Graduate Events and Announcements
School of Arts and Sciences GRAD EXPO 2011
The 11th Annual Grad Expo is Thursday, March 24, 2011. All A&S graduate students can submit papers and posters to be exhibited at the William Pitt Union. Outstanding presenters in each category will receive a prize stipend for travel to a conference or to purchase research materials. For more information contact Adrienne Spillar (412-624-6698).
News
We are pleased to announce that our department is now an Academic Alliance member of the National Center for Women & Information Technology, a coalition that works to increase diversity in IT and computing. The Academic Alliance consists of over 400 distinguished representatives from the computer science and IT departments of nearly 200 colleges and universities across the country.[May 2012]
Alice Lingming Lai who received the 2012 Outstanding CS Undergraduate Student Award, has also been awarded a 2012 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to pursue a PhD at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Double Congratulations Alice! Details on the NSF award information can be found at Graduate Research Fellowship Program Awards.[April 2012]
As we approach the last week of classes and finals week, the Teaching Times would like to offer faculty and graduate instructors some information to help students successfully complete the semester in spite of the recent disruptions on campus. Click Class Disruption Tips to learn more about how you can be as productive as possible during this time.[April 2012]
The Computing Research Association's Committee on the Status of Women (CRA-W) and the Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC), chose graduate student Chelsea Mafrica to attend the 3rd summer school workshop on Computer Architecture. Let's offer her a big congratulations! For more information on the workshop, visit: Summer School workshop on Computer Architecture. [April 2012]
Graduate student PJ Dillon has been selected to participate in the 2012 NYC Turing Fellows Summer Internship Program and matched with Sulia, a New York City company focusing on content organization. Let's offer him a big congratulations!You can find more information on the program at: Turing Fellows Summer Internship Program. [April 2012]
Marian Iskander, Ryan Moore, and Thao Nguyen Pham, CS graduate students, received the Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship for the 2012-2013 academic year.[March 2012]
Iyad Batal and Wenting Xiong, CS graduate students, received the Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship for the 2011-2012 academic year.[March 2011]
Wen Xu, CS Graduate student, has been selected to attend CRA-W 2011 Grad Cohort Workshop in April.[February 2011]
Mengmeng Li, CS Graduate Student, awarded the Microsoft Research Graduate Women's Scholarship. This scholarship is a one-year scholarship program for outstanding women graduate students and is designed to help increase the number of women pursuing a PhD. School of Arts & Sciences highlights Mengmeng's award and has a feature story. See Pitt News article.[January 2011]
CS Grad students, Wenting Xiao, Yao Sun, Octavio Herrera, and Emilio Zegarra awarded second place in the Technology Scavenger Hunt of the 6th Annual Love Your Computer Event.[October 2010]
Announcements
Workshop for Women in STEM
$tart $mart Salary Negotiation Workshop for Women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) will discuss how to get the salary you deserve. The workshop is Sunday, December 4th. For more information contact pittstartsmart@gmail.com.
SMART Scholarship Program
The Science, Mathematics, And Research for Transformation (SMART) scholarship-for-service program is an opportunity for U.S. graduate and undergraduate students to be fully funded in a wide range of technical areas. The SMART Scholarship Program brochure has more information.