STAR :: Social and Technological Action Research Group

Congratulations to Lucas Kam for being awarded the UCI undergraduate award of “Outstanding Contribution to Research”. Kam has done research with a variety of graduate students, including working Jed Brubaker and his social media and identity projects and Lynn Dombrowski and her backyard bounty project. Again, congratulations to Lucas Kam!

STAR group did really well on the NSF front this year. First year PhD students Meg Cramer and Jed Brubaker won a fellowship and an honorable mention, respectively. STAR alumna, currently a PhD student at CMU, Gabi Marcu was also a winner. More on the fellowship program can be found at: http://www.nsfgrfp.org/ The National Science [...]

Congratulations to Gabriela Marcu who was awarded a scholarship from Microsoft. From the Microsoft Research website: The Microsoft Research Graduate Women’s Scholarship is a one-year scholarship program for outstanding women graduate students and is designed to help increase the number of women pursuing a PhD. This program supports women in the second year of their [...]

Congratulations to Sen Hirano who recently won a scholarship from the United Agribusiness League & United Agricultural Benefit Trust Scholarship Program.

At the Celebration of Teaching, Gillian Hayes was recognized for “Pedagogical Innovation” for transforming an Informatics course into one more focused on service learning. The focus of this award on Civic Engagement reflects a wider push on campus to focus on getting out in the community and using what we know and do to help [...]

Congratulations to Gabriela Marcu who was selected for Honorable Mention in the highly competitive CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Competition.

Silvia and Gabi won the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship.