2006 Awards & Milestones

Shodor was named one of 89 national winners of the 2006 Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility. This award was given to organizations that demonstrated "the best flexible work practices and policies in the nation." The winners were announced in an ad in USA Today and are posted on this website.

Holly P. Hirst, Shodor board member, and one of the most active members of Shodor's national faculty development program, the National Computational Science Institute (NCSI), was named Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at Appalachian State University in April.

On November 13, 2006, an Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Science National Program Award was presented to Robert M. Panoff, Shodor's executive director, for his work implementing the National Computational Science Institute. Presented by the Krell Institute and sponsored by the Department of Energy, the award seeks to "promote and enhance undergraduate education in computational engineering and science."

Interactivate was featured on national radio. On December 4, 2006, Shodor's website received around 38,000 extra visitors (or an 80% increase over normal traffic) after Kim Komando featured the software on her radio show. You can see Kim's review of our site here.