At the IEEE International Magnetics Conference today in Madrid, IBM Fellow Stuart Parkin received the Daniel E. Noble Award for his fundamental contributions to the development of magneto-resistive devices for non-volatile, high density, random access memory. Dr. Parkin's innovations in memory technologies led to the revolution of the hard disk drive industry and are found in nearly every disk drive on the market today.

MIT announced Oct. 19 a $30 million gift from Joan and Irwin Jacobs (S.M. 1957, Ph.D. 1959) to support graduate fellowships for students in the School of Engineering. Irwin Jacobs, founder and chairman of San Diego-based Qualcomm Inc., a worldwide leader in digital wireless communication, received his master's and doctoral degrees from MIT in electrical engineering and computer science.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has created a new Ph.D. Fellowship Award to honor Fran Allen, a pioneer in computer science.

New center to provide fellowships for aspiring entrepreneurs from the developing world

An MIT graduate student has received a fellowship from a U.S. Department of Homeland Security-funded research center to study the "jihad effect" - that is, how wars impact the trajectory of terrorist movements.

Emphasizing its commitment to building tomorrow’s workforce through education, the Texas Instruments (TI) Foundation announced the first ten teachers who will be inducted into its new Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Academy as fellows.

Ph.D. Fellowship Program offers funding, travel grant and internship at Microsoft Research India; aims to encourage students to pursue careers in research.

Bunker Hill Community College professor Andres Reyes has won a prestigious 2007 Fellowship at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. Reyes, who teaches English as a Second Language at BHCC, will travel this month to Washington to begin a seminar with 17 other Fellows selected through a national competition.

The University of Sydney has been successful in securing five prestigious Federation Fellowships, more than any other Australian university.