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Siebel Scholars Foundation Newsletter - Summer 2010
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2010 SIEBEL SCHOLARS CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Feb. 25 - Century Club, New York
Apr. 5 - MIT Media Lab
Apr. 8 - Field Museum, Chicago
Apr. 22 - Howard Hughes Medical
Apr. 23 - UIUC Hall of Fame
May 5 - Stanford Stem Cell Institute
May 15 - Alguita Marine Research
Jul. 12 - Bay Bridge Retrofit Tour
Aug. 3 - Class of 2011 Announced
Oct. 1-3 - Annual Conference: Energy & Climate at MIT

IN THIS ISSUE
Inside View of Brain Research at HHMI
Technologies of the Future in the MIT Media Lab
Philanthropy Discussion at Century Association
Discoveries at the Stanford Stem Cell Lab
Field Museum Special Collections Tour
Marine Research Expedition in Long Beach
UIUC Hall of Fame Induction
C3 Carbon & Energy Product Demo
2010 Energy & Climate Conference
2011 Trip to China
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Since the program's inception in 2000, the Siebel Scholars community has grown to over 540 leaders from 16 of the world's top graduate schools in bioengineering, computer science, and business.

Through our annual conferences and ongoing regional events, Siebel Scholars have the unique opportunity to directly influence the technologies, policies, and economic and social decisions that shape the future.  In just the past few months, Siebel Scholars have explored fragile marine ecosystems aboard the Alguita research vessel, seen the inner workings of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and helped plan the Energy and Climate conference and our inaugural trip to China.
 
Throughout the year, Siebel Scholars are highlighted via Featured Scholars segments, providing insight into many of these accomplished individuals.  Looking at just a small cross-section, Siebel Scholars have launched more than 250 products, sit on 70 Boards,  started and sold at least 20 companies, and manage over $700 billion - all while volunteering over 8,000 hours a year. We look forward to welcoming 80 new Siebel Scholars to our community this August.
 
As a distinguished friend of the Siebel Scholars Foundation, we encourage you to meet the Siebel Scholars and join discussions via our online community.  Launched this past fall, our private community website allows Siebel Scholars to network, arrange events, manage mentoring and working relationships - including job opportunities - and discuss the world's most pressing issues. Please contact us at ssf@siebel.org to receive your login and password, and for more ideas on how you can connect with our dynamic community.
 
Sincerely,
 
Karen Roter Davis
Executive Director


 
HHMI
An Inside View of Brain Research at Howard Hughes Medical InstituteHHMI
On April 22, Siebel Scholars visited Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Ashburn, Virginia, a new, world-class, $500 million bioengineering research complex.  Siebel Scholars witnessed ongoing research by preeminent scientists in their quest to understand, at the most detailed levels, the inner workings of the human brain...>>more
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MIT Media Lab
MIT Media Lab Researchers Reveal Technologies of the Future
On April 5, Siebel Scholars got a sneak peak of MIT Media Lab's new, six-story, 163,000 sq. ft. state of the art research center, as well as live demonstrations of the latest breakthrough design and technology projects in development...>>more
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Lewis
Lewis Lapham and Ray Lamontagne Lead Discussion on Philanthropy at the Century Association in New York
Lewis Lapham, editor of Lapham's Quarterly and former editor of Harper's Magazine, hosted a conversation with Ray Lamontagne, renowned investor and philanthropist, on February 28.  Before Ray's talk, Siebel Scholars and guests explored the Century Association, a private club of over 2,000 authors, artists, and amateurs of the fine arts...>>more
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Stem Cell Lab Tour
Scientists at Stanford's Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Explain Groundbreaking New Therapies
Dr. Irv Weissman, the National Academy of Sciences award winner whose lab was the first to identify and isolate the blood-forming stem cell from mice, graciously hosted Siebel Scholars and guests on May 5, as they learned from Dr. Weissman and other researchers how they are harnessing the power of stem cells to target and remedy the root causes of today's most devastating diseases...>>more
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Field Museum Tour
Behind the Scenes Tour of Field Museum Special Collections, Chicago
John McCarter, Field Museum Director, hosted Siebel Scholars and guests on April 8 as they toured over 180,000 square feet of the museum's private collections, including cryogenics and dinosaur specimens, and learned from the museum's fish and bird researchers...>>more
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Alguita
Marine Biologists Demonstrate Ecological Impacts of Garbage Pollution Aboard the Alguita Research VesselAlguita
Siebel Scholars observed real-time research by scientists studying the ecological impacts of plastic debris in the Long Beach marina.  Captain Charles Moore, discoverer of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - a patch of garbage twice the size of Texas in the Pacific Ocean - led the excursion and was on hand to explain his research and its implications...>>more
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Tom
Tom Siebel's Delivers Keynote and Inducted Into Engineering Hall of Fame, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Siebel Scholars were on hand on April 23 to congratulate Tom Siebel, along with other prominent engineering Illini, on his induction into the University's Engineering Hall of Fame. Tom gave the keynote address, "IT to ET: The Dynamics of Innovation and Opportunity"...>>more
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C3 Demonstrates Product Aimed at Optimizing Enterprise Energy Strategy and Carbon Footprint
Siebel Scholars got a sneak peak at C3's beta software that helps companies monitor, mitigate, and monetize their carbon emissions.  The impetus for C3 began at the Siebel Scholars 2007 Conference:  The Economics of Alternative Energy, when Siebel Scholars encouraged guests to explore opportunities for making meaningful contributions to global energy issues...>>more
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Conference This fall, Siebel Scholars will gather at MIT to discuss the science of climate change, and to explore technology and policy responses and solutions with leading experts, including:
  • John Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology; Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; and Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
  • Ernest Moniz, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems, director of the Energy Initiative, and Director of the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Amory Lovins, Chairman and Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute
  • Jim Rogers, Chairman, President, and CEO, Duke Energy
  • Thomas Friedman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
  • Richard Sandor, Chairman and CEO, Chicago Climate Exchange
  • Steve Pacala, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Director, Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University
Find out more>>
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China Temple
2011 Siebel Scholars Trip to ChinaChina_Trip
Tom Siebel will lead a delegation of 20 Siebel Scholars and several deans to visit China from May 6-17, 2011.  The purpose of the trip is to provide these leaders with an opportunity to learn about business, technology, and culture firsthand, through visits to businesses and factories, meetings with executives and government ministers, and cultural excursions.  The delegation will gain deeper insight into the issues and opportunities facing China - and the rest of the world.  Find out more>>