Statistics Ph.D. student Jeffrey Regier has been awarded the 2013 Google US/Canada Fellowship in Machine Learning. Only 15 of these highly competitive fellowships were given out this year, and only one in machine learning. Please congratulate Jeff on receipt of this prestigious award.

There's more information in this Google Research blog post:

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2013/06/2013-google-phd-fellowships-5-years-of.html