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For more information and to apply for internship please contact: Tammy
Welcome at LBNL: TSWelcome@lbl.gov
Title: Student Assistant Position with IT Division at LBNL
Undergraduate or graduate position, <50% during academic year, 100%
during summer
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and
the Computational Research Division at the U.S. Department of Energy’s
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory invite applications for the Luis
W. Alvarez Fellowship in Computational Science.
For more information and to apply visit: http://www.lbl.gov/CS/html/alvarez.html
The University of Copenhagen is hosting an
international scientific congress on climate change March 10-12, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Findings will be compiled in a book on climate
change, and an excecutive summary will be handed
over to policy makers at the COP15.
The Deadline for paper submissions for the Copenhagen Climate Congress is November 1, 2008.
The October newsletter is now online, featuring stories games for medical diagnosis and technology for giving voices to disenfranchised communities.
A recent article on Big Ideas appeared in Science magazine.
Artist Sharon Daniel helps give disenfranchised groups, such as women prisoners and shantytown dwellers, access to technology to document their experiences.
Researchers at CITRIS have teamed up to develop a video game that can screen young children for fragile X syndrome, the most common form of inherited mental impairment.
Dear Friends of CITRIS,
CITRIS’s projects extend far beyond just the “technology push” elements of our mission. This issue of the newsletter shows how …
UC Santa Cruz has been given $457,909 to be used to provide financial
aid for students enrolled in the innovative computer game design
program in UCSC's Baskin School of Engineering.
The talk is live online at 4:00 p.m. mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast
