The Cluster Computing Group (in the bodies of Alex Lemann, Kevin Hunter, and Charlie Peck) recently attended SIAM's Computational Science and Engineering conference in Costa Mesa, California. They presented a poster on computational science education and worked on their OpenMPI benchmarking project while they were there. They'll be back in California next month to attend a workshop at the Humanities Research Institute at UC Irvine, and again in April to teach a workshop at the San Diego Super Computing Center. During the first week in March they, hopefully along with a bunch of Earlham CS students, will be at the ACM's computer science education conference in Covington, Kentucky.
If you've read this far you must be bored; in that case there's a podcast of Charlie talking about computational science education recently on a local NPR station here: feed://www.wmub.org/rss/TalkShows.xml
This from Micah Acinapura, a recent CS grad: "I recently got a new job programming games for the xbox360 at a company called Gaia Industries. The game I'm working on now is being published by EA (Electronic Arts, one of the worlds largest video game publishers), and they just put out the press release for it. The game is called "Wing Commander Arena" and it will be the first major game that I have made. Here are some links from some press that we got today, and the last link has screen shots of the game. We're still working hard on the game but it should be comming out around June."
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=12861
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/sim/wingcommanderarena/screenindex.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=gsimage