Shepherd professor gets $28,800 grant

SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. — Seung-yun Kim, assistant professor of computer information sciences at Shepherd University, recently received a $28,800 grant award from the West Virginia IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (WV-INBRE) program.

This is the second year that Kim has received an INBRE award for his research on Petri nets.

Melissa Pegues, a senior chemistry major from Charles Town, W.Va., and Nicholas Drozda, a senior computer engineering major from Martinsburg, W.Va., worked with Kim on the research.

The grant award allows two students to work with Kim this summer. The project began May 1 and run through April 30, 2012.