Topic “Recognition”

Congratulations to Professional Science Master’s degree student, Warren Cole, in the Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, for receiving a summer internship from the Open Science Data Cloud – Partnership for International Research and Education (OSDC-PIRE) project.  Cole will do his internship work at the internationally-acclaimed Beijing Institute of Genomics in Shenzhen, China.

CHARLOTTE, NC - Ph.D. student Yousra Javed, in the Department of Software and Information Systems, is the first UNC Charlotte student to be awarded the Philanthropic Educational Organization (P.E.O.) International Peace Scholarship.  All recipients can receive up to $10,000, which is renewable.

Congratulations to Depaertment of Software and Information Systems' Ph.D. student Christopher Hudel for taking first place in UNC Charlotte's 13th annual Graduate Research Symposium poster competition.

Jing Xiao, Ph.D., Professor of Computer Science at UNC Charlotte’s College of Computing and Informatics, has been named an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow.  She is being recognized for contributions to robot compliant motion and haptic interaction. Xiao’s core work addresses the physical interaction between a machine and objects it manipulates, which impacts the application of robotics and haptics in autonomous assembly operations, tele-operations, virtual prototyping, and virtual training of surgical operations.