- Junior Faculty Award for Professional Excellence, 2001
A partial list of publications
- “XP Practices Applied to Grading”, with Henry Walker, Proceedings of the ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, February 2006, pp. 173-177.
- 5 Steps to a 5: AP Computer Science, with Kathleen Larson, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2005, 362 pages, ISBN 0-07-143711-8.
- “A Testing-Based Framework for Programming Contests”, with Steven Andrianoff, Steven Gewand (class of 2004), and Greta Heissenberger (class of 2005), Proceedings of the Eclipse Technology eXchange at OOPSLA 2003, Anaheim, CA, pp. 96-100.
- “Role Playing: Easing the Paradigm Shift”, with Steven Andrianoff and Joseph Bergin. Proceedings of the OOPSLA Educators’ Symposium, Seattle, WA, November 2002, pp. 8-13.
A partial list of grants received
- IBM Scholars Program – Eclipse Innovation Grant. Co-author (with Steve Andrianoff) of a proposal to create a framework to introduce testing into the introductory computer science curriculum. Award was for $25,000. (2003)
- IBM Scholars Program – Eclipse Innovation Grant. Co-author (with Steve Andrianoff) of a proposal to create a programming contest framework within the Eclipse system. Award was for $28,000. (2002)
- National Science Foundation. Co-investigator for NSF Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarship (CSEMS) grant number DUE-0123027, to create a scholarship program for talented students at St. Bonaventure University. (2001)
- National Science Foundation. Co-author and co-investigator for NSF CCLI-Adaptation and Implementation grant number DUE-9980999, to create an undergraduate robotics library including sufficient software support for the robots to be used in a variety of courses. (1999)