Krell Institute News

June 2010:

2010 Howes Scholar announced
Dr. Julianne Chung has been named the winner of the 2010 CSGF Howes Scholar Award.  The award will be presented to Dr. Chung at the 2010 Computational Science Graduate Fellowship Conference.  Read more in the press release.

May 2010:

DOE CSGF Fellow is lead author of published paper
A Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship recipient is lead author of a paper, published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences (PNAS), which outlines a way to calculate effects of the Casimir force.

The method described by fourth-year CSGF fellow Alejandro Rodriguez and his Massachusetts Institute of Technology colleagues could have implications for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), microscopic machines with potential applications in medicine, microelectronics and other areas.
The press release has more information.

Department of Energy Awards 21 Computational Science Graduate Fellowships
In 1991, in an effort to address the shortage of computational scientists in the United States, the Department of Energy developed an innovative fellowship program. Now in its nineteenth year, the Department of Energy’s Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) continues its commitment to training the next generation of scientific leaders as it welcomes 21 new students to the program.
There’s more information, including a list of the new fellows, in the press release.

Department of Energy Awards Five Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowships
Recognizing an ever-increasing demand for scientists highly-trained in areas of interest to stewardship science, the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration founded the Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE NNSA SSGF) in 2006.  Now in its fifth year, five new fellows are being welcomed into the program.
Read more in the press release.