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FIRST PLACE TEAM (From left) Treshai Hudspeth,
Amy Emberson and Timothy Taylor comprised UAM’s
first place team at the Arkansas Collegiate
Programming Contest.
The UAM teams were given six
programming problems to solve in
five hours. Taylor, Emberson and
Hudspeth successfully solved all six
problems, five on the first attempt.
“This is a tremendous accomplishment
for our students and for
our program,” said Brian Hairston,
dean of the School of Computer
Information Systems. “Our students
have proven over and over again that
they can compete with the best this
state has to offer and excel at a very
high level. I’m proud of them.”
Keith Jones of Acxiom Corporation
and director of the competition,
called the performance of UAM’s winning
team “extraordinary. The contest
is not only about completing the problems
successfully, but also considers
the time it takes each team to complete
them,” Jones explained. “Twenty minute
penalties are given for each wrong
submission. These can really add up and
hurt a team. This can be the difference in
placing in the top two or not.”
Pryor Fellowship
Senior English major Adam Cook of
Winnsboro, Tex., has become the
second student from the University
of Arkansas at Monticello to win the
prestigious Joseph E. Pryor Fellowship
from Alpha Chi national collegiate honor
society.
Cook received the award, which
includes a $1,000 scholarship to the
graduate school of his choice, at the
recent Alpha Chi national convention in
Baltimore, Md.
Cook joins Joseph Lockwood of Stuttgart
as the only UAM students to win the
Pryor Fellowship.
“This is a wonderful honor for Adam
and for the university,” said Chancellor
Jack Lassiter. “The Pryor Fellowship recognizes
both individual academic achievement
and the academic quality of the
institution represented. I know I speak
for the entire university community when
I say how proud I am of Adam’s accomplishments.”
“We are all so proud of Adam,” said
Dr. Kate Stewart, professor of English and
UAM’s Alpha Chi sponsor. “He represents
the best this institution has to offer. He
has been a joy to be around and I have no
doubt he’ll be successful at whatever he
chooses to do.”
The Pryor Fellowship is named for the
late Dr. Joseph E. Pryor, long-time faculty
member, dean and academic
vice president at Harding
University. Dr. Pryor served
as executive director of
Alpha Chi from 1983 to
1993.
Alpha Chi is a national
collegiate honor society
that admits members
from all academic disci-
plines. Membership
is limited to the top 10
percent of the junior
and senior classes and
requires a grade point
average of 3.6 or better on
a 4.0 scale.
TOP SCHOLAR Adam Cook (left)
is the second UAM student in as many
years to receive the Pryor Fellowship.
At right is Jean Hendrix, associate
professor of computer information
systems.
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