DATE: May 05, 2009

CONTACT: Mark Smotherman, 864-656-5878
mark@clemson.edu

WRITER: Jessica Lance, 864-656-2061
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Canton resident recognized by Clemson’s School of Computing

CLEMSON, S.C. – Clemson University student Adam Whitley of Canton, a graduate student in computer science, received the Clemson School of Computing Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award.

The award is given to a graduate teaching assistant who has been recognized by faculty, students and fellow graduate teaching assistants as exemplary in undergraduate teaching.

This year, eight School of Computing awards were given to 11 students. The awards include outstanding sophomore, outstanding junior, outstanding senior, faculty special recognition, outstanding graduate teaching assistant, outstanding computer science M.S. student, outstanding computer science Ph.D. student and outstanding graduate student researcher.

The Undergraduate Affairs Committee nominates undergraduate students for the awards based on GPA and credit hours completed in the School of Computing. Sophomores and juniors can be in either the B.S. in computer science program, the B.A. in computer science program or the B.S. in computer information systems program. Graduate students are nominated for the graduate level awards by faculty in the school of computing.