Posted by Bernadette on January 19, 2024
Congratulations Bianca Trinkenreich for receiving the 2024 ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Dissertation Award for the work she performed during her PhD here at SICCS!
Now at Oregon State University, Bianca Trinkenreich received the award for her Ph.D. thesis “Understanding and Supporting Women’s Participation in Open Source Software” (Northern Arizona University, advised by Igor Steinmacher and Marco Aurelio Gerosa).
Posted by admin on July 6, 2022
Mathematical modeling—which combines math, statistics, computing and data—is a critical tool for public health professionals, who use it to study how diseases spread, predict the future course of outbreaks and evaluate strategies for controlling epidemics. Assistant professor Joe Mihaljevic of Northern Arizona University’s School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS) has been working with public health partners across the state and the country to share computer models mapping the spread of the coronavirus. Mihaljevic, a disease ecologist who applies… Read more
Posted by admin on April 5, 2022
Jasmine Mendez and Adam Wilson received the prestigious Hooper Undergraduate Research Award (HURA) for their project “The Selfish Sequences in Squamate Genomes: Evolutionary Dynamics of CR1 and LINE-1 non-LTR Retrotransposons.”
Posted by on December 9, 2021
The tiny cosmos of organisms living on a streamer of algae in a river—the algal microbiome—could help scientists learn what turns an environment from healthy to toxic and back again. A multidisciplinary team led by Northern Arizona University has won $3 million from the National Science Foundation to translate the codex contained in the microbiome of common algae into computer algorithms that can predict a wide range of microbial interactions. Read more.
Posted by on October 19, 2021
Morgan Vigil-Hayes’ ACM CSCW paper on co-designing mobile health systems to be culturally relevant to Native American youth received a Best Paper Award as well as a Recognition for Contributions to Diversity and Inclusion. The ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing is the premier venue for research in the design and use of technologies that affect groups, organizations, communities, and networks. A full list of papers that received recognitions can be found here.
This award-winning paper included… Read more
Posted by on August 23, 2021
The bachelor’s of science in informatics (BSI), a degree option in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS) has recently been ranked by Bachelors Degree Center as one of the best programs in the nation. This ranking is based on factors such as cost, reputation, and student outcomes. The BSI program will allow students to integrate cutting-edge tools and skills from data analytics, data science, computer science, statistical analysis and modeling with fundamental knowledge from… Read more