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Please plan to attend an upcoming workshop titled "Developing A Research Agenda for The Energy-Water Nexus" sponsored by the National Science Foundation and is organized by Mike Hightower (Sandia National Laboratory/ASME), Danny Reible (UT Austin/AIChE), and Michael Webber (UT Austin/ASME).  The workshop is organized around three themes:

The DiscoverE Educator Awards are shining a spotlight on the educators who are inspiring tomorrow’s innovation generation. By honoring the teachers who are hard at work in 6 to 12th grade classrooms (here in the U.S. or abroad), the engineering profession wants to show its appreciation and respect for the educators who are helping students discover engineering.  Unique to this program, engineers and engineering students are part of the nomination process. The application and additional program information is available at

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is pleased to announce that for summer 2013 we will again offer three internship programs: RISE (Research Internships in Science and Engineering), RISE professional and RISE worldwide. RISE has established itself as an outstanding opportunity to combine serious research with a rewarding study-abroad experience. All three programs are targeted to students from the fields of engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, earth sciences (geology) and related disciplines.