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ENGINEERING WORLD AWARDS In recognition of her outstanding technical accomplishments and commitment to mentoring, Shawna Thomas, a Texas A&M computer science graduate student and student in the department’s Parasol Lab, became the first recipient of IBM’s recently created Fran Allen Ph.D. Fellowship Award, an addition to the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award program. This intensely competitive program, which honors exceptional doctoral Shawna Thomas students in many academic disciplines and areas of study, awards tuition, fees, and a stipend for one nine-month academic year. The Fran Allen distinction means that Dr. Allen will mentor Thomas, who will also give a technical talk at IBM. In addition, Texas A&M’s computer science department received $30K for women in computing. Dr. Allen is the first female to receive the prestigious A.M. Turing Award, which is compared to the Nobel Prize of computer science. She is also the first female IBM Fellow, which is IBM’s highest technical honor. TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY WWW.SAMAYSTUDIO.COM First-Time Award, First-Time Winner Ourselves project with the International Museum of Women. An anthropologist and social entrepreneur, she melds a professional background in public policy with impressive academic skills to understand and improve the lives of young women Paula Goldman across the globe. In addition, the Anita Borg Institute awarded Rachel Pottinger, Ph.D., with the inaugural Denice Denton Emerging Leader Award. Dr. Pottinger is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia. The award honors the life and work of Denice Denton, Ph.D. (1959-2006), and recognizes a man or a woman under the age of Rachel Pottinger 35 who has demonstrated a significant leadership capability and positive impact on the lives of women through technology. EDUCAUSE Taps a New President In announcing that Diana Oblinger, Ph.D., was appointed president of EDUCAUSE, John E. Bucher, chair of the board and chief technology officer at Oberlin College, said, “Diana Oblinger brings an impressive breadth and depth of experience to this critical leadership position — as an innovative leader and dedicated professional at several institutions; as a longtime active contributor to key higher education organizations, including EDUCAUSE; and as a forceful voice for change and advancement in the profession. Diana will bring vision and energy to moving EDUCAUSE into its second decade of realizing the mission of ‘advancing higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.’” Dr. Oblinger has served as the organization’s vice president since 2004 and leads the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. Prior to joining the organization, she held positions in academia and business. She served as vice president for information resources and as chief information officer for the 16-campus University of North Carolina system; and was a faculty member Diana Oblinger at Michigan State University; and a faculty member and academic administrator at the University of Missouri-Columbia. The current membership includes more than 2,200 colleges, universities, and educational organizations, including 250 corporations, with more than 17,000 active members. Internet Society Welcomes a New Chief Internet Technology Officer Recognizing the need to work with the technical community to address a number of important issues facing the Internet, the Internet Society recruited Leslie Daigle as its new chief Internet technology officer. Daigle has been actively involved in shaping the Internet’s technical evolution for more than a dozen years. In addition to working with the technical community, her role with the Internet Society will provide strategic leadership on important technical issues as they relate to the Internet Society’s ongoing programs. Daigle also will work with Internet community stakeholders to focus on global technical isLeslie Daigle sues facing the Internet. The Internet today is experiencing expansive growth in the number and type of networked devices, as well as the tremendous impact from increased use for voice, video, and gaming. The Internet Society remains committed to maintaining the Internet’s collaborative model of finding and deploying technical and policy solutions that lead to the improvement and evolution of the global Internet. Anita Borg Award Winners and the First Denice Denton Emerging Leader Award The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology recognized and celebrated two outstanding women leaders: Mary Jane Irwin, Ph.D., Evan Pugh Professor and holder of the A. Robert Noll Chair in Engineering in the department of computer science and engineering at Penn State University; and Paula Goldman, cofounder of Imagining Ourselves. Both received 2007 Anita Borg Awards. Dr. Irwin’s research and teaching interests include computer architecture, embedded and mobile computing systems design, power and reliability-aware design, and emerging technologies in computing systems. She has published more than 300 technical papers and has graduated more than 25 Ph.D. students. Paula Goldman founded and directs the Imagining Mary Jane Irwin Six Outstanding Women Win Presidential Award Twenty young scientists — eight of whom are women — taking part in the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program received an additional distinction as recipients of Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers for the 2006 competition. • Sonya Bahar, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics and astronomy, University of Missouri-St. Louis • Bahar Biller, Ph.D., assistant professor of manufacturing and operations management, Carnegie Mellon University • Jenefer Husman, Ph.D., assistant professor, psychology in education, Arizona WWW.SAMAYSTUDIO.COM 62 SWE WINTER 2008 EDUCAUSE http://WWW.SAMAYSTUDIO.COM http://WWW.SAMAYSTUDIO.COM

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SWE - Winter 2008 Heritage Club President’s Note View from the Executive Suite Editor’s Page Readers’ Forum EWeek 2008 New Faces of Engineering The Leaky Science and Engineering Pipeline Why Do Women Leave the Engineering Work Force? A Greener America = New Growth Fields for Engineers The Off-On Ramp Revolution Recognizing the Historic Contributions of African-Americans Membership Information & Calendar A&B Women in Tune with Technology: SWE 2007 Conference Overview Keynote Address Achievement Award Region, Section, and Collegiate Awards SME Bowl and SWE Anniversaries Engineering World: Point of View: Why I Blog Career Toolbox Book Review SWE Smiles Opportunity Index SWE Scrapbook

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