Congratulations to Dr. Fortune Mhlanga (professor of computer science) and Dr. Phil Vardiman (assistant professor of management sciences) for winning the 2009 Meritorious Paper Award at the Conference on Information Systems Applied Research (CONISAR) in Washington, D.C.! Their paper entitled "Towards an Abstract Model for Academia and Information Technology Sector Collaborative Partnerships: Responding to the 'West Texas Coalition for Innovation and Commercialization' Initiative" will be published in March 2010 in the Journal of Information Systems Applied Research. The professors were also inducted into the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP).
ACU hosts IBM-sponsored programming contest
Students from all over the world come to ACU to pursue higher education in computer-related technology fields. From Macao to Madagascar and all parts in between, you’ll find classmates and fellow students that are culturally diverse, yet who communicate in the common language of computing. You might be tempted to think such individuals are totally focused on machines, wires, and computer code, but nothing could be further from the truth. While there is indeed a special bond among them, our students join social clubs, participate in intramurals, gather for daily chapel, and engage in a myriad of other activities just like most ACU students. Graduates leave here with life-long friendships molded from daily interaction in classrooms, libraries, and laboratories, as well as a remarkable array of shared life experiences.
