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| College of
Basic Sciences Dean Arthur R. Choppin Honors Convocation 2008 |
Message From the Chair:
Dear Faculty,
A number of good things have happened and are happening in our
department. I am grateful to all of you for your hard work and perseverance
in elevating the departments to new heights.
The College of Basic Sciences celebrated the 35th annual Dean Arthur R.
Choppin Honors Convocation yesterday at 4:30 at the LSU Faculty Club.
Believe it or not, this has been the most spectacular convocation in terms
of our faculty and students' accomplishments and it looked like a Computer
Science Departmental Honors Convocation.
Here are some statistics:
- Faculty Research Awards: Dr. Karki - College of Basic Sciences Untenured
Faculty Research Award (2008).
- College of Basic Sciences Graduate Teaching Award - Dr. Thomas Sterling.
- College of Basic Sciences Undergraduate Teaching Award - Dr. Gerald
Baumgartner.
- Students Awards:
- Dr. Greg Hussey College Achievement Award: Anshul Tandon (a perfect 4.0
GPA) majoring in CSC & EE with minor in Math. A distinguished undergraduate
student presently working with Prof. Sterling on ParalleX team. He has a job
offer from Google from Aug 2008. This is a great accomplishment for our
student.
- Award of Excellence - Razvan Carbenuscu (CSC & MATH major) working in
the area of coastal modeling group at CCT. He has been admitted to Ph.D
program in Computer Science at UC-Berkeley.
- Award of Distinction - Carrie Butler (CSC with Software Engineering
concentration). Graduating in 2008 and has accepted a job offer from
Microsoft.
- Research Award Winners among students:
- Kevin Kolz working with Prof. Gabrille Allen in the area of scientific
computing. Was recognized for various accomplishments including headtracking
via the wiimote sensor bar based on the work at Carnegie Mellon.
- Alex Nagelberg - working with Prof. Gabrielle Allen worked on SURA
coastal ocean observing and prediction project and presented 2 papers in the
following conferences:
- Nov 2007 SuperComputing Conference in Reno.
- Poster at Mardi Gras 2008 Conference in Baton Rouge.
In short, faculty and student excellence has always been a strength of our
department and the extraordinary number of College Awards won by our faculty
and students in the last few years may not be too surprising. Please join me
in congratulating all the students and the faculty for their achievement.
The slide show and ordering link for photos from this event is now online.
Please click here to
view and order photos.
Click the shopping card icon on the bottom right of the slide bar to the shopping
area if you are interested in ordering prints.
A press release is going out to the local media (Advocate, In-Register, Business Report,
BR Weekly, Tiger Weekly, etc) as well as to the students' hometown newspapers for those not
from the Baton Rouge area.
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