Congratulations to Prof. Zheng Zhang, who has been awarded a new NSF CCF grant for her research on compiler and runtime system optimizations for concurrent programming. The award for $378,141, entitled “Optimizing Compiler and Runtime for Concurrency-Oriented Execution Model,” runs from August 2014 to September 2017. More details are available here: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1421505