Center member Anima Anandkumar was awarded a Google Research award grant for Fall 2015. Google Research Awards are an “annual open call for proposals on computer science and related topics including machine learning, speech recognition, natural language processing, and computational neuroscience.” Awards are highly competitive, with 151 projects funded of 950 proposals. Grants include funding for a graduate student, and provide opportunities for students and faculty to collaborate directly with researchers at Google. For more information, see the Google Research Blog.