Month: February 2016

Accolades for CSE Alumna

Dr. Heidi Ellis, UConn CSE Ph.D 1994 and Professor of Computer Science and Information Technology at Western New England University is the recipient of several recent awards. Business Insider Magazine – 26 of the most powerful female Engineers in 2016 Finalist for Red Hat “Women in Open Source” Award. Please support our graduates and vote for […]

David Etim: Ph.D. Candidate, Recipient of 2016 NNSA Graduate Fellowship

David Etim, a CSE doctoral student, was recently awarded a National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Graduate Fellowship.  The full-time salaried fellowship program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy is for highly motivated graduate-level students interested in a career in nuclear security. As reported by UConn Today, David has a strong interest in data analytics as […]

Dr. Nabavi Receives NIH Pathway to Independence Award

Congratulations to Professor Sheida Nabavi for receiving a NIH Pathway to Independence Award for her project entitled: Novel Integrative Method to Detect Biomarkers of Breast Cancer Resistance. As stated in her abstract, “Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is defined by the lack of expression of estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 […]