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November 22, 2004

Elizabeth Latronico

Receiving a fellowship to study engineering is an honor that many eager graduate students hope to achieve once in their career. But for ECE Ph.D. candidate Beth Latronico, who earned her M.S. here in 2002, the good news has come five times over.

November 17, 2004

ECE Graduate Student Leaders Elected

ECE's Engineering Graduate Student Organization (EGO) has elected new officers for the upcoming year with Nick Zamora as president, Tudor Dumitras as vice president, Adam Pennington as treasurer, and Srinivas Chellappa as secretary. The students will take their posts in the spring.

November 1, 2004

Diana Henderson

Integrated M.S./B.S. degree student Diana Henderson drums up accolades as the winner of the Carnegie Mellon Women's Association (CMWA) scholarship and a musician whose group won the school's battle of the bands and a spot on TV. She earned her B.S. in ECE and Biomedical Engineering (BME), a minor in jazz performance and is an Andrew Carnegie Society (ACS) and a National Society for Black Engineers (NSBE) Fulfilling the Legacy scholar. A drummer in the campus jazz ensemble, Diana also volunteers as a sexual assault advisor and writes for The Carnegie Pulse. Through internships for Nortel Networks, Hewlett Packard, and IBM, she learned that "having a graduate degree can place you in a position to work on projects that are critical to the company's bottom line early in your career."

October 26, 2004

Ginger Perng

After a highly competitive application process ECE graduate student Ginger Perng was selected for a 2004-2005 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship which funds three years of study, including a stipend. She was one of 1,020 winners chosen out of 8,939 applicants in science, mathematics, and engineering. Take an inside look at this award winner’s story.

September 28, 2004

Shirlene Lim: Interns Abroad

ECE and BME senior Shirlene Lim decided to go off campus this summer for her internship. Way off campus. She worked for two months in Finland in the Helsinki University of Technology's (HUT) Biomedical Image Processing Group through the International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience (IAESTE). What was it like? Let's hear all about her adventures.