CIS Undergrads Receive Academic Honors
CIS Seniors Alex McCulllough and Nhu Tran were named to the Alpha of Oregon Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Society. McCullough was further selected to be a member of the prestigious Oregon Six group of Phi Beta Kappa. Each year, the Phi Beta Kappa society honors students whose undergraduate academic records reflect excellence in a rich liberal arts education. Six exceptional members are further designated the Phi Beta Kappa Oregon Six because they combine extraordinary breadth and excellence in upper-division liberal arts courses with very high grade point averages.
Alex will receive his B.S. in CIS and French with a minor in Environmental Science. Alex held a summer internship with Intel and studied abroad in France for a year. His Honors College thesis is entitled Boundaries and the Biophilic Ethic: Assessing Urban-Nature Tension in American Green Development. Alex will be joining the Peace Corps after graduation.
Nhu will receive her B.S. in CIS with minors in Mathematics and Economics. Nhu was member of the software engineering team that designed the Haptic Soundscape UO Campus map and she held a year- long internship at LogicTools in Eugene.
Willow Bauman has been selected to receive the Geoffrey Eric Wright Outstanding Junior Award. Established in 1996 by the Wright Family in memory of their son, this award recognizes academic excellence at the junior level and the promise of further outstanding achievement in computer and information science. Willow has a 4.12 overall GPA. Faculty describe her as diligent, passionate, alert, focused, and insightful in all aspects of her academic studies. Willow will work as an intern at the UO Educational Technologies Center this summer.
Juniors Jimmy Hastings and Scott Brooks will share the Erwin and Gertrude Juilf's Scholarship for students who show exceptional promise for achievement as evidence by GPA, originality of research, and outstanding accomplishments in CIS. Both have demonstrated tremendous motivation in their courses as well as academic performance equal to that of strong graduate students. Jimmy is in the UO Marching and Symphonic Bands, and hopes to create new technologies that change the way people look at the world. Scott, an LCC transfer student, will be working in Prof. Jun Li's Network Security Research Group as a National Science Foundation REU student.
Junior Aaron Parecki is a double major in CIS and Multimedia Design. He is a talented visual artist, gifted pianist and composer of electronic music, as well as an outstanding computer science student. Aaron took the lead on two recent CIS projects to bring the world of computer technology to the blind: he co-designed a rhythm game for blind computer gamers, and he was an invaluable member of an interdisciplinary team project to develop the Haptic Soundscape UO campus map for blind students.