
| Edwin Maurer, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, participated in a study that was featured in the Stanford Report, “How Climate Change Could Have Drastic Impact on California.” This article received a tremendous amount of attention and even played a significant role in the California Air Resources Board’s unanimous decision to adopt the strictest standards in the world for greenhouse emissions. |
 | Thomas Schwarz, S.J., Associate Professor of Computer Engineering, was given a Microsoft Research Grant for his Encrypted Scalable Distributed Data Structures (SDDS) research proposal. There was so much enthusiasm forthe proposal, that even though he did not rank high enough to receive full funding, Microsoft created a "micro-grant" of $5,000 as an unrestricted gift to do research on this topic. |