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WACO, Texas – The American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) announced its 2013 Division III Coaches All-America team on Monday morning and Washington and Lee senior offensive lineman Connor Hollenbeck (Alpharetta, Ga./Alpharetta) was among those honored. A Computer Science major and 2014 graduate of Washington and Lee University. Read the complete story here
In addition to the first “All-American Honors” Hollenbeck adds yet another All-America Citation Read more here
FELLOWSHIPS RECEIVED
The following students have won, since the last commencement, fellowships in national or international competitions which underwrite their continuing academic endeavors.
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships– (three years of funding in support of graduate study): Camille Morgan Cobb ‘12
Venture for American Fellowship (two years of work and mentoring as an entrepreneur with American start-up companies): Alexander Kairo Anderson Baca ‘14
SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS, AND PRIZES
Computer Science: The Computer Science Department Award: Richard J. Marmorstein
The Kim Family Prize in Economics: Richard J. Marmorstein
Johnson Scholars: Garrett Heath Koller
Mathematics Department: The Taylor Scholarship in Mathematics: Onyebuchi Ekenta
Student Affairs: The Douglas C. Halstead Memorial Scholarship: Jok Genga Asiyo
The Ring Tum Phi Awards: Anton D. Reed
Team Awards: Leigh Williams Memorial Award: Andrew E. Kimberly
Football: Dan Ray Justice Memorial Football Award: Connor Hollenbeck
W&L Programming teams won 2nd and 6th place out of 20 at the annual Dickinson College Programming Contest on Saturday, April 5. Team “Syntax Error to the Thrown Exception” placed 2nd with seniors Richard Marmorstein ’14 and Alex Baca ’14 and first year Lauren Revere ’17. Team “Justice League” placed 6th with seniors Garrett Koller ’14 and Anton Reed ’14 and junior Samantha O’Dell ’15.
In such competitions, teams try to solve as many of the programming problems as possible in the least amount of time, fueled by pizza, snacks, and caffeine. A solution consists of code that correctly executes for all possible correctly formatted inputs. The contest also included teams from Dickinson, Elizabethtown, Ursinus, Gettysburg, Lebanon Valley, and Messiah Colleges and Penn State – Harrisburg. Team “F.R.O.G” from Messiah College won the competition.
The Programming Club and ACM Student Chapter at Washington and Lee is led by Alex Baca ’14.
Congratulations to Camille Cobb ’12, who is a recipient of an NSF (National Science Foundation)graduate Research Fellowship. Camille Cobb is a University of Washington, Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D. student. Research Fellowships are among the most prestigious awards available to graduate students in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) field.
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Computer Science majors Richard Marmorstein ’14 and Bipeen Acharya ’15, and Scott Gould ’15, a computer science minor, will be inducted into the prestigious academic honor society at the Phi Beta Kappa/Society of the Cincinnati Convocation on Thursday, March 13, at 11:45 a.m. in Lee Chapel. The convocation, will recognize and honor 49 members of the junior and senior classes and eight graduates from the class of 2013, all of whom were accepted into Phi Beta Kappa based on their exceptional academic achievements.
Read more: http://news.blogs.wlu.edu/2014/03/07/wl-phi-beta-kappa-chapter-welcomes-poet-professor-and-novelist-lucinda-roy/
Six members of the W&L Programming Club excelled at the annual Longwood Programming Competition, held October 19. The two teams of three placed second and third out of 10 teams competing.
Team ArrayList, which placed second, included senior Richard Marmorstein ’14 and two first-years, Lauren Revere ’17 and Jamie White ’17. Team UnlimitedCodeWorks placed third and included senior Garrett Koller ’14 and third-years Onye Ekenta ’15 and Samantha O’Dell ’15.
In such competitions, teams try to solve as many of the programming problems as possible in the least amount of time, fuelled by doughnuts and caffeine. A solution consists of code that correctly executes for all possible correctly formatted inputs. Both teams solved five of the seven possible problems. Longwood seniors Nick Pastore, Richie Noble, and first-year Andrew Brogan placed first in the contest.
The Programming Club at Washington and Lee is led by Alex Baca ’14. The Club is now preparing for the imminent ACM Regionals competition, which will be held nationally at many sites on November 2. Go Generals!
Thanks to (from left to right) Richard Marmorstein ’14, Alex Baca ’14, Alicia Bargar ’13 and Phil Lisovicz ’13, Washington and Lee University students have a new web application designed to make their schedule planning easier. Corsola: Scheduling Your Life allows students to choose their preferred courses and view potential schedule conflicts. Click here to read more… http://news.blogs.wlu.edu/2013/09/12/new-corsola-web-application-helps-wl-students-plan-course-schedules/
Congratulations to all our computer science majors and minors for their outstanding work and efforts this academic year.
Majors
Alicia M. Bargar
Lee A. Davis
Paul Nguyen
Shannon L. McGovern
Phillip A. Lisovicz
Minors
Amy E. Clayton
Orrin H. Ingram
Ian L. Lenora
Computer Science major, Alicia M. Bargar ’13, was awarded the 2013 Computer Science Departmental Award. This prize is given annually to a Computer Science major who demonstrates academic excellence. Alicia also graduated cum laude.
Computer Science major, Oliver Mahame ’14, was awarded The James McDowell Scholarship. The James McDowell Scholarship endowed by Mrs. Mary B. Ross in memory of her father, James McDowell, former Governor of Virginia, is conferred upon an undergraduate. The award is based on the student’s record during the previous two years here at W&L.
Richard J. Marmorstein ’14, Economics, and Computer Science major was awarded The Edwin Claybrook Griffith Scholarship in Economics. This scholarship is given annually to an economics major who demonstrates academic excellence and leadership in student activities.
Wenda Tu ’14, Computer Science minor won The Williams Prize in Mathematics. The Williams Prize in Mathematics, in honor of Dr. Charles W. Williams (emeritus Professor of Mathematics), is conferred upon the junior mathematics major who has the highest grade-point average in mathematics and who plans to attend graduate school in mathematics.
Computer Science major Olivier Mahame ’14 is being inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, which means that Olivier is in the top 5% of his class by grade point average. Phi Beta Kappa is a national academic society that promotes excellence in the liberal arts and sciences. Congratulations, Olivier!
At SSA 5, Computer Science students represented themselves, their projects, and the department quite well.
Alicia Bargar ’13 started the day off with a presentation about her summer research project, focused on improving the abilities of human-robot interaction, specifically in its use in therapy of children with autism spectrum disorders.
Richard Marmorstein ’14 was the computer science representative in a panel on digital humanities projects at W&L. While the other projects were presented by humanities students, Richard presented his work with Professor Paul Gregory (philosophy) and Professor Sara Sprenkle (computer science) on developing an online symbolic logic tutorial, which is used in Professor Gregory’s Philosophy 170: Introduction to Logic course.
The final poster session featured six computer science students.
Suraj Bajracharya ’14 presented “Simultaneous Localization and Mapping in an Inexpensive Wheeled Robot”, his independent study project with Professor Simon Levy. Audience members could drive the robot and see how the robot visualized obstacles.
Haley Archer-McClellan ’15 and Deirdre Tobin ’15 presented their summer research project, entitled “Exploring a Text-Based Analysis of Persistent-State Dependencies in Web Applications”. They presented their methodology for finding relationships between web application resource names using textual clues. Their work is supervised by Professor Sara Sprenkle.
Three computer science students presented projects based in other departments: Lee Davis ’13 presented a poster on the results his independent study with Professor Natalia Toporikova from biology: “Computational Model of Pre-Botzinger Complex”, while Ginny Huang ’14 and Cathy Wang ’15 presented “Zeckendorf’s Theorem, Tiling Proofs, and the 3-bonacci Sequence”, supervised by Professor Gregory Dresden of the Math Department.
Beyond these presenters, many computer science students also participated in book colloquiums and performances and supported their friends by attending their sessions.