Monthly Archives: November 2023

Internships at 84 Lumber

84 Lumber has several internships available that might be of interest to students in the CIS department:

Business Intelligence Intern

Store Systems Developer Intern

IT Intern – Deployment

IT Intern – Security

IT Intern – Service Desk

These are excellent opportunities for summer internships. Please take a look at the requirements for each and apply if you are interested!

Congratulations to 2023 TRISS Scholarship Winners

It is with great pride that the CIS Department recognizes the TRISS 2023 scholarship recipients. This year 14 Top Secret Colonials (RMU Cybersecurity students) were awarded money from the Three Rivers Information Security Symposium (TRISS). TRISS takes place in the Pittsburgh region each year and is the largest technology conference in this region. Students were required to be registered full-time in Cybersecurity or a similar IT degree and were required to submit a transcript (3.0 GPA or higher), letters of recommendation, and a personal statement to be considered. RMU’s students received the largest amount of money and had the largest number of recipients followed by CMU, Pitt, and other universities in our region. The recipients were as follows:

  1. Katherine Shannon
  2. Kelson Bowman
  3. Evan Brooks
  4. Logan Strausbaugh
  5. Marvin Posadas
  6. Austin Martin
  7. Sean Miller
  8. Grant Carvender
  9. Kevin Hienz
  10. Haley Nangle
  11. Cade Skuse
  12. Jesse Marks
  13. Madison Maynard
  14. Anthony Guerrero

Congratulations!

Ph.D. Student Ivan D’Souza and Professor Mishra Win Distinguished Paper Award at EDSIGCON 2023

Congratulations to Ph.D. ISC student, Ivan D’Souza (Cohort 23), and Dr. Sushma Mishra! Ivan and Dr. Mishra won the Information Systems Applied Research Distinguished Paper Award from the 2023 ISCAP Conference on Computing Education + Information Systems Applied Research. This year’s EDSIGCON was held in Albuquerque, New Mexico on November 1-3, 2023.

Their winning paper was titled “Insights for the next viral outbreak: An information systems applied research based on lessons from COVID-19.” All conference paper winners can be found here:
https://iscap.us/proceedings/2023/best.html