The Dean’s Teaching Showcase nominee for this week comes from the College of Sciences and Arts. Dean Bruce Seely has chosen to recognize Scott Kuhl, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science with an adjunct appointment in Cognitive and Learning Sciences. Dean Seely values “what Scott Kuhl attempts to accomplish as a teacher . . .
Houghton Makes Energy Prize Semifinals by Jennifer Donovan, director of news and media relations Tomorrow, Houghton County is hosting a community-wide celebration as Georgetown University announces that the county has advanced to the semifinals in the national Georgetown University Energy Prize. Many Michigan Tech faculty, staff and students are helping promote Houghton County’s entry, an . . .
Professor Ching-Kuang Shene (CS) has received $53,396 from NSF through the University of Notre Dame for the first year of a potential two-year research and development project totaling $67, 216, “CGV: Small:Graph-Based Techniques for Visual Analytics of Big Scientific Data.”
CS Assistant Professor Scott Kuhl was conference chair for the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2014, publications chair for ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction 2014, and a workshops chair for IEEE Virtual Reality 2014.
Philart Jeon: PI, National Health Institute. “NRI: Colloborative: Interactive Robotic Orchestration – Music-based emotion and social interaction therapy for children with ASD,” 2014-2017. Philart Jeon: Co-PI, US DOT-OST, National University Rail Center Project. “NURail-Tier I,” 2014-2017 Robert Pastel & Charles Wallace: CI-Team, National Science Foundation.”Environmental CyberCitizens: Engaging Citizen Scientists in Global Environmental Change through Crowdsensing . . .
CS Adjunct Assistant Professor Myounghoon (Philart) Jeon was appointed as an Associate Editor of MIT Journal Presence: Teleoperations and Virtual Environments and appointed as Chair-elect of Affective Design Technical Committee in the International Ergonomics Association.