ONR Annual Report
Executive Summary

This report documents the 1999-00 activities of the Nurturing ECSU Research Talent Program. The NERT program is supported by three active grants. The parent grant number is N0014-99-1-0990 (phaseout funds through 7-31-2002). The summer program involving internships and on-campus research training, is supported by the AASERT grant N00014-97-1-0650 (funded through 6-1-2000). During the 1999-00 academic year all new students in the program were supported by the NERT-2003 grant N00014-98-0749 (funded through 7-30-2003). The program activities are documented on the World Wide Web at http://nia.ecsu.edu/onr/onr.html

The 1999-00 Office of Naval Research Nurturing ECSU Research Talent Program involved 24 undergraduates, mathematics, computer science, physics, and technology majors. Research training meetings began September 8, 1999 and were held every Tuesday and Thursday through April 18, 2000. Meetings were conducted from 5-8 pm. Research training meetings start with a 20-30 minute announcement period during which time students learn about internship opportunities, hear program announcements, give team reports, discuss travel logistics and goals of the program. Following the announcement period, students meet with faculty mentors or attend training on tools used for research. The closing program was held on two nights in April. During the closing program, students made oral presentations of their research training activites. All research teams were also required to complete written reports. Copies of the written reports are included. In addition, students spend 20 hours/week in the undergraduate research computer laboratory completing task sheet requirements and research assignments.

The program this year resulted in 6 out of 6 of the graduating seniors being admitted to graduate school. Statistics on GPA and Enrollment Statistics can be found on page 3.

Summer internship placement was also impressive including: The Naval Research Virtual Reality Laboratory, The Department of Energy, Institute in Computational Science - Scientific Visualization, SCSU Research Institute in Astrophysics, and Univ. of Wisconsin Visualization Research Program. Internship abstracts for 1999 are included in this report. A listing of summer 2000 internship placements is included in this report.

A total of $110,000.00 in scholarships was awarded during academic year 99-00. An additional $15,000.00 was awarded through the Graduate Success Program to support program alumni who are pursuing graduate degrees. With respect to the Graduate Success Program, three students completed a Masters of Science degree in computer science from North Carolina A&T University.

Students presented their research activities at several undergraduate research conferences including, the Seizing Opportunities to Advance Research (SOAR) on the campus of North Carolina A&T University, and NAFEO High Tech Expo in Washington DC. In addition, juniors attended the Graduate School Focus Program on the campus of Georgia Tech, while seniors attended the Graduate Records Examination Forum in New York. All juniors and seniors registered for and took the Graduate Record Examination (GRE).

Twelve of the program participants received the ONR-NERT Research Program Award (certificate plus $50.00) for having a 3.0 or above cumulative or current GPA in 30 or more hours of coursework. Four students received the ONR-NERT Research Scholars Award (certificate plus $100.00) for having a 3.0 or above cumulative and current GPA in 30 or more hours of coursework. Three students received the ONR-NERT Award of excellence (certificate plus $1000.00). Each met the requirement for having a 3.0 GPA and having been awarded a fellowship and admission to a graduate program for Fall'00. Included in the appendix is a copy of the Honors Convocation program which lists not only the awards described but also a list of those students who made the Chancellor's List, Vice Chancellor's List, and Honor List.

With regards to department infrastructure, The Mathematics and Computer Science Department now offers a course in Introduction to Computational Science and Computer Visualization Techniques. Also the revised Computer Graphics Course is now supported by a laboratory of SUN workstations. Six Silicon Graphics O2 workstations have been added to the undergraduate computer research laboratory network.
Visiting Lecture Series

Dr. Johnny Houston, professor of mathematics and computer science, arranged the visiting lecture series during 1999-00. The visiting lectures were members of the faculty of 6 Historically Black Institutions and 2 international universities. A list of visiting lectures and topics follows.

      Resources, Opportunities and Access to the North Carolina Super Computing Center
      Katheleen Collins and Steve Thorpe
      North Carolina Super Computing Center

      A Report on Visit and Scholarly Presentations in Ghana and South Africa Summer 1999
      Dr. Johnny L. Houston
      Elizabeth City State University

      Computational Fluid Dynamic Applications on Parallel Computers
      Dr. Kwai Lam Wong
      Joint Institute for Computational Science

      Center Sequences and Operator Algebra
      Dr. Hemant Pendharkar
      Elizabeth City State University

      Some Challenging Programs in Computation Science
      Prof. H. Thomas Banks
      Center of Research and Scientific Computation

      Mining Reusable Software Code
      Mr. James Overton
      Mississippi State University
1999-00 Graduate Success Report


Name			University		Degree Sought/Earned



Anderson, Melvin	NCA&T			MS in CS

Archer, Darnley		ODU			MS in CS

Banks, Belinda		NSU			MS in Communication

Basnight, Renee		Hampton Univ.		MS in CS

Bowser, Felicia		NC State		MS in CS

Bright, Teresa		Ohio State		MS in CS

Brown, Michelle		Hampton University	MS in CS

Charity, Donald		Howard Univ.		MS in CS

Creekmore, Santiel	Hampton Univ.		MS in Physics

Felton, Curtis		NCA&T			MS in CS

Felton, Karen		NCA&T			MS in Chemistry

Fields, Courtney	NCA&T			MS in CS

Fenner, Auther		NCA&T			MS in Physics

Fofana, Abdula		Howard Univ.		MS in CS

Gardner, Bonnie		Univ. of Maryland	MS in CS

Gatling, Charles	NCA&T			MS in CS

Gayle, Chonda		Hampton Univ.		MS in CS

Gordon, Kim		Virginia State		MS in Math

Hayden, Kuchumbi	NCA&T			MS in CS

Harrell, Jovita		Hampton Univ.		MS in CS

Jones, Alicia		Howard Univ.		MS in CS

Jones, Clarence		Hampton Univ.		MS in Physics

Jordan, Brian		Hampton Univ.		MS in Math

Joyner, Sheri		Howard Univ.		MS in CS

King, Barbara		NOVA Southeast		MS in CS

Koltuniak, Eva Dail	Hampton Univ.		MS in CS

McCray, Tim		Hampton Univ.		MS in CS

Mcfadden, Stacia	Michigan State		MS in CS

Monk, Cultilda		Fayetteville State	MS in Math Education

Saunders, Sharon	Hampton Univ.		MS in CS

Thomas, Cathy		Ohio State		MS in CS

Vaughan, Stephanie	Hampton Univ.		MS in CS

Williams, LaVerne	East Carolina U.	MBA

Summer 2000 Internship Report


Student			Class	Cur.	Cum.	Placement



Newby, Golar		CS	3.47	3.58	Naval Research Lab - Virtual Reality

Banks, Katrina		CS	2.80	2.98	SCSU Research Institute in Astrophysics

Davis, Vincent		Phy	4.00	4.00	SCSU Research Institute in Astrophysics

Brooks, Shayla		CS	3.39	3.20	SCSU Research Institute in Astrophysics

Bah, Ramatoulie		CS	4.00	3.91	Network Resources and Training Site

Creekmore, Torrie	CS	3.29	3.34	Hampton University AURORA Program

Williams, Gregory	CS	2.44	2.91	SCSU Research Institute in Astrophysics

Bailey, Bernard		CS	3.71	3.67	NSU REESS

Lassiter, Gregory	CS	2.00	2.75	Dept. of Energy

Mattocks, Melvin	CS	3.53	3.41	ECSU Ronald McNair Research Program

Gale, Jospeh		CS	3.29	3.01	GOFAS Howard Univ.

Powell, Je'aime		CS	3.29	3.21	Naval Research Lab - Virtual Reality

Walker, Ernest		CS	3.53	3.41	Institute in Comp. Science - Scientific Visualization

Lister, Issac Jr.	Math	3.03	3.20	SCSU Research Institute in Astrophysics

Charity, Donald		Math	3.50	3.44	GOFAS Fellowship - Howard University

Godwin, Katrina*	CS	4.00	3.44	Howard U/Lucent Technologies

Jones, Alicia		CS	3.75	3.52	GOFAS Fellowship - Howard University

Joyner, Sheri*		CS	4.00	3.70	Howard U/John Hopkins Applied Physics Lab

Kaur, Ravindar		CS	4.00	4.00	U. California Berkeley - ONR Fellowship

King, Barbara		CS	3.75	3.25	Graduate School - Nova University



*GEM Fellowship

1999-2000 Statistics


		Number of students	Number of Students	Number of	Number of

		enrolled at school	enrolled in ONR		students	Graduate

		(by year)		Program (by year)	graduated	Professional

										School



Major/Dicipline	FR SO JR SR		FR SO JR SR		Total	ONR	Total	ONR



Chemistry	0  2  2  7		0  0  0  0		4	0	1	0

Comp. Science	66 47 28 39		6  4  4  5		12	5	5	5

Mathematics	2  5  6  21		0  0  1  1		4	2	2	1

Physics		3  0  0  0 		1  0  0  0		0	0	0	0



Totals		71 54 36 67		7  4  5  6		20 	7	8	6







		Mean GPA for all	Mean GPA for ONR



Freshman	2.36			3.41

Sophomore	2.48			3.15

Junior		2.76			3.22

Senior		2.96			3.65



Total		2.64			3.36



ONR GRE Average Score: 1350

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