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Last month we asked you to nominate your campus to be photographed for Street View on Google Maps. We were inundated with more than 25,000 suggestions across all categories, and university campuses made up 44% of all suggestions! We’ve narrowed the top suggested locations to a few finalists and there is now just one week left in the voting period. Cast your vote for your favorite place within each category to tell us which locations you’d most like to see on Google Maps. The university finalists are: Arizona State University Michigan State University Princeton University Rochester Institute of Technology Stanford University Visit www.google.com/trike to vote and see the other finalists! You can vote as many times as you like until the deadline at 11:59pm PST on Monday, November 30th. We’ll then work on getting all the winners into Google Maps, and of course we’ll work closely with the relevant organizations to collect images of any privately-owned locations. If voting for Street View trike finalists gets you excited about how much you love Google Maps, be sure to check out our new Google Maps tips for life to help you save time, look smart, and manage your travels efficiently. Posted by Laura Melahn, Google Maps Team

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(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog ) We had a busy summer here at Google interacting with students through a wide variety of scholarship, internship and networking opportunities across North America. Here’s a look back at a few of our programs (you can bet we’ll be hosting them again!) along with news on some upcoming initiatives. Rising college sophomores participated in two Google programs: Google FUSE , in its inaugural year, and the Google Computer Science Summer Institute (CSSI). For FUSE, we welcomed 50 rising college sophomores to our New York City office for a three-day retreat designed to connect students from groups that are under-represented in the field of computer science. The retreat focused on making connections between students and Googlers, encouraging students to create meaningful academic experiences and allowing them to learn more about possible career paths via hands-on activities, panel discussions and a bit of fun around the New York City area. Another group of twenty rising sophomores spent two weeks at the Googleplex in Mountain View for the second annual Computer Science Summer Institute. This special program included an interactive and collaborative Computer Science curriculum, as well as a living-learning residential experience for student networking. Students worked in teams to create an interactive web application using Python in Google App Engine. When not in class, they heard technical talks from Google engineers, spoke with professionals from across the technology industry and academia about the many things they can do with a Computer Science degree. They also had some fun joining the Bay Area summer interns on a boat cruise and catching a baseball game after an exciting San Francisco scavenger hunt. In addition, our engineering internship program hosted more than 450 college (undergraduate and graduate) interns in 15 locations across North America. These interns were an integral part of the engineering team and made significant contributions this summer working on exciting projects including Android, Chrome, Docs and machine translation. We also had more than 100 students working across multiple functions, including sales and engineering in Mountain View, New York, Chicago, Ann Arbor, Washington, D.C., San Francisco and Boston as part of the Building Opportunities for Leadership and Development ( BOLD ) Program. BOLD is a 10-week internship program designed to provide exposure to the technology industry for students from groups that are historically underrepresented in technology. This summer experience includes a unique glimpse into a business or engineering career, professional development and leadership courses, as well as one-on-one mentorship designed to further support professional growth. Of course, we realize that growing future leaders in engineering and business doesn’t just start with college students. For this reason, we partner with the LEAD programs in both business and engineering to encourage outstanding high school students to pursue careers in these fields. This year, all four LEAD Summer Engineering Institute participants had the opportunity to tour a local Google office to attend technical talks and interact with Google engineers (okay, with some tasty food and video games thrown in as well). As part of Google’s ongoing commitment to recognizing student achievements and promoting leadership, we also offer a number of academic scholarships. We are currently accepting applications for the Google Lime Scholarship for Student with Disabilities in the U.S. and Canada, and the Anita Borg Scholarship in Canada , Europe, the Middle East and Africa , and the United States . In case you’re curious, we offer a host of scholarships for many other international regions. If one or more of these opportunities sounds like something you’d like to participate in, you can find applications for full time opportunities and summer internship opportunities on our student job site . Visit our scholarship page for more information on our scholarship opportunities. And follow us on Twitter and Facebook for updates on application deadlines and new program announcements. Making an early connection playing People Bingo at Google FUSE . Taking a break from bowling during Google FUSE. Posted by Kyle Ewing, Talent and Outreach Programs – University Programs and Recruiting

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Google and the United Negro College Fund are proud to announce our 2009 Google UNCF Scholars! Google UNCF scholars will each receive a USD $10,000 academic scholarship and are invited to an all-expenses paid trip to the Google Headquarters in California in 2010. While at the Googleplex they’ll have the opportunity to meet each other and attend technical talks and professional development workshops, as well as explore the San Francisco Bay area. We hope this program will encourage students to excel in their studies in years to come, inspire them to become role models and leaders, and attract more African-American students to the fields of science and technology. Please join us in congratulating our Google UNCF Scholars! Brandon Fields, Tuskegee University Brandon Whitehead, Georgia Institute of Technology Brett Matthews, Georgia Institute of Technology Courtney Daley, Rochester Institute of Technology Dwayne Reeves, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Edward William, University of Idaho Ikpeme Erete, Georgia Institute of Technology Kimberly Davis, Talladega College Mauricia Ragland, Clark Atlanta University Miyako Jones, University of Michigan-Flint Nancy Douyon, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Njinda Ngwanchang, University of Massachusetts Paula Laurent, DePaul University Sean Sanders, Georgia Institute of Technology Shani Ingram , Tennessee State University Stephen Guy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Stephen Oney, Carnegie Mellon University Wendy Logan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology To learn more about Google’s Scholarship Programs, please visit www.google.com/jobs/ scho larships . Posted by Meghan O’Farrell, Talent & Outreach Programs Specialist

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Stephanie is interning with the Google Docs Marketing team this summer and surveyed students to find out about how you’re using Docs on and off campus. Last month I asked you how you use Google Docs on campus. After hearing from over 50 students, I wanted to share some highlights of what we learned from you along the way: How do students mainly use Google Docs? Brainstorming Whether it’s taking notes during a group project brainstorm session or outlining a research paper, Google Docs helps you get your thoughts down quickly and allows you to access them from anywhere later. Group work Many of you use Google Docs to contribute your part to a group project, but just as many use it outside the classroom. Student groups are collecting RSVPs with Google forms, taking meeting minutes with Google documents, and balancing budgets with Google spreadsheets. Personal record keeping Have a to-do list or want to keep a weekly budget? Many of you are using Google Docs to stay on track with daily tasks. Your favorite thing about Google Docs? Collaboration Backing up important work is great too, but far and away students enjoy being able to contribute to the same document with friends and classmates. And it’s not just about the class projects. For instance, Students for Obama used Google spreadsheets to tell each other who had participated in phone banks, who was going on certain trips, and who would complete certain tasks. Most creative uses we heard from you: “Two of my friends used Google spreadsheets to play Dungeons and Dragons with each other.” – Chris, Worchester Polytechnic Institute, Computer Science “We used Google Docs to plan a spring break trip for Habitat for Humanity. It helped us keep track of phone numbers, dinner menus, etc.” – Jacinda, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science “Our club leadership used Google Docs for everything from constitution-writing to picking the new board, and during interviews, we would take notes on interviewees in the same doc.” – Justin, Harvard University, Anthropology Thanks to everyone who volunteered your time; it really helps the Google Docs team key in to what’s important to students so we can continue to make the product better for you. With back to school right around the corner, I’m interested to try out some of your ideas in my own campus life, and I hope some of these ideas may inspire you to get started with Docs as well. Posted by Stephanie Vezich, Google Marketing Intern

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We are excited to announce our 2009 class of Google Hispanic College Fund Scholars! Anamary Leal, University of Central Florida Antonio Blanca, Georgia Institute of Technology Ashley Nicole Munoz, Texas A&M Bilson Libres Campana, UC Riverside Cesar De La Paz, University of Texas at Austin Diana Polette Flores, University of Florida Felipe Bernal, University of Central Florida Giovani Galicia, UC San Diego Jorge Mena, UCLA Jose Dieppa, University of South Florida Jose Lugo Martinez, Indiana University Luis Ernesto Saumell, Florida International University Mario Ernesto Consuegra, Florida International University Michael Benjamin Byrd, UC Davis Nathaniel David Figueroa, Mount Vernon Nazarene College Nicholas Vaidyanathan, Arizona State University Ramon Jesus Gonzalez, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Ricardo Portillo, University of Texas, El Paso Shaun Neil Paredes, Arizona State University Taj Preciado, Park University The Google Hispanic College Fund Scholarship Program offers funds to students studying computer science or computer engineering who are juniors or seniors in college or pursuing a Master’s or PhD. Selected scholars each receive a USD $10,000 academic scholarship and are invited to an all-expenses paid trip to the Google Headquarters in California in 2010. For more information on Google’s Scholarship Programs, please visit www.google.com/jobs/ scholarships Posted by Meghan O’Farrell, Talent & Outreach Programs Specialist

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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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We are thrilled to announce and congratulate the 2009 Google US Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship winners! The 2009 Google Anita Borg Scholarship Recipients Jennifer Roberts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sheena Lewis, Northwestern University Ramya Raghavendra, University of California-Santa Barbara Saleema Amershi, University of Washington Divya Ramachandran, University of California-Berkeley Leshell Hatley, University of Maryland College Park Sara Sinclair, Dartmouth College Mary David, University of Southern California Dana Forsthoefel, Georgia Institute of Technology Manjari Narayan, Rice University Yi-Chieh Wu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sarah Cooley, Oregon State University Katherine Corner, University of Colorado at Boulder Natalie Freed, Arizona State University Main Sarah Loos, Indiana University Bloomington Isabel Mattos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Norma Savage, Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico (will be attending University of California-Santa Barbara) Elaine Short, Yale University Xuexin (Alice) Zhu, Harvey Mudd College YoungJoo Jeong, Carnegie Mellon University The 2009 Google Anita Borg Scholarship Finalists Cindy Rubio Gonzalez, University of Wisconsin-Madison Maria Kazandjieva, Stanford University Rachel Sealfon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Shilpa Arora, Carnegie Mellon University Pinar Muyan-Ozcelik, University of California-Davis Kristi Morton, University of Washington Carrie Ruppar, TBD Ekaterina Gonina, University of California-Berkeley Kelli Ireland, University of Pittsburgh Xia Zhou, University of California-Santa Barbara Corey Toler-Franklin, Princeton University Chaitrali Amrutkar, Georgia Institute of Technology Krystle de Mesa, University of California , San Diego Sonal Gupta, University of Texas at Austin Sujatha Nagarajan, University of Illinois at Chicago Julia Schwarz, University of Washington Wendy Stevenson, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Supriya Vadlamani, Cornell University Tracy Chou, Stanford University Alyssa Daw, California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo Rachelle Fuhrer, University of California , San Diego Jennifer Harrison, Arizona State University Margaret Leibovic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sneha Popley , Texas Christian University Kyle Rector , Oregon State University Jacinda Shelly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sarah Shiplett, Wellesley College Manasi Vartak, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Angela Yen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Valerie Yoder, Westminster College For more information on our scholarship programs, please visit www.google.com/jobs/ scholarships Posted by Meghan O’Farrell, Talent & Outreach Programs

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