News

Congratulations to Dr. Lotzi Boloni for receiving $7804 in new funding from General Dynamics for a grant titled: “RCTA -FY 2011 H10 Dynamics of Operating within Social Environments”

UCF CS Ph.D. student Cuncong Zhong, a biologist from Indiana University, Justen Andrews, and UCF Assistant Professor Shaojie Zhang received the best paper award for their paper

UCFTODAY published an article about Dr. Shaojie Zhang’s work on using a complex computer program to analizy RNA motifs. You can read the article here.

Congratulations to Jonathan Cazalas who is receiving the College’s 2012 Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching Award Nomination. This nomination is being forwarded to the College of Graduate Studies.

Congratulations to CS division lecturer Arup Guha, who is receiving the 2012 College Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. Arup is also in the running for the University level award.

Congratulations to Dr. Mubarak Shah for receiving the 2012 College Excellence in Research Award. Dr. Shah’s name will also be forwarded to the University Committee for the university level award, and he will receive a college certificate at the Founder’s Day Honors Convocation on April 4th, 2012.

The cover story of the next issue of Nucleic Acids Research is a story by two UCF EECS CS division authors: Cuncong Zhong and Shaojie Zhang.

Kristjan Arumae, a student in Computer Science studying for his bachelor’s degree, won second place for his essay in BrainTrack’s Computer Science Scholarship.

The work of Dr. Mubarak Shah and several collaborators and students on finding threats in crowds from video is featured in an article in UCF Today’s Science and Technology section.