For senior physics students Cam Cassady (middle right) and Chris Valentine (far right), the summer was spent engaged in research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory near Knoxville, Tennessee. Their research projects were a result of the Visiting Faculty Program funded by the US Department of Energy. Under the direction of ORNL research scientist Matthew Blackston…
Congratulations to Roanoke College mathematics majors Jon Marino and Sam Parsons for winning prizes for their research presentations in Portland, Oregon, on August 8! Their papers on “Integer Compositions Applied to the Probability Analysis of Blackjack” and “Protecting Confidentiality and Scientific Integrity Through Synthetic Data and Mediator Servers,” respectively, were named winners in the Pi…
Please watch this short video about a local valedictorian’s hero. https://m.wdbj7.com/levi-helm-craig-county-high-school/26399194 Mr. Boyer is Geoff Boyer, a Roanoke College mathematics major, class of 1998. Geoff has a great sense of humor, served as volleyball coach for several years, and has done PA and radio announcing for the Craig County football team. He is a wonderful…
One way to sing the praises of our MCSP students is to note that many of them sing in the Roanoke College Choir, the Oriana Singers, and a cappella groups such as Looking for an Echo. The Choir has a remarkable record of performances abroad and professional recordings, and has just been named a Finalist…
The 2015 rankings from the Princeton Review are in, and Roanoke College once again finds itself among the 379 Best Colleges. In addition to this ranking, the Princeton Review has named Roanoke College as a great school for majors in Computer Science. This is the fourth consecutive year that the Computer Science department has received…