Laura Vilines, a junior in Arts & Sciences, has been awarded the 2005 Stern Summer Service Scholarship. The $3,000 annual scholarship was established in 2000 to provide interested students with the means to pursue creative and meaningful activities geared toward finding solutions to society’s needs. The scholarship provides funding for an Arts & Sciences student to pursue innovative work in the social service sector during the summer. The funding can be used at the recipient’s discretion to cover costs of the project, cost-of-living expenses and/or in lieu of summer earnings. …
Chenyang Lu, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science and engineering, has received a two-year, $6,000 grant from the Lockheed Martin Business Unit: Maritime Systems & Sensors for research titled “Adaptive Resource Control for Certifiable Systems.”