Staff Activities

Changes, Awards, Recognition, Publications, etc.

Baczewski and Herrington selected to receive Provost's Award

The Evaluation of Teaching Committee that included Dr. Philip Baczewski, Director of  Academic Computing and User Services, and Dr. Richard Herrington, ACUS Research and Statistical Support Services Consultant, as members, was selected to receive the Provost's Award for Extraordinary Professional Service to the University of North Texas. Each committee member will be awarded a framed certificate and a gift certificate at the Provost's Spring Meeting with the faculty on April 16. The committee provided recommendations to the provost regarding the implementation of a University-wide student evaluation of teacher effectiveness.

Presentations, performances

Dr. Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner, Assistant Director - Academic Computing and User Services, had her two pieces, EvenMoreduSt and Spellbound presented in concert at the American Society for Cybernetics conference at Evergreen State University in Olympia, Washington. Hinkle-Turner also gave a paper, “Scattering Dust.” Hinkle-Turner’s piece, EvenMoreduSt, will be presented Thursday April 16 at the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States annual conference, held this year at the Sweetwater Sound facility in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Dr. Richard Anderson,  Information Security Coordinator and Patrick McLeod, Research and Statistical Support Services Consultant, presented papers at the 2009 meeting of the Document Academy in Madison, WI on March 29, 2009. Anderson's paper was titled "A Quantitative Model of Ambiguity." If that title intrigues you, you can see an abstract here.

McLeod's paper is titled "Comparative Assessment and Identification of Image Sources" and was co-authored with Melody McCotter. According to McLeod, "The paper evaluated different computational methods for assessing and discriminating between different digital images generated with different devices of a common subject. The goal was to identify methods that would allow for discrimination between the devices generating the images from pixel-level data in the images themselves without using the EXIF metadata attached to the images. The methods examined were RGB histograms, luminance measures, Canny edge detection and Hough transformations."

Congratulations are in order for:

• Richard Sanzone, has been promoted to User Services Manager, Academic Computing and User Services. See the Campus Computing News article in this issue of Benchmarks Online for further details about this new position as well as Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner's new position that was announced last month.

Soaring Eagles

The following people were recognized as Soaring Eagles in the April/May issue of HR Connections:

• Jonathan Mac Edwards, Academic Computing and User Services.
• Jason Gutierrez, Messaging.
• Tracy Hansen, Imaging.
• Jason Myre, Messaging.
• Bahram Paiani, Messaging.
• Ginny Richards, EIS Tools Support.
• Richard Sanzone, Academic Computing and User Services.
• Scott Seymour, Imaging.
• Mike Shirley, Student Records Systems Development.
• Craig Terrell, OS & Directory Services.
• Larry Vick, Telecommunications.
• Yancey Yeargan, OS & Directory Services.

Outstanding Staff

Look who was honored at the President's Sack Lunch in February!

Employees recognized for years of service to UNT

These CITC employees were recognized in InHouse recently:

30 years of service  -- Claudia Lynch, Computer Systems Manager, Academic Computing and User Services.

10 years of service -- Stuart Christian, Communications Manager, Data Communications and  Jason Gutierrez, Computer Systems Manager, Enterprise Systems Technical Services.

Fun Fact Winners

CITC staff continue to bring home the prizes. Congratulations to Troy Price, Programmer Analyst, Constituent Relationship Management Development Systems (AIS), He was a winner in last week's InHouse prizes.
 

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