April 2008

The 2008 Pi Mu Epsilon induction ceremony was held on Friday April 25.
The ceremony was followed by a talk by Dr. Stephen B. Maurer,
Professor of Mathematics at Swarthmore College.
April 2008

Six graduating seniors and three graduate students presented their work at Sigma Xi Symposium
and the CSC Research Colloquium.
March 2008

On the evening of Wednesday March 12, 2008 the Department hosted
its Fourth Induction ceremony for the Lambda Chapter of Upsilon Pi
Epsilon Computer Science Honor Society at Saint Joseph's University.
February 2008
The Department gratefully acknowledges Mr. Tom Foley's fifty years of service at SJU. We are truly honored
to have our very own Golden Hawk of 2008!
February 2008

Computer Science students Jason Baker, Mallory Cosfol and Scott Hine
beautifully hand-painted two wall murals in the Department's main wing.
January 2008

Patrick Stump, a Senior Clinical Data Scientist at GlaxoSmithKline, gave an informative talk entitled "Creating a New Drug -- Where Programming and Science Merge."
December 2007

The Department's Holidays Party had an international flavor this year with students and faculty
sharing foods from different parts of the world.
December 2007

Dr. Deborah Lurie (left) and Dr. Sylvia Forman (middle) received a Service Merit Award and a Teaching Merit Award, respectively,
for their outstanding contributions to the University and the Department. Congratulations to them both!
November 2007

Saint Joseph's University, Nanjing University and Jiangsu Province in China establish a new academic
partnership and exchange program.
November 2007

The UPE/ACM Chapter hosted a celebration of the 55th anniversary of MANIAC, an early computer built based on the von Neumann architecture of the IAS.
October 2007

Two teams of SJU Computer Science and Mathematics students participated in the ACM national competition at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, PA.
October 2007

A presentation was given on Computer Security by an alum, Glenn Brunette, who is a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems.
October 2007

Students, alumni, and faculty gathered for the 2007 MACS Career Night.
September 2007

Rick Lichtenfield and Debbie Carabini, representatives from the Computer Sciences Corporation, held
an employment information session for the undergraduate computer science majors.