University of Wisconsin-Parkside

Coordinated by math professor Donald Piele, the competition is used to pick the United States team to compete in the annual International Olympiad in Informatics. By 1998, UW–Parkside teams had won four gold medals, six silver medals and nine bronze medals.
In May 1993, the university awarded its first honorary doctor of humane letters degree to poet Gwendolyn Brooks. In May 1994, Chancellor Kaplan left the university to become president of the Metropolitan State University of Denver, and was succeeded by Eleanor J. Smith, vice president for academic affairs and provost at the William Paterson College of New Jersey. In 1994, in a project that grew from the university's 25th anniversary celebration, the UW–Parkside Nature Trail was created, including 10 geological and historical markers around the nearly 700-acre (280 ha) campus. The project later included a printed guide and signs marking more than 140 species of trees.
In May 1996, UW–Parkside was granted professional accreditation of its School of Business …