Genevieve Brassard, English, has been named as the new book review editor for The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945. See the journal at http://spacebetweenjournal.org/.

Tammy VanDeGrift, engineering, and computer science students Christine Chen and Sara Perkins, attended the NW Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges on October 7-8. VanDeGrift presented a paper titled “Art in Theory of Computation” and sat on a panel, “Computer Science Program Evaluation and Curriculum Assessment.” The paper and panel summary are published in The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, vol 32, number 1. The students presented research projects through posters and elevator pitches at the conference’s student research competition. Perkins won first place for her computational biology research project on the “Effect of NIK on T cells of Mice”, research conducted with VanDeGrift in spring 2016. Chen won third place for her security research project “Detecting Infrastructure Anomalies via Metadata Streams” with Micro Systems Engineering Inc.

Aziz Inan, engineering, had his article, “Some Leland Jr. Math Brainteasers,” published in 125 Stanford Stories at this link. Inan earned his MS at Stanford in 1980, and his Ph.D. in 1983. Stanford University is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year.