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01/15/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 01/15/2025 14:47

Students, faculty member inducted into computing and information honor society

Credit: Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Sharon Siegfried
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January 15, 2025

MIDDLETOWN, Pa. - Penn State Harrisburg's School of Business Administration and School of Science, Engineering and Technology recently inducted 16 students and one faculty member into the Sigma Chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE), the international honor society for the computing and information disciplines.

Upsilon Pi Epsilon, founded in 1967, is the only international honor society for the computing and information disciplines, and it is recognized as such by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society. The Sigma Chapter of Pennsylvania at Penn State Harrisburg was chartered in 2020.

Graduate inductees included:

  • Tanvi Bhosale, information systems, India
  • Rohit Chorghe, information systems, India
  • Medha Devalraj, information systems, India

Undergraduate inductees included:

  • Samantha Dennison, computer science, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
  • Dalimar Flores-Torres, computer science, Hershey, Pennsylvania
  • Aadil Kakkidi, computer science, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
  • Austin Kaylor, human-centered design and development, Annville, Pennsylvania
  • Kyla Knauber, computer science, Hershey, Pennsylvania
  • Norlian Lambe, human-centered design and development, Laurel, Maryland
  • Mason Malach, computer science, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
  • Andrew Melenson, security risk analysis, La Plata, Maryland
  • Ethan Page, cybersecurity, Hagerstown, Maryland
  • Juliana Rodriguez, security risk analysis, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania
  • Arnando Santos Acosta, cybersecurity, Enola, Pennsylvania
  • Sarah Shaub, cybersecurity, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
  • Valen Usher, computer science, Palmyra, Pennsylvania

Faculty member Andrew Morrow, assistant teaching professor of cybersecurity, was also inducted into the honor society.

For more information on the Sigma Chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon, contact adviser Jesse Middaugh, assistant teaching professor of information sciences and technology, at [email protected].