To recognize their remarkable accomplishments of graduates of the Department's degree programs and to acknowledge the support of important friends of the department, the Department established the University of Massachusetts Amherst Computer Science Department Outstanding Achievement and Advocacy Award (OAA) program, under which awards will be presented annually in various categories.
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2014 OAA Awards. Nominations should be sent by email to Jean Joyce (jean@cs.umass.edu) by November 15, 2014.
Preferably, an OAA nomination should consist of:
In addition, it would be helpful if you could provide us with:
Categories from prior OAA awards include:
For the "Outstanding Young Alum" award, nominee should be a CS alum who will be under the age of 35 on May 3, 2014, or an alum whose last UMass Amherst CS degree was awarded within the past ten years. For the category of Outstanding Support for the Department, nominees do not need to be graduates of UMass Amherst.
View list of previous OAA Award Recipients.
The 2014 OAA Banquet and Events will be held on Friday, May 2, 2014. Please save the date! Details will be posted on http://www.cs.umass.edu/oaa2014.