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National Science Foundation: Graduate Research Fellowship Program
The Division of Graduate Education and the Office of International Science and Engineering announce a new international research opportunity, available as a Supplemental Award, for NSF Graduate Research Fellows (GRFs) to enable Fellows to gain international research experience and establish collaborations with counterparts at Norwegian or Finnish research institutions.
Ph.D. in IT Final Defense Denise Reeves
Candidate: Denise Reeves
Dissertation Director: Prof. Edward Wegman
Title: Properly Specified Functional Mappings and Support Vector Learning Machines

Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 10:00am – 12:00pm The Engineering Bldg. Room 4801
Ph.D. in Statistics Final defense for Zorayr Manukyan
Candidate: Zorayr Manukyan
Dissertation Director: Prof. William F. Rosenberger
Title: Sequential Designs for Estimating Toxicity and Efficacy in a Dose-Response Setting

Tuesday, May 26, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, Johnson Center, 3rd floor, Room B
Ph.D. in IT Final Defense Malak Al-Nory
Ph.D. in Information Technology
Candidate: Malak Al-Nory
Dissertation Director: Dr. Alex Brodsky
Title: Service Composition Framework to Unify Simulation and Optimization in Supply Chains

Thursday, April 30th at 1:00 pm in The Engineering Bldg., 4th Floor, Room 4201
PhD in Information Technology Final Defense Barry Liner
Candidate: Barry Liner
Dissertation Director: Dr. Sharon deMonsabert
Title: Goal Programming For Sustainability in Total Water Management
Thursday, April 30th at 9:30 am in The Engineering Bldg., 4th Floor, Room 4801
2009 Outstanding Graduate Student Award Recipients
The following graduate students received the school's 2009 Outstanding Graduate Student Award:

- Dr. Mark Hartong, PhD in Information Technology, 2009.
- Mr. Alireza Babaei, PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Jessica Paris, MS student in Civil and Infrastructure Engineering.

The awards were presented at the school's Annual Award Gala on April 24, 2009, and were sponsored by Metro Aviation, Lockheed Martin MS2 Undersea Systems, and Aptis, respectively.
SEOR ranked no. 31 by US News and World Report: Best Engineering Schools in Industrial & Manufacturing.
Through the efforts and competence of our Systems Engineering and Operations Research (SEOR) Department, our school is tied at position 31 (with Clemson, OSU, University of Oklahoma, and University of Minnesota) in the list of US News and World Report's Best Engineering Schools in the specialty of Industrial & Manufacturing.

Congratulations on a job well done!
Ph.D. in Information Technology Final Defense Hadi Rezazad

Candidate: Hadi Rezazad
Dissertation Director: Dr. Edward Wegman
Title: Enhancement of Network Robustness and Efficiency through Evolutionary Computing, Statistical Computation and Social Network Analysis

Tuesday, April 28th at 3:00 pm in The Engineering Bldg., Dean's Conference Room, 5th Floor, Room 5117
Laurie McQuillian Memorial Graduate Research Fellowship in Information Security & Assurance
The Center for Secure Information Systems (CSIS) announces this fellowship that is available for US citizens who are graduate students in the following degree programs: Master of Science in Information Security & Assurance and PhD in Information Technology with concentration in Information Security & Assurance.

Click here for more information.
Ph.D. in Statistical Science Final defense for Tigran Markaryan
Candidate: Tigran Markaryan
Dissertation Director: Dr. William F. Rosenberger
Title: Exact Distributional Properties of Efron's Biased Coin Design with Applications to Clinical Trials

Tuesday, April 7th at 10:30 AM – Noon in the Johnson Center on the 3rd floor Meeting Room B.

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