Margaret Lawson '18 named Finalist for CRA Award

Congratulations to Margaret Lawson '18, who was named as a Finalist for the Computing Research Association Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award. This award program recognizes undergraduate students in North American universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research. Margaret was first author on the paper "EMPRESS—Extensible Metadata PRovider for Extreme-scale Scientific Simulation," and she delivered the talk at the 2017 Parallel Data Storage Workshop-Data Intensive Scalable Computing Workshop at the Supercomputing Conference SC'17. EMPRESS is a novel metadata service to support scientific discovery from extreme-scale scientific simulations.