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A message from the Student Portal team. This article originally appeared in the Daily Bulletin on July 6, 2015.

The Student Portal has recently reached an exciting milestone: adding a portal feature created by a student web developer.

Our first student-developed feature is the Open Classrooms widget, which allows students to view nearly real-time classroom availability (in Registrar’s Office managed rooms) which they can use as study space.

David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science professors Therese Beidl and Lap Chi Lau have been selected to receive a funding boost to further their transformational and potentially groundbreaking research from The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Raouf Boutaba has been inducted as a Fellow to the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE). 

Congratulations to Lei Chen, M. Tamer Özsu and Vincent Oria who were awarded the 2015 SIGMOD Test-of-Time Award at the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Management Of Data Conference this week, for their 2005 SIGMOD paper "Robust and Fast Similarity Search for Moving Object Trajectories."

A job well done for our Waterloo Black ACM team who finished 13th out of 128 teams at this year's ICPC World Finals in Morocco. Only two teams from Canada attended the World Finals - Waterloo and the University of Calgary. 

In an e-mail sent earlier today, ACM coach Troy Vasiga said, "I am very proud of the team for their effort, diligence and dedication"

The team solved nine of the 13 competition problems.

David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science assistant professor Edith Law has been awarded a grant through the CIHR-NSERC Collaborative Health Research Project (CHRP) program of $145,000 per year for three years.

For the second year, the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science has been ranked 24th in the world by U.K. firm Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). The school, which is ranked second in Canada, joins a number of other subjects from the University of Waterloo in the top 200 including Mathematics - 20th, and Statistics - in the top 100. 

PhD candidates Xu Chu (Ihab Ilyas, Database Research) and Laura Inozemtseva (Reid Holmes, Software Architecture), have been invited to join the prestigious Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship Program.