Congratulations to these outstanding students for the work they did in the new 44-517 Big Data course at Northwest Missouri State University. The course was a great mix of men and women from a variety of degree programs and included both undergraduate and graduate students. The students conducted workshops, worked together to explore big data architectures, problems, and solutions, interacted with industry experts, and published their big data stories.

Best wishes to those continuing their studies and especially to all those graduating this semester, including our outstanding assistant, Shirisha Reddy Rapole - you would make a great professor!

For more information on our:

• BS in Data Science (Emphasis in Computer Science), contact Dr. Nathan Eloe or Dr. Charles Hoot
• BS in Data Science (Emphasis in Business), contact Kathleen Kobayashi
• BS in Data Science (Emphasis in Molecular Biology), contact Lisa Crater
• BS in Data Science (Emphasis in Geographic Information Systems), contact Cortni Shreve
• BS in Cybersecurity, contact our photographer, Dr. Scott Bell
• Masters of Applied Computer Science, contact Dr. Ajay Bandi

Counter-clockwise from lower-left: Anusha Kollu, Aawaj Joshi, Luke Carlson, Sierra King, Krishna Veni Karri, Liz Conard, Shirisha Reddy Rapole (Big Data course assistant), Zachary Haider, Goutham Neravetla, Sumnima Rana, Saivarun Illendula, Pappu Sah, Santhosh Bonala (Web Apps course Assistant), Jesse Alford II, Roshan Thalal, Vipul Chandoor, Sam Gedwillo, Aditya Malireddy, Shiva Kumar Mutukula, Hitesh Kolla, Sai Kumar Uppala, Naresh Vunnam, Sirisha Vinukonda.

Not shown: Kyle Thompson, Paul Gomes, PhaniVardhan Gurram.