UARC Team Selected for Ames Honor Award

October 2009

UCSC members of the Wildfire Research and Applications Partnership (WRAP) Team were selected for an Ames Honor Award for excellence in the category of Group/Team. The UCSC award winners are:

Bob Billings
RoseAnne Dominguez
Eric Fraim
Dennis Gearhart
Patrick Grant
Ted Hildum
Jeff Myers

Thank you for bringing credit and prestige to the UARC!

Kurt Long Selected for Ames Honor Award

September 2009

Aerospace Computing, Inc. (ACI) employee Kurt Long was selected to receive a 2009 Contractor Employee Ames Honor Award. Thank you for bringing credit and prestige to ACI and to the UARC!

Ames Poster Session

August 2009

UARC STI interns showcased their research on August 5th and participated in a contest for best poster presentation during the Ames 70th Anniversary celebration. The posters were evaluated on organization, results and graphics. Judges this year include Maylene Duenas (NASA) and UARC staff Adrian Agogino, Min Xue, and Avijit Mukherjee. Congratulations to Paul Stiverson for this summer’s best poster presentation winner (see photo below). Paul will receive travel support up to $1500 to a conference of his choosing within the technical field of research.

Greg Hornby's Prespective Published in Science

July 2009

Greg Hornby was recently recognized by Science Journal, one of the world’s most prestigious scientific journals, by having his Perspective published.  This is a significant achievement as Science Journal has one of the highest impact factors of all scientific publications, according to Wikipedia.  Congratulations to Greg on this accomplishment and for being recognized by a scientific journal which rarely publishes work in the field of Computer Science. 

To read the full article please visit:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/325/5938/277