Ray Nominated for 2024 CSU Faculty Service Award

TSYS School professor of computer science Lydia Ray has been nominated by the Turner College's Awards & Scholarships Committee for the 2024 CSU Faculty Service Award. This award is to recognize those members of the faculty who have contributed outstanding professional service to the University and/or community. Service is defined as the contribution of the faculty member's expertise in his or her discipline to worthwhile efforts of the university, community, educational, environmental, business and economic life of the community. When they think of Ray's faculty service at CSU, what quickly comes to mind for most CSU faculty members is her 2021-2022 academic year service as executive officer of CSU's faculty senate. Moreover, many CSU faculty would consider this work enough to qualify one for a service award. However, Ray's case for a university service award is much deeper than just that endeavor. For example, a strong element of Ray's award portfolio illustrates how she assists academic disciplines outside of the Turner College with their technology needs. Illustrations of this include assisting Oxbow Meadows with technological options for visitors with reduced human interaction during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the help of a graduate student in computer science, Ray designed a database that would store all information about each of Oxbow Meadows' exhibits. This also involved designing an app that could read a QR code and display all information relevant to that exhibit. In another illustration, Ray and two undergraduate students in computer science assisted CSU chemistry professors in developing an app to assist visually impaired students in working with chemistry lab materials and equipment. Ray and her team designed and implemented an app that would read a QR code on each lab apparatus that would play an audio player to provide safety information/instruction in audio mode. Not only do these illustrations demonstrate how Ray's expertise serves faculty across CSU's campuses, they also show he she is uniquely able her service endeavors into experiential learning opportunities for her students. The winner of the 2024 CSU Faculty Service Award will be announced in April of 2024. Turner Business wishes Lydia the best of luck.

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