News

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.

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.