A video entitled "Accurate and Efficient Integral Surfaces for Flow Visualization" won an "OASCR" at the 2008 SciDAC "Electronic Visualization and Poster Night". Six awards, sponsored by the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research of the Department of Energy were given from an entry list that included 56 submissions.

Shubho Sengupta has been chosen as the outstanding graduate student for 2008 in the Computer Science Graduate Program. Shubho, working with Professor John Owens, specializes in Graphics Hardware.