Publish Date: 04/27/2009

On Thursday, April 9, 2009, Upsilson Pi Epsilon (UPE) inducted one of its largest groups of initiates.  Twenty-one students were inducted for the 2008/9 academic year. 

Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) is the first and only international honor society for the computing sciences. The UPE Alpha Chapter of Virginia was chartered at Virginia Tech in 1975. Membership in UPE is limited to students and faculty who can effectively achieve the goals of the society:

• Recognition of outstanding talent in the computing sciences
• Promotion of high scholarship in the computing sciences
• Establishment and maintenance of high standards
• Representation of the computing sciences in interdisciplinary communications
• Encouragement of individual contributions to society through the computing sciences

Congratulations to all the new initiates!