Many congratulations to go around

It’s been quite a week for Computer Science students here at UMM and they definitely deserve some props. In no particular order:

• Emily Christiansen just got back from a wonderful weekend as one of the finalists in this year’s Google Anita Borg Scholarship. Pretty amazingly cool to see our name on that list of schools. Props also to Kristin Lamberty, UMM grad from 2000 and now near the end of her first year as a faculty here, for suggesting that Emily apply, and to Elena Machkasova who’s been Emily’s research mentor for most of two years.
• Andy Korth and Jon Quarfoth just got back from Asheville, NC, where they presented research they’ve been doing with Dian Lopez at the annual National Conference on Undergraduate Education.
• A whole bucket of UMM computing faculty and students just got back from MICS 2006 in Iowa. Andy Lopez and Elena both gave talks, as did two student (Scott Lembcke and Sam Bevier). And, to round it all off a UMM team (Scott Lembcke, Nate Fortuna, and Daniel Selifonov) came in first in the programming contest in a field of over 30 teams.

Well done everyone!