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October 23, 2015 - Issue #7
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CCI Welcomes New Faculty

The College welcomed six new faculty members to the Departments of Computer Science and Information Science during this year's summer and fall terms.

Rock, Paper, Scissors, Co-Op!

How CCI pre-junior Paritosh Gupta designed an innovative, virtual reality game during his co-op as a labs technology intern at A&G Labs, the innovation unit of ad agency Allen & Gerritsen.
 
Read More (via Drexel's newsblog)
UPE
International Honor Society Upsilon Pi Epsilon Selects CCI Students for 2015 Scholarships

CCI students Vu B�i and Josep Valls-Vargas were among 8 undergraduate and graduate students selected for Special Recognition Awards.
 
Denise Agosto Wins 2015 Thomson Reuters Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award

The award recognizes Agosto's outstanding and unique contributions as a teacher in the field of information science. 
Gabriela Marcu
CCI Researchers Partner with A.J. Drexel Autism Institute to Empower Special Educators

Drexel researchers are exploring how technology can better track and compile data for more impactful education for students with special needs.

UbiComp
CCI Research Team Receives Best Paper Award at UbiComp 2015

A CCI ubiquitous computing research team was recognized for their Best Paper Award at the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2015), for their paper titled "From Computational Thinking to Computational Making."

Drexel Faculty Win NSF Grant to Advance Learning Technologies in Computer Science

The project will shed light on the challenges in learning parallel programming and will gather initial data on ways to scaffold it in college-level courses. 
Steven Mann
CCI Alumnus Steven Mann Becomes A Dragon, Again

Steven Mann, (BS/MS information systems, '93, '15) talks with Drexel University Online about his decision to return to Drexel for his master's degree.

Read More (via The Digital Dragon)
Alumni Updates
Christopher Gray's (BSCST, '14) startup company, Scholly,
was selected by AOL founder Steve Case (out of 8 Philly startup finalists) to receive a $100K investment.

Rose Chiocchi (MSLIS, '12), director of the Pike County Library in Milford, Pa., was featured in The Pike County Courier for  a presentation that she gave to the school board on new programs available for high school students at the Pike County Library.

Peter D. Coyl (MSLIS, '10), district manager at the Dallas Public Library, was selected as chair of the American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian, Transgender Round Table (GLBTRT) for a one-year term beginning in July 2015.

John P. Culshaw (MSLIS, '90), university librarian at the University of Iowa, received the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award which honors University of Wisconsin-Parkside alumni who have excelled in achievement and service.

John Dean (BSIS, '09) was promoted to director of business innovation at Omni Cable, a specialty cable and wire distributor.

Bill Egan (BSIS, '94), a director and actor who has been featured in movies and TV shows such as The Sixth Sense and Veep, starred in the  leading role of the play "Mother Tongue" that ran during GayFest!, a 16-day LGBT theater festival held in Philadelphia in Aug. 2015.

Sarah Johnson (
BSCST, '13) was recently hired as the community outreach manager of TechGirlz, a non-profit organization based in Philadelphia dedicated to empowering young women to become future technology leaders.

Hae Min Kim (PhD Info. Studies, '15) was recently hired as
Drexel University Libraries' first data analyst for resource access.

Michael Koenig (PhD Info. Science, '82), a professor at Long Island University, is the recipient of the 2015 ASIST Award of Merit, in recognition of his noteworthy contributions to the field of information science.

Tommy Pope
(BSIS, '03), co-writer of the digital comedy web series Delco Proper, recently launched the series on Comedy Central's website.

Janet A. Tillotson
(MSLIS, '14) was recently hired as the director of the Towanda Public Library in Towanda, Kansas.