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Scott Pike given Graduate Associate Teaching Award.

It has been a banner year for Scott Pike. On Monday, May 17th, Dean Susan Huntington (Dean and Vice Provost of the Graduate School) and Yolanda Zepeda, the Director of Enrichment Programs for the Graduate School, surprised Scott while he taught a CSE 221 class and presented him with the Graduate Associate Teaching Award. This very prestigious award is the University’s highest recognition of the exceptional teaching provided by graduate students at Ohio State. A $1500 award is given to the ten GATA recipients along with a plaque, which is presented to the awardees during a visit to their classes. Since the University employs approximately 3,000 graduate teaching students a year, these ten are a very select group.

Scott Pike has been the recipient of many awards and honors. Most recently, he was given an OSU Outstanding Graduate Student Leadership Award. With Dr. Paul A.G. Sivilotti, Scott won the Best Paper award at the the 24th International Conference On Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE ICDCS-2004). The paper entitled, Dining Philosophers with Crash Locality 1, won it's first place standing against a field of 475 papers. He is this year's CSE Eleanor Quinlan Memorial Award for Outstanding Teaching. Previously he had received the Department's Outstanding Service Award in 2001.

Scott will be graduating with his PhD in August 2004. Very recently, he accepted an assistant professor position with Texas A&M. He will be missed within the CSE community.