Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 17:20:39 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Spitzer VGSP, GO3 Stats, and Spitzer-Pride for Mac OSX 


Contents of mailing:

1. Statistics on the Spitzer Cycle 3 Call for Proposals
2. Spitzer Visiting Graduate Student Program - deadline April 15
3. Next version of Spot/Leopard for Mac - OS 10.4 or higher required


1. Statistics on the Spitzer Cycle 3 Call for Proposals

Statistics on the Spitzer Cycle 3 Call for Proposals are now
available:

http://ssc.spitzer.caltech.edu/documents/cp3-stats.pdf


2. Spitzer Visiting Graduate Student Program - deadline April 15, 2006

As in previous years, the SSC will be offering
4-5 Visiting Graduate Student Fellowships in the
period July 2006-Jan 2007.

Application instructions can be found on the web page
http://spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/apple/VGSP.html
or through the Spitzer webpage links. These are
6-month positions in which a student from outside
Caltech can apply to work on a research project with
a member of the SSC research staff. Students must be
full-time graduate students (preferably in Ph. D. programs)
at an accredited institution to apply.


3. Next version of Spot/Leopard for Mac - OS 10.4 or higher required

Version 14 of Spitzer-Pride (Spot/Leopard) to be released in
May 2006 will use Java 1.5. For Mac OS users this upgrade in
Java will **require** the use of Mac OS 10.4 or later and the
installation of Java 1.5. As is usually the case, older versions
of Spot/Leopard will not be able to 'talk' to SSC servers
once Version 14 has been deployed so all users who access
SSC services through the Mac OS 10 version of Spot/Leopard
will need to upgrade to OS 10.4 or later at that time.
Java 1.5 for Mac is available at this URL:
http://www.apple.com/java

This is just an early warning for our Mac users that this upgrade
will need to be done at that time.