Honors and Awards
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Faculty and Staff
Grants administrator EVAN CANTOR received the Employee Recognition Award for September.
MIKE EISENBERG is a recipient of the 2010 Thomas Jefferson Award for his classes inspire origami and
other see-and-touch mathematics. Former chair Liz Bradley wrote of his work, “Mike is one of our best-
RICK HAN and his graduate students won the computer science award in CU’s New Venture Challenge
for their iPhone application, Hoozat, which allows users to view the Facebook profiles of people who are
ROBIN KNIGHT is among fifty of the nation’s best early career science faculty who have received the
prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist Award for 2009. He will receive a
six-year appointment to the Institute, allowing the freedom to explore his best ideas without worrying
about where to find the money to fund those experiments.
CLAYTON LEWIS was elected a member of the Association for Computing Machinery’s CHI Academy,
an honorary group of individuals who have made substantial contributions to the field of computer-human
DOUG SICKER, along with colleagues Eric Frew (aerospace) and Robert McLeod (ECEE) of electrical,
was selected to receive Faculty Achievement Awards from the provost. Sicker was selected as a Senior
Advisor to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) National Broadband Plan, where he is
leading the task force on research and development recommendations. He also recently received an IBM
Faculty Award.
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Students
JUDE ALLRED received the college’s spring award for outstanding graduate for service.
JACOB BURTON, a joint major in computer science and international affairs, has earned the prestigious
Boren Scholarship, offered by the Institute of International Education through their National Security
SCOTT BUSCH received the college’s fall award for outstanding graduate for service.
JONATHAN MAI and MICHAEL TON were recipients of the 2009 Domino Award, which is given
annually to students for an outstanding essay honoring the impact that other computer scientists have
DAMON MCCOY was named a 2009 Computing Innovation Fellow by the Computing Research
Association. This award provides funding for postdoctoral work at the University of California-San Diego
under the mentorship of Stefan Savage.
KATE STARBIRD received an NSF fellowship. She also won second-place with her social media
innovation Tweak the Tweet in a national technology competition, Random Hacks of Kindness, focused
on improving communication during disasters.
Alumni
JAMES BARTON (MS 1982) was honored by IEEE with the 2010 IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer
Electronics Award. The award recognizes Barton for contributions to the development and
