A tenure-track position with closing date 1 May is available.

The Newsletter and Online teams are working together to combine submission processes where appropriate. New instructions and guidelines for submissions have been posted on the website.

As of March 21, 2009, after only 44 days since launch, the new IT Society website has received 10,028 visits from 118 countries.

The deadline for paper submission to the IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW'09), Taormina, Sicily, Italy, has been extended to *April 5, 2009, 23:00 CET (17:00 EDT)*.

Professor Giuseppe Caire will give a talk this Monday on wireless communications.

Professor Giuseppe Caire will give a talk this Monday on wireless communications.

A final reminder that nominations for the Shannon, Wyner, and paper awards are due on March 1, 2009.

The BBVA Foundation has awarded the 2008 Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies to Professor Jacob Ziv. Ziv's ground-breaking innovations in data compression have had a deep and lasting impact on both the theory and practice of communications and information technology.

The Women in the Information Theory Society (WITHITS) program has a new website.

The IT Society congratulates 19 Society Members, including 3 members of the Board of Governors, who were elected to the rank of IEEE Fellow for 2009.

The IEEE Information Theory Society mourns the loss of Professor Sergio D. Servetto, who passed away on July 24th 2007. He was the sole victim of an accident in a private plane, which he was flying from Michigan to Ithaca, NY.