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. The study described in the paper was performed as part of the UGA Human-Computer Interaction class.

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 MS student Kalesha Bullard for winning a NSF graduate fellowship. Kalesha will use it to fund her studies toward a MS in CS and MS in Bio and Agri Engg.

Congratulations to Prof. Doshifor winning the 2009 NSF CAREER award for his project titled, "Scalable Algorithms for Individual Decision Making in Multiagent Settings". The CAREER award is the most prestigious grant that NSF awards to early career faculty.

Congratulations to Prof. Ramaswamyand his collaborators at IBM for having a patent granted for their invention, "System and method for achieving different levels of data consistency" (United States Patent 7,395,279).

Computer Science Department alumna Dr. Chunmei Liu won the 2009 NSF CAREER award for her project titled, "CAREER: A Complete System for Protein Identification with Computational Approaches". Dr. Liu received her Ph.D. in Computer Science at University of Georgia in 2006 and is currently an assistant professor at Howard University, Washington DC. The NSF CAREER award is the most prestigious award to faculty in their early careers.