Top graduate students in Princeton University's Department of Computer Science will receive a prestigious award and lifelong membership in a network of leading scholars under the newly established Siebel Scholars program, funded by a gift from the Thomas and Stacey Siebel Foundation.

The International Society for Computational Biology has awarded the 2011 Overton Prize to Prof. Olga Troyanskaya of Princeton's Department of Computer Science. The annual prize is awarded for outstanding accomplishment to a scientist in the early to mid stage of his or her career who has made a significant contribution to the field of computational biology.

Martin Suchara has won the Best Student Paper Award at the 2011 SIGMETRICS conference. His paper on "Network architecture for joint failure recovery and traffic engineering" was co-authored with Dahai Xu, Robert Doverspike, and David Johnson from AT&T Labs--Research and Jennifer Rexford from Princeton.

Professor Jennifer Rexford is one of four Princeton Faculty members to receive a Graduate Mentoring Award from the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning.

Edward Felten was elected as a 2011 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Kay Ousterhout'11, Comuter Science major wins $250,000 Hertz Fellowship for Graduate Study.

Prof. David Blei has received a 2011 Young Investigator Research Award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR).

Congratulations to Professor Michael Freedman, recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, 2011.

The IEEE Board of Directors elevates Professor Kai Li to IEEE Fellow. The Board of Directors confers the title of Fellow upon a person of outstanding and extraordinary qualifications and experience in IEEE-designated fields, who has made important individual contributions to one or more of those fields.

Congratulations to Hijung (Valentina) Shin and Patrick Wendell, two of the three winners of the 2011 Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award. Congratulations to Kay Ousterhout and Michael Ty who were selected for Honorable Mention.

In 2001 archaeologists in Peru found 20 conch shell trumpets in an ancient ceremonial center. Researchers used software to characterize the acoustic properties of each shell, reconstruct the shell's interior, and study how the shape of the stone ceremonial chamber where they were found would alter the sound.

Professor Ed Felten has been named the first chief technologist to the Federal Trade Commission. He will advise the agency on issues relating to technology and help guide related government policy.