2 Students Finalists in STaR Symposium
Fairmont State University information systems majors Joseph Boyd and Joshua Posey,
both of Weston, were among 18 finalists in the Undergraduate Student Research Contest
during this year's West Virginia Science, Technology and Research (STaR) Symposium
held at Waterfront Place Hotel in Morgantown this fall.
The STaR Symposium provides a forum for the state's increasingly competitive science
and technology enterprise. University and college faculty members, researchers, graduate
and undergraduate students and members of the business community share research developments,
ideas and collaborations during the annual event.
The contest entry presented by Boyd and Posey was "A Research Study of New Computing
Algorithms for a Public Grid Infrastructure Using the Global Grid Exchange." Boyd
and Posey were among the first FSU students to receive an FSU Summer Undergraduate
Research Experience (SURE) Fellowship, which provided $3,200 for two months of summer
research under the mentorship of Dr. Rebecca Giorcelli, FSU Assistant Professor of
Information Systems. Boyd and Posey also received support from Innovation Management
& Technology Services (IMTS), where they served as interns.
"The SURE fellowship has provided Joe and Josh with invaluable experience by allowing
them to work in the field with leading edge technology at a high tech firm," Giorcelli
said. "Having the opportunity to showcase their results at the STaR Symposium really
highlighted this research experience for them."
Giorcelli said the quality of the students' work is demonstrated by the offer, extended
by Jeff Tucker, Chief Technology Officer at IMTS, to continue funding their research
in public grid infrastructure beyond the SURE fellowship program.
