A lot has been happening in the field of graduate education abroad. This post is about specifically presenting concise pieces of information about what is happening. Lets start with news on scholarships. NVIDIA Corp of USA has a fellowship program for graduate students called NVIDIA Fellowship Program 2009. Quoting from their site, “The NVIDIA Fellowship Program provides funding to Ph.D. students who are researching topics that will lead to major advances in the graphics and digital media industry, and are investigating innovative ways of leveraging the power of the GPU. We select students each year who have the talent, aptitude and initiative to work closely with us early in their careers. Recipients not only receive crucial funding for their research, but are able to conduct groundbreaking work with access to NVIDIA products, technology and some of the most gifted minds in the field”. Application materials for NVIDIA Fellowships are available now and must be submitted by February 3, 2009. Fellowship recipients will be notified in March 2009. However, one of the eligibility criteria for NVIDIA fellowships is that the students need to be enrolled as PhD students in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, System Architecture, Electrical Engineering, or a related area.

On climate news from Yale - members of the Indian Youth Climate Network - speaking across India have been stressing the fact that places like Goa in India are going to be worst affected by climate change and global warming. Yale University graduate, Alexis Ringwald, and Yale engineering graduate, Caroline Howe, Abhishekh Bhardwaj and Deepanjali Gupta members of the Indian Youth Climate Network (IYCN), were speaking at the Goa Architecture College at Altinho. A group of 50 from the Network have been travelling across school and college campuses, villages and communities across India encouraging people to use renewable energy. Here is more about this (TOI).

And in other news - given the economic slowdown globally - a lot of top notch universities like Harvard, Princeton, MIT have put on hold certain expansion projects. So a lot of construction projects have been put on hold for sometime, amidst the growing uncertain economic landscape of the US. Analysts from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) say schools will most likely favor renovation and expansion over new construction.