Paul Linden elected to UK National Academy of Science

Paul Linden, the Blasker Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering and chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has been elected as a fellow to the United Kingdom’s National Academy of Science in recognition of his worldwide influence on the field of experimental fluid dynamics. more

Jacobs School of Rock

Serge Belongie, a computer science and engineering (CSE) professor, has started a new concert series featuring bands affiliated with UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering.

The concert series kicks off on June 8th from 6 p.m. -11 p.m. at Porter’s Pub on the UCSD campus and is nicknamed the “Jacobs School of Rock” or JSOR for short (even engineers wielding electric guitars like acronyms). more

Science, Nature (& others?): No Word 2007 Manuscripts

If you’re preparing a manuscript for submission, it’s absolutely crucial you read the publishers “instructions for authors” section in the early stages because you don’t want your work sent back (often without being read) for not following the journal’s style guidelines. And here’s another reason to check.

Currently, Science and Nature are not accepting Word 2007 manuscripts. I scanned a few other publisher sites and did not see much about this. However, there may also be variation among journals from the same publisher (Wiley’s Systems Engineering currently does not accept these files and requests that you save to the older (.doc) version, while Angewandte Chemie IE offers Word 2007 templates).

While this will be a non-issue for many authors, who either submit in other formats or are still using something like Word 2003, it still illustrates the importance of reviewing those publisher instructions carefully.

h/t: O’Reilly Radar, via Undernews