In This Issue:

A SEAS Change in Educational Philosophy

Engineering in and for the Community

Googlers Win Marconi Award

Constructing a Framework for Health

SEAS Professors Honored as Great and Distinguished

Biomedical Engineering Conducts Symposium

Financial Engineering Program and IEOR Garner Kudos

Lions of All Ages Celebrate Reunion ’04

Camp Columbia: Call of the Wild

The Changing Face of Engineering - Fellowships

Lucy Alperin ’52 Recalls Her Time at SEAS

Alumnae Share Perspectives at Roundtable

Alumni Briefs

Computer Science Celebrates 25 years

Googlers Win Marconi Award

“To google” is one of the newest verbs in the English lexicon and last month the inspirers of the word and inventors of the process became the latest winners of the Marconi Fellowship Award. Larry Page (left) and Sergey Brin (right), who, as Stanford graduate students created Google, the Internet search engine, were awarded the 2004 prize in a ceremony in Bologna, Italy, marking the 30th anniversary of The Marconi Foundation. The Foundation, established in 1974 by Marconi’s daughter Gioia Marconi Braga, is housed at The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science.

The Marconi Fellowship, awarded annually, is known as “the Nobel Prize of communications,” and honors the world’s top inventors in communications and technology. Francesco Paresce Marconi, Marconi’s grandson and Foundation chairman, awarded the prize, which is given for “creativity in service to humanity.”

Dean Zvi Galil joined John Jay Iselin, president of The Marconi Foundation, and several past awardees for this year’s festivities in Marconi’s birthplace.