This is a must-watch, 7 minute segment, on today’s CBS Sunday Morning show. It starts with what President Obama said in his State of the Union address about the importance of science and engineering education. It goes on to detail the reality of how we are losing the world’s best and brightest talent. I discuss my research. Many of my students are also featured in this along with my mentor at UC-Berkeley, AnnaLee Saxenian.

inClass is a student organizer/note taker application designed for high school and college students. It allows students to take notes, photos, and record audio and video to supplement their class annotations and share this annotations between each other; besides keeping track and alerting them of their class schedule, homework, exams, and instructorsʼ information and office hours. Its first version was released on September 2010.

This blog provides notifications of scholarship, fellowship, internship opportunities for students in science and engineering disciplines courtesy of Dr. Satchi Venkataraman Associate Professor & Graduate Adviser Dept. of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics at San Diego State University.

http://sdsuscholarshipalert.blogspot.com/

We will be conducting several webinars in the upcoming weeks and months for applicants interested in applying for the Fulbright/mtvU awards.

All the webinars will be held from 2:30 to 4:00 pm Eastern.The dates and registration information for the webinars follows

There have been a number of scholarship, fellowship and summer opportunity announcements in the last month that may be of interest to science and engineering students. You can subscribe to the “scholarship alert” listserve. The archive of email sent are available on the web http://attila.sdsu.edu/pipermail/scholarship_alert/

Just sending out a reminder that the SDSU MARC program has hired a graduate student, Anna Andrade, for writing assistance. She can review personal statements, papers for classes, etc. Her drop in hours are:

The application to attend the 2011 meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U), hosted by President Clinton, is now available online – click here to apply now! CGI U 2011 will take place at the University of California, San Diego from April 1-3, 2011.

First the good news: More women are getting Ph.D.s than men, capping a decades-long march toward parity. And it’s not just in the humanities and social sciences. They also outnumber their male colleagues in the biological and health sciences. But the bad news is that they’re less likely to enter and remain in scientific careers. Beyond the doctoral level, the ratio of women to men starts to dip below one.

Do you know an outstanding young engineer who deserves national recognition for their achievement? MentorNet is excited to announce that it will support as many as five nominees to the Recognition Program for Engineers Week 2011 sponsored by the National Engineers Week Foundation.

Study Skills for Budding Scientists is a web-based, science and research-oriented portal that offers students helpful study tips and easily connects them to valuable online resources. As your students begin their fall semester, please share this website with them and let me know what other topics you or they might be interested in seeing on the site. Here are some questions to consider: