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Maze Day

Donating in support of Maze Day is one of several ways you can support the Department of Computer Science. Maze Day brings blind and visually impaired children to the department to play fun and educational games created just for them.

 

With the continued cuts in state funding, the Department of Computer Science depends on the support of our alumni and friends today more than ever. Some of you may wish to make general gifts to the department without a designation. To those of you who select this option, we say thank you! Others may wish to designate your gift for a particular program. If this describes you, there are a number of ways you can support the department. Here are four examples:

1. The Computer Science Alumni Fellowship is awarded each year to a Ph.D. candidate in his or her final year of study. This award allows students to work full time on dissertation research. Recipients are selected based on the quality of their research and service.

2. The Stephen F. Weiss Award for Outstanding Achievement in Computer Science was established in 2010 and is awarded annually to a rising senior in computer science who has already demonstrated significant accomplishments.

3. Enabling technology research is the passion of professor and alumnus Gary Bishop (Ph.D. 1984). Programs you can support include Maze Day, an annual free-to-attend event which brings blind and visually impaired children, and their parents and teachers, to visit the department for a day of experiencing fun and educational computer applications developed especially for them, and Tar Heel Reader, a web-based collection of free, easy-to-read, accessible books on a wide range of topics. You can find out more about Gary’s research on his web site: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~gb/

4. The Graduate Student Lounge needs renovating! It’s the one place in Sitterson Hall and Brooks Building where students can escape from work to play Foosball, watch television, or just catch a nap, but it’s showing signs of wear and tear. The lounge needs new furniture, game tables, and so on.

To donate to the department, you can make checks payable to the UNC Computer Science Department, and mail them to:

Department of Computer Science
CB# 3175, Brooks Computer Science Building
UNC-Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175