foundation has awarded scholarships to five MIT Sloan students, Paul Artiuch, Kathryn Bach, Daniel Coleman, Ed Hallen, and Ankit Jain. All are members of the MBA Class of 2012.

STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — A cyber security specialist who organized nonprofit volunteer events in the nation's capital, a business analyst who founded India's largest ad network, a mechanical engineer and management consultant who discovered his inner "Disney Imagineer," an investment portfolio manager who pilots small planes, and a management consultant who spent the summer at a nonprofit agency offering employment services for people with recent criminal convictions, have been named 2012 Siebel Scholars.

C3 just won itself an honor, being named “Company of the Year” as part of AlwaysOn’s GoingGreen 2011 cleantech confab in San Francisco. That’s pretty remarkable, given that the Tom Siebel-headed startup only began talking about its activities with analysts a month ago. And it begs the questions: What is C3, and what great green frontiers is it exploring? Solar? Bioengineering? Fuel Cells?

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The 2012 Siebel Scholars from Johns Hopkins are Suneil Hosmane, Stephanie I. Fraley, Manisha Aggarwal, Donny Hanjaya-Putra and Hannah Carter. Photo: Jay VanRensselaer/Homewoodphoto.jhu.edu

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.

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 2012 Siebel Scholars will receive a $35,000 award for his or her final year of graduate 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.

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

 

Hands-on program helps answer kids’ questions through science Six-year-old Conor Giroux loves T-ball and martial arts, while his 4-year-old sister, Maggie, favors dancing and playing the piano. Their mom, Maureen, wants to broaden their experiences to include new territory — the learning-by-doing Kids Science Labs, a new, six-day-a-week program for 2- to 12-year-olds debuting Aug. 29 in the Lincoln Park neighborhood.

The Siebel Scholars China delegation returned from an 11-day trip with new insights, ideas, and relationships. Through tours and meetings in Beijing, Hangzhou, and Shanghai, the delegation engaged with top industry, government, and academic officials to witness firsthand the region’s rapid economic growth and societal impact. Highlights of the trip include:

They say it’s the only man made structure on Earth you can see with the naked eye from space, but that’s a pop culture myth. In actuality, the Great Wall of China is a rich source of China’s history, one of the world’s largest outdoor museums and where the 2011 Siebel Scholars delegation to China began its journey.

The Siebel Scholars Foundation—a nonprofit, public benefit corporation— is looking for a Program Management Summer Intern to join its tight-knit team to connect its community and implement its growing number of initiatives.   Position Overview

Meth Project Founder Thomas M. Siebel Recognized on Annual List of “25 Best Givers” and Commended for Significantly Reducing Meth Use

Five Booth students selected as Siebel Scholars The five second-year students who were chosen as Siebel Scholars this year include an avid backpacker who has hiked through Peru, China and India, a computer scientist who designed race-winning mobile robots, and a former first lieutenant in the Israeli Naval Commando Special Forces. The winners also include a veteran of the private equity industry and an entrepreneur who played competitive soccer with a star of the British national team.

Congratulations to Siebel Scholar Noy Bassik, Johns Hopkins University BioEngineering '10, whose research combining chemical processes with biomedical microtools was featured in US News and World Report. ----------------

Siebel Scholars: Three laureates share their experience The Siebel Scholars programme recognises talented students at the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science and bioengineering.   AWARDED to 80 outstanding scholars every year, the scholarship provides generous funding and enables the recipients to be part of a community. Nimesh Chandra interacted with three such laureates to understand how they made it...  

The Siebel Foundation has announced the recipients of the annual Siebel Scholars awards, including 15 from MIT. The Siebel Scholars program recognizes outstanding graduate students from the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, and bioengineering.

Computer Science graduate students David Wong and Jerry Zhang have been named Siebel Scholars for the Class of 2011.     Please see the UC Berkeley website at http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu for the full announcement.

The international scholarship program honors five Kellogg students for academic and leadership excellence   9/3/2010 - Five second-year Kellogg students have been named 2011 Siebel Scholars, joining a network of elite students from 16 of the world’s leading graduate business, computer science and bioengineering schools.   

  The Siebel Scholars Foundation (http://www.siebelscholars.com) is looking for someone to help us edit video footage from our conferences and regional events on an as-needed, freelance basis.

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

Computer Science graduate students, Kurchi Subhra Hazra, Tanmay Khirwadkar, Alexander Loeb, Joana M. F. da Trindade and Shivaram Venkataraman have been named the 2011 Siebel Scholars.

Community Grows to more than 600 Current and Alumni Scholars from Leading Universities  

The Siebel Scholars Foundation is pleased to share some exciting news about the African Leadership Academy (ALA), Co-founded by Christopher Bradford, a Class of 2005 Siebel Scholar from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Chief Operating Officer of the pan-African secondary school that seeks to develop ethical and entrepreneurial leaders for the continent.

The Siebel Scholars Foundation—a nonprofit, public benefit corporation— is looking for a Program Manager to join its tight-knit team to connect its community and implement its growing number of initiatives. Position Overview

Ever think about where that plastic that you throw away goes? It is remarkable to think that the circle of life has even made a spot for plastic. Although quite undesirable, some of that plastic finds itself back in our ocean.

On April 23, 2010, Tom Siebel was inducted into the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Engineering Hall of Fame.  The Hall of Fame induction was center to UIUC's celebration of 140 years of engineering innovation and the 10th anniversary of its Technology Entrepreneur Center, with special events themed "Transforming the World, One Generation at a Time." 

Early last week, Boston Siebel Scholars, friends of the Siebel Scholars Foundation, and staff gathered for a tour of the brand new MIT Media Lab building.  Construction cones and caution tape still surround parts of the building, but inside the research space is being put to full use. 

A group of Siebel Scholars and other friends were hosted on April 8th at the Chicago Field Museum by John McCarter (President and CEO of the Museum). We were taken several floors below ground and given a behind the scenes tour of some of the exhibits by several of the museum curators. Some of the stops included the cryogenics department, racks of dinosaur bones, and the wet-specimen collection of bats and snakes.

Siebel Scholar Jason Hong (UC Berkeley Computer Science, 2004) was recently awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.   The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. These two-year fellowships are awarded yearly to 118 researchers in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field.  

Listen to the Stanford Social Innovation Review interview:  https://video.webcasts.com/events/pmny001/viewer/index.jsp?eventid=33320

Chris Bradford, founder and chief financial officer of the African Leadership Academy, spends each day seeking ways to transform an entire continent. And as The Governor’s Academy community learned during a convocation presentation in January, his students are destined to become those who will do so.

Mitchell B. Weiss doesn’t come out of the traditional school of Boston politics. As the 33-year-old Harvard Business School graduate prepares to ascend to his new job as Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s chief of staff, you won’t find him tossing back pints at Doyle’s or poring over ward and precinct numbers from the last election.

Tony Bergstrom, Raghu Kiran Ganti, Brett Jones, Yun Young Lee, and Rajinder Sodhi might each pursue unique research in divergent areas of computer science, but each of their work can be characterized similarly.

The Siebel Foundation has recognized the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering's pioneering efforts with $2 million to fund fellowships for some of its top bioengineering graduate students, including five recently named the 2010 UC San Diego Siebel Scholars. They are Terrell Green, Amy Hsieh, Jennifer Singelyn, Julio Ng and Roy Lefkowitz.

The five members of the Booth Class of 2010 who were named Siebel Scholars this year include an avid mountaineer, a former national sportsman, and the captain of his college basketball team. The fourth winner spent last ummer working for two venture investment groups, and the fifth developed algorithmic and program trading systems for Goldman Sachs before enrolling at Booth.

As breakthrough discoveries in bioengineering become more crucial to fundamental global issues, including health, food production and water supplies, UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering’s top ranked bioengineering department continues to be on the cutting edge of this field.  The Siebel Foundation has recognized the Jacob School’s pioneering efforts with  $2 million to fund fellowships for some of its top bioengineering graduate students.

Jessica Mazonson Photograph: Kris Olson  

The 2010 Siebel Scholars with Jan A. Van Mieghem, senior associate dean, curriculum and teaching (far right). From left: Jason Robinson, Susan Bortz, Jarrod Cady, Donald Yeh and Jeremiah Quinlan, all ’10.

The Siebel Foundation announced that five EECS graduate students have been named 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. The Siebel Scholars program was founded in 2000 to recognize the most talented students at the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, and bioengineering and to form an active, lifelong community among an ever-growing group of leaders. Today, more than 540 of the world’s brightest minds are Siebel Scholars.

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.

Tsinghua University Joins Leading Graduate Schools

Community Grows to 540 Current and Alumni Scholars from Leading Universities

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For computer science graduate students Neil V. Jhaveri and Daniel Shteremberg, the countless hours spent working in research laboratories, leading projects, and completing difficult courses paid off—literally—on Tuesday when they were named 2009 Siebel Scholars.

  PALO ALTO, Calif.—October 7, 2008—The Siebel Foundation today announced the recipients of the annual Siebel Scholars scholarship awards. The Siebel Scholars program recognizes outstanding graduate students from the world's most prestigious business and computer science schools. Based on academic merit and leadership excellence, five graduate students from each institution are honored as Class of 2009 Siebel Scholars and received a $25,000 award for their final year of graduate studies.