November 2005: Cory Beard, Associate Professor of CSEE, is co-author of the recently published Internet RFC, Framework for Supporting Emergency Telecommunications Service (ETS) in IP Telephony" (RFC # 4190). Although RFC stands for Request for Comments, they are archival documents that have gone through Internet Engineering Task Force's (IETF) rigorous approval process to be released as an RFC. In publishing this RFC, he has accomplished something that only a handful of university faculty members around the world have accomplished so far.

September 2005: A team led by Khosrow Sohraby, Dean of School of Computing & Engineering and Curators' Professor of CSEE, has recently received a $785,000 four-year grant from the US National Science Foundation to develop a program for pre-college students as well as high school teachers in an effort to attract students to pursue undergraduate degrees in engineering and computer science. This program will hold workshops where pre-college students and high schools teachers will have an opportunity to learn about many varied careers computer scientists and engineers pursue and to connect the high school curriculum with engineering application.

June 2005: Khosrow Sohraby, Curators' Professor of CSEE, was named the Dean of the School of Computing & Engineering. He served as the interim dean for the past year.

July 2004: Deep Medhi, Professor of CSEE, is co-author of the book Routing, Flow, and Capacity Design in Communication and Computer Networks, published by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers (an imprint of Elsevier).