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Students (and educators) can now ask President Obama questions on what matters most to them! Read more — and vote on the important questions — on the Official Google Blog . There is a special category for questions on the impact of the economy on education, so come vote and speak your mind. Posted by Gabriel Cohen, Education Team

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Happy Friday! To help celebrate the weekend, here’s the next video from our weekly “App to School” series. This week we’re hearing from a computer information systems major who uses Docs to manage schedule changes at work and Calendar to stay organized across various platforms and devices: If you have a story to share about interesting and productive ways you’re using Google Apps on campus, please upload your video as a response to any of ours – which you can see by visiting our playlist . And if you’re not using Apps on campus yet, check out some of the things you can do by visiting www.google.com/apps/students . Posted by Miriam Schneider, Google Apps Education Team

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On campus with Docs and Calendar

Want a challenge? Want to go to Cannes? Under 29? Enjoy going a full weekend without sleep? We have something for you. Every year young creative minds from all over the world compete in 48 hour film contests where – if they make the best advert in the given time – they win a trip to the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival to represent their countries at the Young Lions competition. This year we’re sending two of you. You will need to make an ad in 48 hours – we’ll release the brief for the ad at the beginning of this period – and once submitted, you’ll get two weeks to get the ad as many views, ratings and votes on the channel as possible. Then, sit tight. The two best entrants as picked by our expert panel will win an all-expense-paid trip to the Festival to make up Team YouTube at the Cannes Lions. For now, go to the channel , subscribe to receive updates, and await further instruction. Brief released Friday May 15th, at midnight GMT. You’ll have until midnight Sunday May 17th to get the ad uploaded and submitted to the contest. The Young Lions competition is a prestigious but frantic week of creativity where the teams of two from all over the world compete in timed challenges to create ads for different briefs, in between training sessions from industry luminaries. An inherent part of the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, one of the world’s premiere advertising festivals, it’s an ideal place for any young creative person to get exposure and open doors for their career. Good luck. Posted by Stephanie Hollywood, University Programmes

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(For the full story, please visit the Official Google Blog & Google Research Blog ) We started the Google Fellowship Program this year to support graduate students in their quest to discover and achieve great things. Our goal was to find the best and brightest PhD students and award them a unique fellowship that highlights their contributions to research and supports them through their graduate studies. After careful review, we are proud to announce the 2009 Google Fellowship recipients: Roxana Geambasu, Google Fellowship in Cloud Computing ( University of Washington ) Michael Piatek, Google Fellowship in Computer Networking ( University of Washington ) David Sontag, Google Fellowship in Machine Learning ( Massachusetts Institute of Technology ) Ali Farhadi, Google Fellowship in Computer Vision Image Interpretation ( University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ) Nicholas Chen, Google Fellowship in Human-Computer Interaction ( University of Maryland ) Siddhartha Sen, Google Fellowship in Fault Tolerant Computing ( Princeton University ) Ryan Peterson, Google Fellowship in Distributed Systems ( Cornell University ) Eric Gilbert, Google Fellowship in Social Computing ( University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ) Micha Elsner, Google Fellowship in Natural Language Processing ( Brown University ) Subhransu Maji, Google Fellowship in Computer Vision Object Recognition ( University of California, Berkeley ) Nicolas Lambert, Google Fellowship in Market Algorithms ( Stanford University ) Han Liu, Google Fellowship in Statistics ( Carnegie Mellon University ) Lixia Liu, Google Fellowship in Compiler Technology ( Purdue University ) The Google Fellowship will provide these students with funding to cover their tuition and expenses, plus an Android-powered phone and a Google mentor. Our sincere congratulations to all of them! We’re already looking forward to our sophomore year in 2010. You should expect to see a broader program covering more areas of research, more schools, and more geographies. We can’t wait. Posted by Leslie Yeh Johnson, Google University Relations

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As students around the country celebrate the culmination of their degrees, we thought we’d share some of the words of wisdom that a few Google executives have been imparting to graduating classes around the country. Google co-founder Larry Page had the pleasure of returning to his alma mater, University of Michigan , earlier this month to offer some advice to graduating students. As someone familiar with taking a little risk in life, Larry urged the U Michigan class of 2009 to “always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting,” that “it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. I know that sounds completely nuts. But, since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition,” and advised that “Overall, I know it seems like the world is crumbling out there, but it is actually a great time in your life to get a little crazy, follow your curiosity, and be ambitious about it. Don’t give up on your dreams. The world needs you all!” You can read the complete text of his speech here or watch the video below. This past weekend, Vice President of Search Products and User Experience, Marissa Mayer , received an honorary doctorate from the Illinois Institute of Technology and gave the graduating class some great advice on the things they should find in order to achieve success in a career and in life. Marissa advised the class of 2009 to “find the smartest people you can and surround yourself with them,” “find allies, rather than adorers,” “find peers, managers, and leaders who challenge you to be the best you can be, and then help you achieve it,” “find courage…Do something you’re not ready to do,” “find places where you’re comfortable,” and finally, to “be an information fountain…Power comes from sharing information…Collaboration leads to creativity and innovation.” You can hear the rest of her inspiring speech by watching the video below. Last, but certainly not least, Google CEO Eric Schmidt visited both Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pennysylvania to advise students that “You’ll find today is the best chance you have to start being unreasonable, to demand excellence, to drive change, to make everything happen” and urge them to “do things in a group. Don’t do things by yourself. Groups are stronger, groups are faster. None of us is as smart as all of us.” Check out the video of Eric at CMU below for the rest of his fascinating speech. From Larry, Marissa, Eric, and all of us at Google – congratulations class of 2009!

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Congrats to the class of 2009!

“At one point, Coach Snyder called me to tell me how proud he was of the work I was doing and how hard I was trying. And even though he wasn’t the football coach at the time, it was still like getting a call from the president,” Scott said. … Scott is now a teacher in the Positive Approach to Student Success program at a Galveston middle school. The program is designed to provide behavioral support for students who are experiencing significant emotional and behavioral …

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“At one point, Coach Snyder called me to tell me how proud he was of the work I was doing and how hard I was trying. And even though he wasn’t the football coach at the time, it was still like getting a call from the president,” Scott said. … Scott is now a teacher in the Positive Approach to Student Success program at a Galveston middle school. The program is designed to provide behavioral support for students who are experiencing significant emotional and behavioral …

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President Barack Obama has just lifted the restrictions on federal funding for research on stem cells.   His administration believes scientific research should be free from political intervention. In August of 2001, President Bush blocked the use of any government money to fund research on human embryonic stem cell.

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President Obama Ends Stem Cell Funding Ban