Markowsky Awarded Honorary Doctorate from Ukrainian University
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ORONO — George Markowsky, professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science, recently was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from The Research Council of Ternopil National Economic University in the Ukraine for his work during a recent sabbatical there.
He helped the university win a NATO grant enabling the installation of a municipal fiber optic network in the city of Ternopil that connects all the area institutions of higher learning. In addition, Markowsky helped the university set up the American Ukrainian Faculty and served as its first dean, consulting on a wide variety of projects for colleagues there, and helped the university win several other grants.
In July, Markowsky received the Outstanding Achievement Award in Cybersecurity at the 2010 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing in Las Vegas, where he organized a session on Cybersecurity Education.