Congratulations to Dr. Bill Hollingsworth for receiving the 2021 Creative Teaching Award. The Creative Teaching Awards recognize University of Georgia faculty for excellence in developing and implementing creative teaching methods to improve student learning. Dr. Hollingsworth's selection was based on his dedication and creativity to ensure student success through the development of an online learning program called Grafstate. This platform has helped transform courses such as the Theory of Computation.

Congratulations to Dr. In Kee Kim (Co-PI) and Dr.  Lakshmish Ramaswamy (Co-PI), along with Drs. Sonny Kim (PI - Engineering), Deepak Mishra (Co-PI - Geography), and Lori Sutter (Co-PI - Forestry), for receiving a 3-year NSF/NIFA grant for the proposal titled: "SitS: AweSOMSense: Multi-modal Sensing and Analytics Framework for Modeling Belowground SOM in Salt Marsh Wetlands."

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Wenwen Wang on receiving a 2021 M. G. Michael Award for Sciences from the Franklin College of Arts and Science at UGA! The M. G. Michael Award, which recognizes excellence in research, was established in 1944 to stimulate new initiatives in scholarship in all areas of the Arts and Sciences.

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Bill Hollingsworth on receiving a 2021 Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching Award! These awards for excellence in teaching annually honor outstanding faculty in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at UGA who have shown a sustained commitment to high-quality instruction.

• Registration is still open! Hackers can find the registration form at https://6.ugahacks.com/. You must apply to attend!
• There will be rolling admissions until February 5, 2021!

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Georgia invites applications for two full-time  non-tenure track lecturer positions starting August 2021.

For more details and application information, please see the full job advertisement here.

To apply, please go to: https://www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/179828.

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Georgia invites applications for a full-time tenure-track assistant professor position starting August 2021.

For more details and application information, please see the full job advertisement here.

To apply, please go to: https://www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/179799.

This November, Emily Towery’s essay “Creating Conversation: A Comparison of English and Turkish Phrase Structures” appears in The Classic, the Writing Intensive Program’s journal of undergraduate writing and research. This paper aims to compare the structure and syntax of English and Turkish, ultimately revealing similarities and a deeper connection between the two languages.

The Institute for Cybersecurity and Privacy has a new website: https://cybersecurity.uga.edu/. Check in regularly for the latest news and updates from the institute. 

Congratulations to Dr. Roberto Perdisci for receiving a 2-year DARPA grant for the proposal titled: "Gnomon: A Dynamic IP Intelligence Framework for Botnet Remediation (TA1)."