David Berkowitz, chemistry, was appointed to the Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. The BCST, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy, is aimed at ensuring the nation’s decision-makers receive independent, objective advice on matters related to chemistry and chemical engineering.
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Department of Computer Science and Engineering researchers have had multiple papers accepted to the 2019 IEEE INFOCOM event, a top-ranked conference on networking in the research community. The papers, which IEEE accepted at a rate of 19.7 percent for this year’s conference, were contributed by Deepak Nadig, Byrav Ramamurthy, Brian Bockelman, David Swanson, Minh Vu, Lisong Xu, Sebastian Elbaum, Wei Sun, Mohannad Alhanahnah, Qiben Yan, Hamid Bagheri, Yutaka Tsutano and Witawas Srisa-an.
Funding
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
B. Bockelman, $254,595, Princeton University
"Institute for Research and Innovation in Software for High Energy Physics (IRIS-HEP)"
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
B. Sharif, $241,331, National Science Foundation
"CAREER: Empowering Software Engineering with Eye Tracking"
Department of Sociology
K. Dombrowski, B. Khan, $505,863, University of Massachusetts Amherst
"Promoting Community Conversations About Research to End Native Youth Suicide in Rural Alaska"
Accolades and funding information provided by the Office of Research and Economic Development
