Computer Science Majors Honored at Banquet

Fourteen undergraduate and graduate students were recognized for their academic achievements at this year’s Computer Science Academic Excellence Awards Banquet, held Sept. 12 at Alumni Hall.

The photo at left shows Executive Vice Chancellor Jacqueline Moloney, center; Dean Robert Tamarin, far left; Computer Science Department Chair Jie Wang, far right; and keynote speaker and benefactor David Shulman, fifth from right, with some of the students during the banquet.

“We wanted to reward and recognize the student’s academic achievements with merit-based cash awards,” says Wang. “The awardees were selected by the faculty based on the students’ GPA and other academic performance measures.”

A total of $17,100 in scholarships was given this year. The students and the honors they received are as follow:

• Ryan Beaven, Ryan Buckley, Janice Marie Cosentino, Christopher Deveau and Elizabeth Tran (David E. Shulman Scholarship for Excellence in Computer Science)
• Daniel Gabriel and Victoria Kaercher (Muthvelraj Scholarship for Excellence in Computer Science)
• Ross Caisse (Martin J. Schedlbauer Computer Science Endowment Scholarship)
• Zheng Fang and Beibei Yang (Bryon Drigian Memorial Scholarship)
• Mark Micire (Ziagos Family Endowment Scholarship)
• William Wesley Gordon (Computer Science Endowed Scholarship)
• Matthew Quellette and William Brendel (Computer Science 25th Anniversary Scholarship)

Schulman, who received his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from UMass Lowell in 1985 and now works for Motorola, gave a talk on “Beyond College – Lessons in Learning.”

For more information, visit the Computer Science Department website. To see more photos of the banquet, visit UML’s photo gallery.

- Edwin_Aguirre