Dear CIAN Collaborators,

Letting you know that the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) grant we worked on together has been awarded!

Just heard from NSF Program Director Esther Bolding; NSF will fund 10 REU students per year for 3 years. This will be supplemented by 2 REU positions from base CIAN funding for a total of 12 per year for 3 years:

UA: 4 – Kueppers, Khitrova, Norwood, Seraphin (student services with SROP)
UCSD: 3 – Fainman, Vahdat, Lomakin (student services with STARS)
Berkeley: 1 – Wu (student services with SUPERB)
UCLA: 2 – Huffaker, Jalali (student services with CENS)
Columbia: 2 – Zussman, Bergman (student services with NSEC)

Your work on the proposal made this possible – thanks for your letters of support, research descriptions, advice, and help with the budget (Rick, will be easier next time!).

Please plan to hear from me soon regarding IOU student selection; I'm looking forward to our work together.

Have a great weekend, Meredith --

Meredith Kupinski, Ph.D.
Director of Education
Engineering Research Center
for Integrated Access Networks
University of Arizona
College of Optical Sciences
520.626.3985
meredith@optics.arizona.edu
www.cian-erc.org

CSE Members awarded the Gordon Engineering Leadership Fellow. Amin Vahdat, Professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering and CSE undergraduate Sarah Esper, have been awarded the Gordon Engineering Leadership Center's Gordon Fellows.

The Gordon Center was established in January 2009 with the mission of educating and training effective engineering leaders who create new products and jobs that benefit society. In order to provide positive role models for students of engineering, the Gordon Center holds an annual awards ceremony to recognize exemplary engineers at the high school, undergraduate, graduate, and professional level. Recipients of the Gordon Fellows Medal not only must be outstanding engineers within their respective fields but must also have a proven record of leadership successes.

To learn more about the Gordon Center's mission and goals, please click here.

LenSense was the only university team named a finalist in Nokia mobile technology competition.

By University Communications
April 24, 2008

A team of University of Arizona student entrepreneurs more than held its own in a competition among the mobile phone industry's leading innovators.

LenSense, a student-run company established through the UA's McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship, was the only university team among the 12 finalists in Nokia's "Mobile Rules!" Challenge – the world's leading annual competition for business plans, applications and technology innovation in the business environment.

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