Google Faculty Research Awards Announced
Star has some exciting news to announce! Congratulations goes to Dr. Hayes for for receiving a highly competitive Google Faculty Research Award in the area of Privacy. About the Google Research Award: “… the Google Research Awards program aims to identify and support world-class, full-time faculty pursuing research in areas of mutual interest. Google Research Awards are one-year […]
Brubaker’s ICWSM 2012 submission is a best paper candidate!
Congratulations goes to Brubaker, Kivran-Swaine, Taber, and Hayes as their ICWSM 2012 submission, “Grief-Stricken in a Crowd: The language of bereavement and distress in social media” was nominated for a best paper award! Congratulations and good luck in Dublin!
Star Member designated the 2012’s Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research
Minhnhut Thanh Vo will receive the 2012 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. Only one ICS student receives this award each year. Minhnhut works as an undergraduate research assistant with Lynn Dombrowski, creating web-based applications dealing with issues of food insecurity. Congratulations to Minhnhut Thanh Vo!
Lucas Kam awarded UCI Undergraduate “Outstanding Contribution for Research” award
Congratulations to Lucas Kam for being awarded the UCI undergraduate award of “Outstanding Contribution to Research”. Kam has done research with a variety of graduate students, including working Jed Brubaker and his social media and identity projects and Lynn Dombrowski and her backyard bounty project. Again, congratulations to Lucas Kam!
NSF Graduate Fellowships Announced
STAR group did really well on the NSF front this year. First year PhD students Meg Cramer and Jed Brubaker won a fellowship and an honorable mention, respectively. STAR alumna, currently a PhD student at CMU, Gabi Marcu was also a winner. More on the fellowship program can be found at: http://www.nsfgrfp.org/ The National Science […]
STAR Alumna Gabi Marcu awarded Microsoft Graduate Women’s Scholarship
Congratulations to Gabriela Marcu who was awarded a scholarship from Microsoft. From the Microsoft Research website: The Microsoft Research Graduate Women’s Scholarship is a one-year scholarship program for outstanding women graduate students and is designed to help increase the number of women pursuing a PhD. This program supports women in the second year of their […]
Sen Wins UAL Scholarship
Congratulations to Sen Hirano who recently won a scholarship from the United Agribusiness League & United Agricultural Benefit Trust Scholarship Program.
Civic Engagement at UCI
At the Celebration of Teaching, Gillian Hayes was recognized for “Pedagogical Innovation” for transforming an Informatics course into one more focused on service learning. The focus of this award on Civic Engagement reflects a wider push on campus to focus on getting out in the community and using what we know and do to help […]
Gabi wins Honorable Mention in CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Competition
Congratulations to Gabriela Marcu who was selected for Honorable Mention in the highly competitive CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Competition.
IDC papers and Anita Borg Scholarships
Silvia and Gabi won the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship.