News

UCF’s student chapter of the ACM won the ACM’s Student Chapter Excellence Award for Outstanding Community Service 2011-2012.

The TLE TeachLivE mixed-reality teaching environment, which supports teacher practice, won an honorable mention in the 2012 National Consortium for Continuous Improvement in Higher Education’s Leveraging Excellence Awards.

The University of Central Florida will host more than 7,000 students, educators and parents from all 50 states during the 28th Annual Science Olympiad National Tournament on May 18-19, 2012.

Congratulations to Drs. Joseph LaViola and Marshall Tappen. Their tenure and promotion to associate professor cases were approved by the president and provost and will be effective in August!

The UCF Programming Team (including Matt Fontaine and Antony Stabile) finished fifth in the University of Chicago Invitational, completing 7 of the 10 problems posed in the 5 hour contest. They were only beaten by Waterloo, Harvard, Stanford and Princeton. The team is heading to compete in the World Finals in May.

Peter Tonner, an undergraduate research student, won second place in the Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence (SURE) of 2012 under the Engineering and Computer Science II category.

The research of Dr. Shaojie Zhang, an assistant professor in the Computer Science division of EECS, was described in Genome Technology magazine.

Congratulations to Emily Sassano on being awarded an NSF fellowship. Emily is one of our recently admitted PhD students working with Dr. Sumit Jha.

Congratulations to Dr. Gita Sukthankar, who is the recipient of the 2012 Award for Faculty Excellence in Mentoring Doctoral Students in the Engineering, Physical Sciences, and Life Sciences category.

Congratulation to Dr. Shaojie Zhang’s student, Peter Tonner, who won the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF) Poster Award.