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| Written by Ali Mustansir, Contributor to The Shorthorn | ||||
| Thursday, 26 March 2009 08:51 PM | ||||
 Nabila Rahman, computer science engineering graduate, gives a presentation on Low Cost Jamming Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks Thursday in the University Center Concho Room. Rahman and other students presented abstracts chosen through a competition for the Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students. (The Shorthorn: Monica Lopez) Every year, the university hosts the Annual Celebration of Excellence by Students. Participants give oral or poster presentations that must explain the topic to a general and well-educated audience, who are not experts in that field. Biology, psychology, engineering, linguistics and, for the first time, music were among the topics discussed by students, according to architecture assistant professor Douglas Klahr. Faculty members also received recognition for their contributions. Klahr is a member of the ACES Steering Committee. He said he is happy to see sustainablity and the arts included this year. “Some people think ACES is just for science and engineers because they tend to dominate,” he said. “Every year more nonscience and engineering students come in.” Klahr said he was approached a few weeks ago to add an award for sustainability and didn’t have time to solicit projects specifically for it. He selected 19 out of the 141 participants who had direct or indirect relations to sustainability. Music education sophomore Jesus Martinez was the first student to give a musical presentation, for which he earned honorable mention in the Undergraduate Afternoon category. He presented music as an expression of human emotion and based two of his compositions on the cardinal sins wrath and sloth. Martinez spoke about composing while marimba players performed his pieces. “Honestly, I didn’t intend on winning,” he said, “I told my performers it was about showing the audience a different musical perspective. Music is a completely different outlook. It is a language of it’s own.” The ACES Steering Committee and the Office of Graduate Study plan and host the celebration every year, said Philip Cohen, Graduate School dean and Academic Affairs vice provost. The event used to be two separate underfunded symposiums for graduate and undergraduate students but was combined to build it up, he said. Cohen said ACES improves each year and can still get better. He said the attendance and funding was better than previous ACES. “We are delighted ACES went so well and are looking forward to next year,” he said. Students were not the only ones to receive awards. Electrical engineering professor Venkat Devarajan won the first Graduate Dean’s Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring, which will be presented in years to come, Cohen said. Alumni and students nominated him for the award. Views: 1040 | E-mail
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