{"id":384,"date":"2015-02-05T10:30:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T15:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/?p=384"},"modified":"2015-02-05T10:30:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T15:30:09","slug":"sharp-receives-2015-national-cra-undergraduate-research-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/2015\/02\/05\/sharp-receives-2015-national-cra-undergraduate-research-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharp receives 2015 National CRA Undergraduate Research Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Sharp, CS undergraduate student, achieved the level of Finalist in the prestigious <strong><em>2015 National Computing Research Association Undergraduate Research Award <\/em><\/strong>competition (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cra.org\/awards\/undergrad-current\/\">http:\/\/www.cra.org\/awards\/undergrad-current<\/a>\/). His faculty research mentors are Drs. T.M. Murali (<a href=\"https:\/\/bioinformatics.cs.vt.edu\/~murali\/\">https:\/\/bioinformatics.cs.vt.edu\/~murali\/<\/a>) and Shane Ross (ESM).<\/p>\n<p>The CRA annual undergrad research competition distinguishes candidates by gender and by the type of their home department: non-Ph.D.-granting vs Ph.D.-granting.\u00a0 Nick was in the competition in the male, Ph.D.-granting department group.\u00a0 There were one Winner, one Runner-up and four Finalists selected in this category, as well as seven Honorable Mentions.\u00a0 The home universities for the top six researchers included: University of Washington, Seattle; Columbia; UNC, Chapel Hill; Mississippi State; Texas A&amp;M, and Virginia Tech. The Department is proud of all of its winners in this competition; between 2010 and 2015 we have had four Honorable Mentions and two Finalists!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Sharp, CS undergraduate student, achieved the level of Finalist in the prestigious 2015 National Computing Research Association Undergraduate Research Award competition (http:\/\/www.cra.org\/awards\/undergrad-current\/). His faculty research mentors are Drs. T.M. Murali (https:\/\/bioinformatics.cs.vt.edu\/~murali\/) and Shane Ross (ESM). The CRA annual undergrad research competition distinguishes candidates by gender and by the type of their home department: non-Ph.D.-granting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}