Star receives Best Paper Award at Ubicomp 2013 for paper on Nonprofits.
Congratulations to STAR grad students Lynn Dombrowski, Jed Brubaker, Sen Hirano and STAR and LUCI faculty Melissa Mazmanian and Gillian R. Hayes on receiving a best paper award at UBICOMP 2013! Paper Title and Abstract: It takes a network to get dinner: designing location-based systems to address local food needs Abstract: Based on an 18-month […]
Brubaker named a recipient of the National ARCS Foundation Fellowship.
Jed was just named the recipient of the National ARCS Foundation Fellowship! About the fellowship: The National ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) Foundation, Inc., is a unique, nonprofit, national volunteer organization of women dedicated to providing scholarships to academically outstanding U.S. citizens studying to complete their degrees in science, medicine and engineering, thereby contributing […]
Jed’s work highlighted in the Scientific American!
Jed’s work was featured in an article from the Scientific American, called “How to manage your digital afterlife.” Many people want to maintain their online privacy. In addition, preserving the Facebook page of a dead person could be considered a touch macabre. Yet as with your old physical photos and letters, creations by you in […]
New University highlights Gillian and her colleague’s autism work!
The New University highlights the work of Gillian and her colleagues: Hayes and her tech students teach families with children with autism how to use iPad apps that improve communication, augmentative and social skills. More specified apps help children with autism exercise healthy hygiene, time management and social interaction. Families use iPads donated to the […]
Gillian’s autism work featured in the UCI magazine!
Gillian’s work was recently highlighted in the UCI magazine! “Mobile apps have the potential to address a wide range of issues related to autism,” Hayes says, “from providing a voice for those who can’t speak to increasing independent living and employment skills.” Link to full article
Congratulations to Monica Tentori on her MSR Fellowship!
Star would like to congratulate Monica Tentori at Mexico’s Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education on her prestigious Microsoft Faculty Fellowship! From the announcement: The seven 2013 Faculty Fellows were selected from four regions: (1) Latin America and the Caribbean; (2) Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; (3) the United States and Canada; and […]
Congratulations to Lynn Dombrowski on her Advancement!
Congratulations to Lynn Dombrowski on advancing to Ph.D. candidacy on May 15, 2013. Lynn presented her work the role of intermediaries in enabling access to e-Government services related to the use of government nutrition assistance programs. Lynn’s committee was comprised of Drs. Gillian Hayes, Melissa Mazmanian, Paul Dourish, Geoffrey Bowker, Bill Tomlinson, and Michael Montoya. Congratulations!
Ulgado selected as a Honorable Mention for CRA’s Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award 2013!
We are pleased to announce that Rachel Ulgado has been selected as an Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association’s Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award (Female) 2013! A list of the other winners, runners-up, finalists, and honorable mentions will appear on www.cra.org. Ulgado is a recent STAR alumni who will be attending the University of Washington […]
Brubaker selected as a recipient of the Academic Senate Council’s award for Most Promising Future Faculty Members
I am pleased to announce that Jed Brubaker was selected as a recipient by the Academic Senate Council’s award for Most Promising Future Faculty Member. This award in Excellence in Undergraduate Education was presented at the 20th Annual Celebration of Teaching, held on Friday, April 12, 2013. According to the Academic Senate Council: “The recipients […]
Congratulations to Dr. Hayes!
The STAR students would like to congratulate Dr. Gillian Hayes on earning tenure! Best, Jed, Lynn, Sen, Kerri, and the other students of STAR.