Author: Preston Starkey | Majors: Management and Computer Science My name is Preston Starkey, and I am in the Sam M. Walton College of Business. I am double majoring in computer science and management, and I am minoring in mathematics. My mentor is Nicole Cox, who is...
Finals Season
Author: Ryan Rau | Majors: Computer Science and German With finals season in full swing here in Germany, life has been busy. In the past month I’ve taken four finals and still have two more. When compared to finals back home, they are more different than I was...
New Year, More Confusion
Author: Ryan Rau | Majors: Computer Science and German The new year got off to a rocky start as COVID cases continued to worsen and I was forced into a lockdown as a positive COVID case was found in my flat. As classes started back up after the holiday break was over,...
Towards Generating Single Photons
Author: Apoorva Bisht | Majors: Computer Science and Physics I am currently in my third year of under graduation and majoring in physics and computer science. Being a computer science major gave me the opportunity to work on programming using FPGA. I joined Dr....
Towards Generating Single Photons
Author: Apoorva Bisht | Majors: Physics and Computer science I joined Dr. Nakamura’s lab in the Physics department in the second semester of my under graduation. The goal of the lab is to eventually identify reliable single photons sources. Single photons are...
Holiday Season in Germany
Author: Ryan Rau | Majors: Computer Science and German With 2022 already here, it’s crazy to think that I’ve been living in Germany for the past 4 months. It has not felt near as long, and I can confirm that time really does fly when you’re having fun! With winter...
Classes, Residence Permit & More
Author: Ryan Rau | Majors: Computer Science and German With classes now in full swing, I quickly realized how different classes were here in comparison to back home. The biggest difference was the scheduling of classes, instead of having lectures for a given class...
Month 2: An Early Fall Break and Preparing for the Semester
Author: Ryan Rau | Majors: Computer Science and German With my German intensive course finishing up and a two week break before the actual semester takes place it seemed like I had an early fall break. And with that time, I knew what I wanted to do, travel. With the...
Month 1: Adapting to life in Germany
Author: Ryan Rau | Majors: Computer Science and German As I stood in line for German customs awaiting that passport stamp of validation, I thought to myself that this all had to be a dream. It had been over a year of delays and uncertainty due to COVID and another...
Using Machine Learning for Biological Sequence Generation
Author: Noah Ballinger Major: Computer Science After completing my previous projects in the spring semester, as part of the Data Science lab at the University of Arkansas, I began doing research for the U.S. Department of Defense over the summer. More...