School of Science Happenings

Aquatic Information? Monmouth University created MARCO, an app for that! Karl Vilacoba, communications director, explains the uses of ocean data portal software created through the Urban Coast Institute at Monmouth University and its collaborators. The portal shows fishing grounds, marine life habitats, local boat ramps, “water trails” and other interesting aquatic information. The Mid-Atlantic Ocean…

This February, several Computer Science students, accompanied by CSSE Department Chair, Professor Ling Zheng, attended the WECode Conference in Cambridge Massachusetts. WECode (Women Engineers Code) is an annual event organized by undergraduate women at Harvard University. This conference, an initiative of Harvard Women in CS (harvardwics.com), is the largest student-run Women in Computer Science conference…

The Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering held their annual High School Hawk Hack on Friday, Feb. 7. Fifty students from ten New Jersey high schools participated. The event is run by the student-led club of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers/ Association for Computing Machinery, (IEEE/ACM) and Professor Rolf Kamp, who is…

CSSE students Omar Ahmed and Andrew Catapano were recently awarded the 2024 Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) Scholarship Award. They were two of only 20 students selected nationwide for this award. Omar is a senior CS student actively involved on campus, serving as a peer mentor for the School of Science, a mathematics tutor, and a…

Weihao Qu, Ph.D. was awarded a $174,999 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund his research project titled “Precise Formal Verification of General Relational Quantitative Properties with Mutable Arrays.” His research focuses on enhancing the security, efficiency, and reliability of software systems through advanced program analysis techniques. By addressing critical gaps in how…

Three professors receive equity and inclusion teaching awards At the November School of Science faculty meeting Drs. Torrey Gallagher, Weihao Qu and Laura Turner received awards for their innovations in teaching that promote equity and inclusion. The awards were made in two categories innovations to Assessment and for innovations involving the entire syllabus. Innovations that…