MENTOR COMMENDED: Electrical engineering professor Robert Gray received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring for his efforts in recruiting and supporting women in engineering. Twelve of the 42 doctoral students Gray has supervised during his 33-year Stanford career have been women.
WRITE STUFF: International relations major and Stanford Daily staffer Vauhini Vara, ’04, was selected as the first Daniel Pearl Memorial Journalism Intern and will work in an overseas bureau of the Wall Street Journal this summer. The internship commemorates the life and work of Pearl, ’85, a Journal reporter who was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan in 2002.
ENGINEERING ACCOLADES: Computer science and electrical engineering professor Hector Garcia-Molina, MS ’75, MS ’77, PhD ’79, received one of engineering’s top professional distinctions in February when he was elected to the National Academy of Engineers. Stanford’s 82nd academy member was honored for his research in distributed information systems. The academy awarded its 2003 Draper Prize to emeritus aeronautics and astronautics professor Bradford Parkinson, PhD ’66, and fellow GPS pioneer Ivan Getting.
