Christin Hamilton successfully defended her her dissertation proposal on December 15, 2009.

 

Wanda Moses successfully defended her Masters thesis on August 10, 20099.

 

Yueqin Lin successfully defended her Master project on August 6, 2009.

 

Ken Rouse successfully defended his dissertation on July 21, 2009.

 

Wanda Eugene successfully defended her dissertation proposal on July 21, 2009.

 

Jerome McClendon successfully defended his Masters thesis on July 20, 2009.

 

Josh Stephens successfully defended his Masters project on June 12, 2009.

 

Gregory Rogers successfully defended his Masters thesis on May 4, 2009.

 

E. Vincent Cross, II successfully defended his dissertation on April 24, 2009.

 

Caio Soares successfully defended his Masters defense on April 11, 2009.

 

Idongesit Mkpong-Ruffin successfully defended her dissertation on December 5, 2008.

 

Yolanda McMillian successfully defended her dissertation proposal on August 1, 2008.

 

Jamey White successfully defended his Masters defense on July 16, 2008.

 

David Thornton successfully defended his dissertation on July 14, 2008.

 

Jamey White has accepted a Systems Analyst/VUI Designer position with Convergys.

 

Dr. Cheryl Swanier has accepted an Associate Professor tenure-track faculty position at Fort Valley State University in the Computer Science Department.

 

Philicity Williams successfully defended her Masters thesis and her dissertation proposal defense on April 9, 2008.

 

Priyanka Gupta has accepted a Human Factors Specialists position with HumanCentric in Chicago, IL.

 

Jamey White was the Most Creative / Innovative application winner of the Second Annual AVIOS Speech Application Contest.

 

Wanda Eugene won the 2008 Golden Torch Award as the Mike Shinn Distinguished Member of the Year - Female. The award recognizes outstanding academic achievements in the fields of engineering and science and proven dedication to the NSBE mission.

 

Anjeli Singh was selected to attend the 2008 Google Workshop for Women Engineers.

 

Ken Rouse successfully passed his dissertation proposal defense on February 8, 2008.

 

Christin Hamilton passed the Doctoral Qualifying Exam on November 26, 2007.

 

Vince Cross successfully defended his dissertation proposal on November 14, 2007.

 

David Thornton successfully defended his dissertation proposal on Auigust 20, 2007.

 

Caio Soares was selected as a 2007-2008 Hispanic College Fund Google Scholarship recipient.

 

Prime III VoComp Team wins Best Usability Metric and Best Human Factors on July 18, 2007.

 

Idongesit Mkpong-Ruffin successfully defended her dissertation proposal defense on July 5, 2007.

 

Auburn University Electronic Voting Team Invited to International Voting Competition.

 

Wanda Eugene and her co-authors' paper "MINORITY RETENTION AND SUCCESS IN ENGINEERING: DIVERSIFYING THE PIPELINE THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL CAPITAL" has been chosen to receive the 2007 GSD Best Paper Award at the ASEE 2007 Conference.

 

Kristie Goss was promoted to Senior VUI Designer at Convergys.

 

Jennifer Garmon successfully defended her Masters project defense on May 7, 2007.

 

Andrea Williams successfully defended her Masters thesis on April 17, 2007.

 

Ashley Wachs successfully defended her Masters thesis on April 6, 2007.

 

Kathryn Nobles successfully defended her Masters thesis on April 5, 2007.

 

Derek Anderson successfully defended his Masters project defense on April 5, 2007.

 

Kinnis Gosha successfully defended his Masters thesis on April 2, 2007.

 

Yolanda McMillian, Jamey White and Ken Rouse won 1st Runner Up and Best-of-Class winner of the 1st Annual AVIOS Speech Application Contest!

 

Christin Hamilton successfully defended her Masters project defense on December 6, 2006.

 

David Thornton passed the Doctoral Qualifying Exam on November 21, 2006.

 

Priyanka Gupta successfully defended her Dissertation Proposal on November 14, 2006.

 

Dale-Marie Wilson successfully defended her Dissertation on July 12, 2006.

 

Alexandria Williams successfully defended her Masters thesis on June 30, 2006.

 

Chao Wang successfully defended his Masters thesis on June 9, 2006.

 

Wanda Eugene has received an internship with the NSF Funded Life Center at the University of Washington.

 

Wanda Eugene won the Outstanding Project Award at George Mason University for her Masters project.

 

Sanjith David successfully defended his Masters project defense on May 12, 2006.

 

Priyanka Gupta will be doing an internship with PriceWaterHouseCoopers.

 

Sangeeta Garhyan has been admitted into the MS Bioinformatics program at IUPUI.

 

Sanjith David accepted a job with Capegemini as a Systems Analyst in Atlanta, Georgia.

 

Philicity Williams, Kennard Love, Priyanka Gupta and Idongesit Mkpong-Ruffin passed the Doctoral Qualifying Exam.

 

Sherita Andrews won Honorable Mention for the 2006 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award.

 

Shelby Darnell successfully defended his Master project defense on December 5, 2005.

 

Dale-Marie Wilson successfully defended her dissertation proposal defense on July 13, 2005.

 

Billy T. Baker successfully defended his Masters project on July 13, 2005.

 

Philicity Williams has been awarded a Southern Region Educational Board Fellowship.

 

Vince Cross won a Samuel Ginn College of Engineering Vodafone Fellowship.

 

Michele Williams has accepted a position at Convergys as a Voice User Interface Designer.

 

Idongesit Mkpong-Ruffin has been selected to attend the Faculty Horizons Workshop at UMBC.

 

Priyanka Gupta and Yolanda McMillian have been accepted into the Preparing Future Faculty Program at Auburn University.

 

Yolanda McMillian, Vince Cross and Ken Rouse passed the Doctoral Qualifying Exam.

 

Vince Cross won an Outstanding Minority Graduate Student Award from the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering and Andre Murphy received special recognition as an Outstanding Minority Graduate Student.

 

Michele Williams and Andre Murphy successfully defended their Master projects on April 8, 2005.

 

Yolanda McMillian won a scholarship to attend the 10th International Conference on User Modeling, UM 2005

 

Dale-Marie Wilson and Vince Cross won scholarships to present their research at the Arizona State University Graduate Education Research Forum.

 

Vince Cross won third place in his session in the AU Graduate Student Council Research Forum. Congratulations Vince!

 

Vince Cross and Michele Williams have been accepted to present at the AU Graduate Student Council Research Forum on March 10, 2005.

 

Vince Cross accepts a summer internship at the Naval Research Labs

 

Chao Wang accepts a GRA Position in The Program for Students with Disabilities.

 

Yolanda McMillian was accepted into the 2005 CRA Grad Cohort Program

 

E. Vincent Cross, II successfully defended his Master project on January 14, 2005

 

Nicholas J. Parks successfully defended his Master project on November 29, 2004

 

Tongmin Shen successfully defended her Masters thesis on October 5, 2004

 

Kristie Goss joins Convergys Speech Solutions Team as Senior Associate