Mathematics is Focus of Two Grants CAMPUS CURRENT
Google Pioneer to be Commencement Speaker MARISSA MAYER TO ADDRESS GRADUATES MAY 15
Marissa Mayer, Google’s first
female engineer
and the youngest mem- ber of its executive op- erating committee, will deliver the keynote ad- dress during the 53rd Commencement cere- mony Sunday, May 15, at 1:30 p.m. Mayer
started at
Google in 1999 as its 20th employee and first woman engineer. As vice president, Consumer Products, she leads the
product management and engineering efforts of Google’s local, mobile, and contextual discovery products including Google Maps, Google Maps for Mobile, Local Search, Google Earth, Street View, Latitude and more. At 35 years old, she is also the youngest member of Google’s executive operating committee. During her 11 years at Google, Mayer has led product manage- ment and design efforts for Google web search, images, news, books, products, toolbar and iGoogle. Mayer’s contributions and leadership have been recognized
by numerous publications including the New York Times, News- week and BusinessWeek. Fortune magazine has listed her for the past three years on their annual list of Most Powerful Women, and she was the youngest ever to appear on the list. In 2010, Mayer was honored by the New York Women in Communi- cations, Inc. with a Matrix Award. She also has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and Woman of the Year by Glamour Magazine.
Trustee Update
Harvey Mudd College Board of Trustees approved the appointment of new trustees at board meetings in October and January. Jim Bean ’77, a mathematics alumnus, senior vice president
and provost at the University of Oregon, was formerly the Harry B. Miller Professor and dean of the Lundquist College of Business at Oregon. He spent 24 years at the University of Michigan and is the past president of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), a charter Fellow of the Institute, and recent winner of the George E. Kimball Medal. Bean earned a master’s and Ph.D. from Stanford University in operations research. Ann McDermott ’81, a chemistry alumna, is Esther Breslow
Professor of Biological Chemistry at Columbia University in New York. A member of the National Academy of Sciences and winner of the 1996 American Chemical Society Award for Pure Chemistry, her research focuses on the use of NMR spectroscopy to study a variety of biological systems. McDermott received her Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Greg Rae ’00, a computer science/mathematics alumnus,
returns to the board after serving from 2006 to 2009 as a young alumni trustee. Rae co-founded and was chief technology officer of Shiny Boxes. He worked as a software engineer at Google for six years then founded 22 by 7 Labs, an Internet technology company, in 2006. He serves on the board of several non-profits, including Living Liberally and the National Leadership Council. H. Tayloe Stansbury is senior vice president and chief tech-
nology officer of Intuit, with responsibility for all product develop- ment. He has more than 27 years of experience in the software industry, most recently as chief information officer of VMware. Previous positions include executive vice president of Ariba and executive engineering and general management roles at Calico Commerce and Xerox. Stansbury graduated with honors in math and computer science from Harvard University. John Vickery ’90/91 earned a bachelor’s degree in physics
Top value
The Princeton Review recently declared HMC a Top 50 Best Val- ue private college. High school seniors and their parents seem to agree: overall, applications for admission are up 16% over last year. Applications from women are up 17 percent, and there was an increase of 10 percent from international students.
and economics and a master’s in engineering from HMC. He works at Sony DADC where he is responsible for business development across all studios and content/distribution rights owners. While a partner at Accenture, Vickery specialized in the media and enter- tainment industry. In June 2010, the Vickery family was honored for a $1 million endowment of HMC’s Global Clinic Program.
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