


Bryan Banville, a sophomore in Biomedical Engineering, was selected one of just 12 students across the UConn campus in 2008 to participate in the intensive Connecticut Leadership Legacy Experience program. Read more. Dr. Richard Parnas, received the High Merit Award in the 2007 Pioneering Nanotechnology Competition sponsored by Masscal Scientific Instruments of Orlando, FL. Read more. The Civil & Environmental Engineering department held its third annual Career Fair Tuesday, February 19, 2008 in the Rome Commons Ballroom. The event drew 56 companies. Read more. Professor emeritus Lee Langston wrote a series of short primers for the Hartford Courant's Newspaper in Education (NIE) feature for K-12 students, covering thermodynamics and energy. Read more. Professor emeritus Mahmoud A. Melehy has signed with Oxford University Press for publication of his book, Interfacial Transport: A Generalization of Einstein's Theory of Brownian Motion with Interdisciplinary Applications. Read more. The School of Engineering will once again host the state-wide Connecticut Invention Convention (CIC) at Gampel Pavilion on Saturday, May 3. Read more.	More Engineers Week Activities Thursday, Feb. 21, 3-5 PM Paper Airplane Contest UConn Coop Careers, Internships, etc. Read more. UConn's Career Services will offer a presentation on "Finding an Internship." Event details: Tuesday, February 26 at 4 p.m. in CUE 134. View the full list of Career Services presentations here. The New York City Transit Authority will hold a career fair in Brooklyn on March 6, 2008 from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm. Click here for details. The Department of Defense announces a 10-week summer internship, the Joint Educational Opportunities for Minorities (JEOM), providing students an opportunity to work on exciting and rewarding projects at national laboratories and test centers. Click here for details. NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) invites applications for its fall 2008 scholarship program for undergraduate and graduate students. Click here for details.