CIS Students Awarded Prestigious Scholarships
A pair of prestigious Dunbar scholarships were recently awarded to CIS graduate student Daniel Stutzbach and CIS undergraduate Edward West for outstanding academic achievements in computer science. James Hastings, another CIS undergraduate, won a George and Susan Fugelsang Scholarship, a competitive scholarship.
The Clarence and Lucille Dunbar Scholarship, awarded by the UO College of Arts and Sciences, recognizes high achieving undergraduate and graduate students in the areas of biology, chemistry, computer and information science, human physiology, geological sciences, mathematics, physics, or psychology. Candidates were nominated by the heads of these departments, and evaluated on the quality of their academic work to date. Ed West and Dan Stutzbach were each awarded $5000 from the Dunbar Scholarship.
Edward West, currently in his junior year, received the undergraduate award, based on his outstanding performance in the 200-level courses. His professors laud his insightful and engaging contributions to the learning atmosphere. Edward is interested in web development, game development and 3-D graphics. He hopes to go on to graduate school to study virtual reality training software.
Daniel Stutzbach is a Ph.D. student working in the Mirage Research Lab with Professor Reza Rejaie. Daniel's research focuses on measurement-based characterization of widely deployed peer-to-peer systems. His work has led to four papers in major networking conferences, and many additional high quality publications in his field. Daniel was also cited for maintaining a perfect 4.0 G.P.A. and for leadership and participation in numerous team victories in departmental and ACM regional programming contests. In 2001, Dan and his team won the ACM Pacific Northwest Regional competition, earning a place in the World Finals.
James Hastings is a sophomore who has just applied for entry into the CIS major. His second interest is music. He is in the UO Marching band and the Symphonic Band and will probably minor in music. In his essay, he wrote, "I have little interest in working on some small component of a video game or piece of software. I want to create new technologies, or innovative ways to use what we have, and in so doing, challenge the way some people look at the world."