Junior Erin McManus, a computer science and mathematics major, has been named a finalist in the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award competition for 2011. McManus conducted research in the summer at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (MPI) in Tuebingen, Germany. She ran an experiment on the effects of both self and third-person avatars on human performance in virtual environments on distance estimation, object interaction and complex locomotion tasks.
More>>Daniel M. Fleetwood, Olin H. Landreth Professor of Engineering and chair
of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department, and
Ronald D. Schrimpf, Orrin Henry Ingram Professor of Engineering and
director of the Institute for Space and Defense Electronics at
Vanderbilt University, each have been named an Honored Professor of the
Shanghai Institute for Microsystem and Information Technology, which is
part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.