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Software company sponsors hackathon for SCSU students

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The hackathon took place over three days, from April 20-22, with core hours that all teams were expected to be present in the College of Science and Engineering’s ISELF building to meet with tech mentors from Open Systems International.

In the end, 50 students on 11 teams presented software products such as EV car charging applications, apps that estimated solar energy potential, an app to trade renewable energy on markets, energy efficiency apps to address varying grid demand, and even a phone app for consumers to minimize food waste.

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College of Science and Engineering holds 2023 Research Colloquium

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A total of 89 students from St. Cloud State University’s College of Science and Engineering (COSE) presented their research at COSE’s first Research Colloquium since 2018 on April 18.

Students showcased their current research and other various projects through poster or oral presentations. The event gave students a unique opportunity to showcase their academic and co-curricular projects such as significant service-learning exercises, original hypothesis-driven lab research projects, results from consulting projects, and much more.

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Three research works of COSE students published, one wins “Best Paper” award

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St. Cloud State University Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity Dr. Akalanka Mailewa took three students, Anushka Hewarathna, Roger Massmann and Sharveen Paramiswaran, to the Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium (MICS) 2023 conference in April.

The three SCSU students each represented their group papers that were accepted and published by MICS, which annually holds a regional conference dedicated to providing higher education participants an educational experience focused on sharing creative thinking about computer-related issues.

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SCSU alumni speak on professional opportunities with History degrees

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On April 3, the St. Cloud State University Department of History hosted four History alumni to speak to current students, faculty and staff about the opportunities they have been presented after earning degrees from SCSU.

Alumni David Mead, Nathan Zacharias, Kayla Stielow and Shaela (Rabbit) Pion found numerous connections in conversations at the opening reception with History Professors Jason Eden, Robert Galler and Jeffrey Mullins, as well as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts Mark Springer.

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Company owned by SCSU alumnus earns 2023 Small Business Exporter of the Year recognition

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St. Cloud State University alumnus Raj Bhandari ’08 had his company, Sciencix, recognized by the U.S. Small Business Administration as the 2023 Small Business Exporter of the Year in March. Bhandari, who earned a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and a minor in Biology from SCSU in 2008, is the sole owner and president of Sciencix.

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SCSU Speech & Debate students win national championship in Team Parliamentary Debate

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The St. Cloud State Speech & Debate team captured a national championship to go along with other awards at the 2023 National Online Forensics (NOF) National Speech & Debate Championship Tournament on March 23-26. NOF National Championship is a comprehensive, online, culminating, national forensics tournament.

SCSU claimed the national crown in Team Parliamentary Debate in a team comprised of El Julius and Nirman Karki, while five other SCSU students brought home awards at Nationals:

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COSE students have research article published in international journal

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In early March, two St. Cloud State students from the College of Science and Engineering (COSE) had their research article published in an international, scientific, peer-reviewed journal.

Software Engineering student Faizi Fifita and Data Science and Mathematics student Jordan Smith had their research article titled “Machine Learning-Based Identifications of COVID-19 Fake News Using Biomedical Information Extraction”, published in Big Data and Cognitive Computing. This research article belongs to the journal’s collection: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Health Applications on Social Networks.

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