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Announcements
The CIS student ethics group has room for a few more students. The CIS student ethics group meets at 4:15 - 5:15pm on Wednesdays. The mission of this group is to study and promote ethical behavior of IS and CS students.The main speaker this year is Dr. Keith Miller of University of Illinois at Springfield. He is Editor-in-chief for IEEE Technology & Society, a publication of IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology. If you are interested in being part of the group please let Dr. Roger Ferguson know. 
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Highlights
GVSU student wins research competition
 Congratulations to Computer Science undergraduate
Andrew Bellenir, who was awarded 1st Place in the
Student Research competition at the Midwest meeting of the Consortium for Computer Science in Colleges.
Andrew's project, entitled "Graphics Processor-based Implementation of Bioinformatics Codes", was the
result of a Student Summer Scholar (S3) grant in which he constructed a desktop supercomputer out of
video cards. Andrew's mentors on the project were Dr. Christian Trefftz and Dr. Greg Wolffe.
GVSU CIS Students Contend in the CCSC:Midwest Conference Programming Contest
Congratulations to seven of our School of CIS majors who participated in the programming contest at the CCSC:Midwest
Conference this weekend at Hope College. The team of Stephen Paslaski and Matt Shaver took third place out of 16 teams.
They solved 3 problems out of a total of 7 in 158 minutes. The team of Andrew Bellenir, Briee Degraaf, and Mike Lowis
solved 3 problems in 212 minutes, earning 4th place; and the team of Kurt O'Hearn and Mark Socks
solved 1 problem in 87 minutes, earning 10th place. Congratulations to each of you for a job well done!
The total number of problems to solve was 7, and the time available was 4 hours.
WOW! Dr. Scott Grissom has been awarded
2008 Michigan Professor of the Year AND
the 2008 Glenn A. Niemeyer Outstanding Faculty Award!
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Welcome from the Director
Welcome to the School of Computing and Information Systems at Grand Valley State University.
I am pleased you stopped by to visit us on the web. On this site you can learn about our undergraduate
majors: Computer Science and Information Systems,
several minors, and two graduate programs:
Computer Information Systems and Medical & BioInformatics.
You can also find information on our courses,
what is happening with our students, and also with our faculty. It is our hope that you can discover the answers to
(1) why Grand Valley is the best university to attend, (2) why you should get a degree in computing, and (3) which
major is right for you.
By offering both a Computer Science and an Information Systems degree in the same program, sharing the same
faculty and facilities, students benefit from an applied practical CS degree and a technical IS degree.
Students receive more individual attention in our programs because we offer smaller classes.
Our faculty have a
diverse set of expertise, are excellent teachers, and are active in their respective fields. The faculty
and staff are committed to quality instruction while integrating research developments in computing in both
the undergraduate and graduate curriculum. We have state-of-the-art computing facilities, including a
nationally recognized networking and data communication teaching laboratory,
a Linux lab, an architecture lab, and student research project rooms dedicated for
undergraduate student/faculty research. Students
learn in an environment that emphasizes the practical uses of computing and information technology through
courses that are applicable to business today and augmented through involvement in internships.
Excellent job and career opportunities exist for our graduates as the need for these skills remains in high
demand. As a result, our industrial partners, the School of CIS's Advisory Board, strongly support the curricula,
recruit our graduates, and work with our faculty.
Enjoy your visit to our website and please contact us if you have any questions.
For further information on our various programs and opportunities, please contact:
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