present at the State GIS conference in September. The project was funded by a grant from the Dept. of Defense through EKU CRAFT (Center for Renewable and Alternative Fuel Technology)

The Whitney Young School of Honors & Liberal Studies Fall Liberal Studies Lectures Series September 26 - Dr. April Fallon, “Modernist Faiteur: The Influence of Paris on E. E. Cummings” October 1 - Dr. Max Brown, “A Stringy Review of the 'Elements'”; October 31 – Mr. Mark Tollefsen, “Forte/Piano: Piano Music during Times of War and Peace”; November 14 - Dr. Cynthia Shelton, “Re-reading Lysistrata in the Context of the Liberian Civil Wars: Women and Peacemaking in the 21st Century.” All lectures are in Carver Hall 115 3:00-4:00 PM.

College of Business and Computer Science

Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, L. Urbina and T. Webster, "Requirements Engineering for Scientific Application Software in Multicultural Environment", Porto Alegre, Brazil Aug-27th-Aug. 30th, Presented at the International Conference on Global Software Engineering, 2012.

Ashok Kumar, Professor and PI; Dr. Sid Bhattacharyya, Associate Professor and Co-PI; and a former Graduate student Mr. Patrick Garrity and Co-PI, are working on a grant from Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation and a project for developing wireless technology to monitor closed containers. Two graduate assistants are working on the research project under their supervision.

Chi Shen, Participated in two KY NSF EPSCoR proposals and presentations for KY EPSCoR AAAS panel interviews

• Chi Shen, Advised two graduate students for their research thesis:
• a.Building a database system for an application in environmental science. The purpose of this project is to consolidate the entire archive of periodic reports into a single database application. This work is collaborated with Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet.
• b.A study in Storage Area Network (SAN) and High Availability. This work will be discussing the industry leading vendors NetApp and IBM proving SAN solutions and how they implement SAN technologies with all its techniques to provide highly available running systems and businesses and faster recovery in case of disaster.
• Chi Shen, Initiated an undergraduate research activity with a UK professor. This research is funded through NSF RUA program at UK. One student from Computer Science was selected.

Chi Shen, Collaborated with a professor at UofL in a proposal to NSF. The proposal will support one or two undergraduates at KSU for a summer internship. The proposal was