Congratulations to Semmy Purewal, who won the Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award. The award will be given in Association of American Colleges and Universities 2007 Annual Meeting (New Orleans, LA, January 2007). This national award recognizes graduate students who are committed to developing academic and civic responsibility in themselves and others, and who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education.

Congratulations to our graduate student, Semmy Purewal, who received the Excellence in Teaching Award. It is the first time a CS student received this award. 

Congratulations to our graduate students Yong Wei, Bradley Wimpey, and Rabia Jafri, who received the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards.

Congratulations to Prof. Hamid Arabnia who was awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award in recognition of his leadership and outstanding research contribution to the field of Supercomputing at the Seventh IEEE BIBE at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, October 15, 2007. This award was presented by President of IEEE/SMC.

Congratulations to Bobby McKnight, Pooya Shareghi and Brian Smith for receiving the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards.

Congratulations to Prof. Eileen Kraemer for winning the Best Paper award at the ACM Southeast Conference, for their paper "A Study of the Performance of Steering Tasks under Spatial Transformation of Input". The paper was co-authored with Professor M. Eduard Tudoreanu (Edi), a former student of Prof. Kraemer.

Prof. Don Potter and the AI Center are featured in an article in the Athens Banner-Herald local newspaper.

Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate, Haibo Zhao, for winning the 2008-09 UGA's Dissertation Completion Award. Haibo's research on Web services is supervised by Prof. Doshi.

Prof. Funk's mother, Harriet Mayor Fulbright, will be the Graduate School's commencement speaker in December 2008.

Congratulations to graduate students Bradley Barnes, Kushel Bellipady and John Harney for winning UGA's Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. This recognition is given to TAs whose teaching performance ranks in the top 10% of all TAs at UGA.

Congratulations to Tomasz Oliwa (advisor: Prof. Rasheed), BJ Wimpey (Prof. Potter) and, Anousha Mesbah and John Harney(both Prof. Doshi) for winning the first, second and joint third prizes respectively, in the recent CS Research Day poster competition. The event featured over 40 posters by graduate student researchers.