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VT and NDU to provide extended opportunities to students, faculty

Virginia Tech National Capital Region and the National Defense University Information Resources Management College have signed a memorandum of understanding designed to strengthen the quality and resources of academic programs at both universities. Under the agreement, students who obtain a certificate in information assurance from the college can transfer some graduate-level course credits into selected graduate programs within the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech.

Women in Computing Day

The Association for Women in Computing hosted their biggest and best Women in Computing Day on April 18th, 2008 headed by Meg Kurdziolek and Lise Vincent. Eighty-two middle school aged women attended the days events, and had a great time. The day started with a keynote talk by Brenda Hayes from IBM, and quickly broke into four different sessions. This year the sessions were on robotics, large displays, wireless technology, and bioinformatics. The days event came to a close with a visit from the Hokie Bird, and one student winning an iPod donated by K2. The AWC would like to thank the Computer Science Department and the CSRC Partners for their continual support for this event. Each year this event gets bigger and better and the AWC couldn’t do it without the valorous efforts put forth by all of the volunteers and Computer Science community. Photo taken by Pardha Pyla.

AWC CAMEO Scholarship Winners

The Association for Women in Computing is happy to announce that five of its members are the proud recipients of the annual CAMEO Scholarship. CAMEO is the Council for the Advancements of Minority Engineering Organizations, and on Thursday, April 17th, 2008, they recognized Stacy Branham, Estelle Kim, Lauren Smith, Laurian Vega, Lise Vincent, Kristin Whetstone, and Jenny Kammer. The ladies will be spending their scholarships on summer classes, summer internships, books, and other meritorious expenses. They are very thankful to CAMEO and to continuously serve through the AWC.

Students inducted into Phi Beta Kappa

Four Computer Science majors were recently inducted into the Virginia Tech Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest and most prestigious honor society. Phi Beta Kappa was founded at The College of William and Mary in 1776, and recognizes undergraduate excellence in liberal arts and sciences. Seniors inducted into Phi Beta Kappa are in the top 10% of their graduating class and have earned an overall GPA of at least 3.8.

Pictured left to right are Robert Hagan, Scott Conner, Nicholas Ryan, and William Randolph.

VTURCS Spring Research Symposium

The VTURCS Spring Research Symposium will be on April 24th from 4:00pm to 7:00pm. This year it will take place in Torgersen 1100 (the Torgersen museum)--food will be available for all in attendance! All students are invited to attend to support your classmates, find out about undergraduate research in the CS Department, and assist in the selection of the "People's Choice" awards. Check the VTURCS web site for more details.

NDSSL Project Presented on Capitol Hill

The Comprehensive National Incident Management System being developed by the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory (NDSSL) for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency was presented at a technology forum in March 2008, held by the Senate Armed Services Committee. Professor Chris Barrett, NDSSL Director, is the lead on this project which applies high-performance computing-based decision and policy informatics to simulate and study pandemics and other catastrophic events, natural or man-made.