Success Stories

National and International Awards 11 students from SERRI university partners were winners in the abstract competition and were selected to compete among a field of more than 70 students in the 2009 DHS Student Day Poster Competition (March 2009). Students from Jackson State University, Mississippi State University, University of Mississippi, and University of Houston Compete in 2009 DHS University Programs Poster Competition
Students at Mississippi State University working on a SERRI funded project (Rapid Detection of Agriterrorism via Remote Sensing) won top honors in two international competitions among 2000 entries at the 2008 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) held in Boston, MA in July 2008.
MSU Students Win Data Fusion Contest at the 2008 IEEE IGARSS	MSU Student Wins 1st Place in IEEE IGARSS International Student Paper Contest
Student at University of Southern Mississippi working on a SERRI funded project (Real-Time Detection of Chemicals and Biological Pathogens in Fluids) earned a student scholarship award for presentation at the Chemical and Biological Defense Physical Science and Technology Conference to be held in New Orleans, LA in November 2008. A paper by researchers at the University of Tennessee working on a SERRI funded research project (Data-Sharing Middleware for Information Dissemination among Heterogeneous Sources) was accepted by the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing. The paper was one of 33 papers accepted from a field of 125 received from 22 countries. Impact on Production of Stem Degrees (As of End of August 2009) 32 Bachelors Degrees (16 Completed + 16 in the Pipeline) 46 Masters Degrees (11 Completed + 35 in the Pipeline) 30 Doctoral Degrees (4 Completed + 26 in the Pipeline) 8 Active Post-Doc Assignments

 

2009 Sponsored Internships & Faculty Research at ORNL Sponsored 18 Students & 2 Faculty across 5 ORNL Divisions  8 Students - Comp. Sciences & Engineering Division 1 Student - Energy & Transportation Science Division 1 Student - Material Science and Technology Division 6 Students - Measurement Science & Systems Eng. 2 Students - National Security Directorate 2 Faculty - Measurement Science & Systems Eng. Interns were participants in DOE/ORAU FaST, HERE, SULI, CCI, Co-Op Programs and the DHS STEM Program Sponsoring JSU Student for One-Year Assignment in NSD in support of the ORNL-JSU Mentor Protégé Agreement

2009 Summer Interns in the Comp. Sciences & Engineering Division Working on the Sensorpedia Project

2008 Sponsored Internships & Faculty Research at ORNL Sponsored 8 Students & 2 Faculty across 3 ORNL Divisions  2 Students + 1 Faculty - Biosciences Division 4 Students + 2 Faculty = MSSE Division 2 Students  - National Security Division Interns were participants in DOE/ORAU FaST and HERE Programs and the DHS STEM Program Sponsoring JSU Student for One-Year Assignment in Biosciences Division in support to the ORNL-JSU Mentor Protégé Agreement.

JSU Students Presenting Results of ORNL 2008 Summer Internship