CLAS Newsletter- July 2012 - Park University

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Department Highlights
Computer Science
Our Associa�on for Compu�ng Machinery (ACM) Club hosted an inhouse
programming contest on Saturday, April 14, with awards coming
from sponsors from local IT company Wa�master, who employs ICS interns.
ACM President Cong (Anna) Luo and VP Niren Shakya are in charge
of the Club. The programming contest results are:
Team 1: Anna, 5 problems solved (2nd prize).
Team 2: Long & Brandon , 5 problems solved (1st prize).
Team 3: Josh & Jay, 2 problems solved (3rd prize).
Team 4: Aiba & Jessica, 2 problems solved (4th prize).
Special thanks to judge Niren Shakya, the contest volunteer Steve, and
sponsor Wa�Master.
Natural and Applied Sciences
Parkville junior meteorology major Rachel Dryden has won two pres�gious
interna�onally compe��ve fellowships for the 2012-2013 academic year.
The first, the Killam Fellowship, is an award by the Canadian Fulbright
Commission to study abroad in Canada.
The second, the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD)/
German Academic Exchange Service Undergraduate Scholarship, is an award
to study abroad in Germany for a semester.
Rachel will study in Canada at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec in
the fall of 2012, and in Berlin, Germany at the Freie Universität’s Ins�tute of
Meteorology in the spring of 2013.
Culture and Society
Group picture of the programming contest par�cipants.
(Photo courtesy of John Dean)
Rachel Dryden, Junior
Meteorology major
Park University History majors held a signing ceremony at
the Na�onal Archives—Kansas City loca�on on April 13, 2012,
establishing the “Civil War Endowment Fund” at the State
Historical Society of Missouri located in Columbia.
The aspira�on to establish the Civil War Endowment
Fund occurred by happenstance during a research visit to the State Archives (Photo courtesy of Dr. Timothy Westco�)
in the summer of 2011 by a former history major and Dr. Timothy Westco�, associate professor of history. While researching in
prepara�on for a student-faculty exhibit on Pla�e County’s Civil War, they viewed ar�facts in which preserva�on procedures
were wan�ng.
The purpose of the Civil War Endowment is to preserve, conserve, maintain, digi�ze, and purchase papers, manuscripts
and other archival (non-three-dimensional) material related to the Civil War in Missouri, including documents from the period
leading up to and following the War.