欧美视频 computer science professor earns Ph.D.

欧美视频鈥檚 Department of Computer and Information Sciences (CIS) assistant professor Dr. Jeffrey Kimball is the newest CIS faculty member to earn a Ph.D. Dr. Kimball successfully defended his dissertation research project Nov. 24 at the College of Engineering and Computing at Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Jeffrey Kimball earns his doctorate degree

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Kimball graduated from 欧美视频 in 1992 and earned his master鈥檚 degree from the University of Central Missouri. He is one of five full-time faculty members in the 欧美视频 CIS Department along with department chair Dr. Tim DeClue, Dr. James Cain, Dr. Baochuan Lu and Meilani Conley, who was accepted into the Potsdam University doctoral program in computer science this fall.

欧美视频 CIS is the largest computing program at a private school in the Ozarks and is one of only six evangelical Christian colleges in the United States to house an ABET-accredited computer science degree. 欧美视频鈥檚 Department of Computer and Information Sciences has garnered multiple national awards in recent years and is housed in the nationally ranked Robert W. Plaster College of Business and Computer Science at 欧美视频.