Posted by Lisa Davis, CIO, Georgetown University Editors note: Today’s guest blogger is Lisa Davis, Chief Information Officer at Georgetown University. Going Google was an opportunity to reimagine technology’s role at Georgetown and unify o…
Posted by Jordan Pedraza, Google Apps for Education Community ManagerIn 2010, Northwestern University, Brady Corporation, and Motorola Mobility came together as organizations using Google Apps for Education or Business to share best practices, showcase…
Posted by Obadiah Greenberg, Business Development Manager, Google Apps for EducationAs a creative writing student at UC Santa Cruz in the early 90s, when I needed to write a story I’d trek across campus over wooden bridges suspended among the age-old…
Here at Google, we love getting to see what people create, and that’s why we’ve launched our second Google Model Your Town Competition, open to people from all over the world. Students have shown us in past competitions what they’re capable of, and thi…
Posted by Tom Mills, Director of Education(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog)This time last year, we were tailgating with the USC marching band at the EDUCAUSE conference—an annual gathering of the higher-education IT community. Last week, wit…
Posted by Tom Mills, Director of Education(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog)Pop quiz: What’s significant about the number 61? (a) Number of points required to win a standard game of Cribbage (b) The country code to call Australia (c) Number …
Posted by Wayne Kimball, Jr., Google HR Associate, NC A&T Class of 2011
Today’s Official Google Blog post highlights the vital role that Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) continue to play in the development of the African-Amer…
Cross-posted on the Gmail BlogI switched to Gmail the first month it came out, mere seconds after receiving an invitation from a friend and two years before joining Google. Since then, I’ve invited hundreds of people, most of whom have happily made t…
Posted by John Collins, Sr. Global Trust Product ManagerIn 1992, while I was an undergraduate at the University of Connecticut, some fellow students and I started an ambitious project to connect residence halls to the campus network and the Internet. A…
Posted by Eric Edens, Apps Edu TeamAround here, our mantra is “think big.” That’s why when we first released Gmail on April 1, 2004 we offered 1GB of free storage—more than 100 times what most other free webmail services offered at the time. No…
Juggling a full schedule of classes, extracurricular activities, projects and office hours can make it especially difficult for students and teachers to manage an already full calendar. Luckily a new feature in Google Calendar called appointment slots …
(Cross-posted on the Official Google and Science Fair blogs)From winged keels to water turbines, from prosthetic limbs to programming in pure English, it’s been a fascinating two weeks for our Google Science Fair judges. It was no easy task to select…
[Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog]I was only 12 years old when I was introduced to BASIC, my first programming language, and it influenced my entire career path. Now working as a female engineer in a male-dominated industry, I recognize the i…
At Google, we’re never afraid to think big, and our mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful doesn’t stop at our exosphere. The universe is full of information, and as we push the boundaries of explor…
To those of you graduating from college this spring, congratulations! You’ve reached a big milestone. As you prepare for this new stage, we want to help you bring what you’ve learned in college with you out into the world.If you attended a univer…