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Ray, Hodhod and Bedhir Win Major CSU Awards

TSYS School of Computer Science faculty Lydia Ray and Rania Hodhod represented the Turner College as big winners at the 2022 CSU Awards Convocation.  Ray received the 2022 CSU Faculty Service Award for her service contributions within the campus, local community, and profession, all of which are evidence of a remarkable track record – not only as a scholar but also for her passion for service.  She has served CSU at all levels, from chairing important departmental committees, including program assessment and faculty search, to university-level responsibilities, such as chairing the Shared Governance Task Force and serving as the Executive Officer of the Faculty Senate.  Ray is active on advisory boards at Columbus Technical College and Southeast Missouri State University, and she assists her peers in understanding and implementing accessible technology solutions for students through collaborative efforts in computer-assisted learning.  According to Lydia, “The primary goal of my service work is to make CSU a better place for everyone: faculty, staff, administrators and students.”

Hodhod won the 2022 Chappell Graduate Faculty Award, which recognizes a graduate faculty member's positive impact on teaching techniques and pedagogies. Since joining CSU in 2013, she has taught 22 Research and Thesis courses, resulting in 11 Master’s theses, and co-supervised four international graduate students.  Hodhod has also actively designed and taught a number of graduate courses.  According to one of her students, “Her energy and the tremendous effort she puts forth to clearly communicate scientific methods, discoveries, theories and concepts to her students has made all the difference in their levels of achievement in her courses and in their overall studies.”  In addition to these efforts, Hodhod has also been a prolific scholar.  She has recently published in Soft Computing, Egyptian Informatics Journal, Electronics, Journal of Computers in Education, Health Informatics Journal, Sensors and the Journal of Computer Information Systems.

 
Joining Ray and Hodhod on stage was Ehab Bedir, the TSYS School’s cyber range administrator.  Bedir won the 2022 CSU Staff Innovation Award, which recognizes the staff member who develops an innovation that contributes to advancing and promoting one or more of the University’s six core values: excellence, engagement, creativity, servant leadership, inclusion and sustainability.  Through his tireless work contributing to the successful establishment of the TSYS Center for Cybersecurity, Bedir has helped advance CSU’s goals of excellence in teaching and research, lifelong learning, public-private partnerships and service to the community.  Aside from his normal duties, he volunteered to build a new instance of NetLab to replace an old, failing system, and did so without interruption to student services.  Turner Business congratulates these stellar representatives of the Turner College.

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