Howdy!


I'm Dr. Karen Anewalt,
Chair and Associate Professor of Computer Science
at the University of Mary Washington

Contact Me:

Office Location: B24 Trinkle Hall

By Email: anewalt@umw.edu

By Phone: (540) 654-1362

By Mail:
Department of Computer Science
University of Mary Washington
1301 College Ave
Fredericksburg, VA 22401

Teaching:

I love teaching and learning new things. If you have an individual project that you're interested in working on, I'd love to hear about it.

Courses that I teach include:
FSEM 100vv Science of a Connected Age (First year seminar on networks)
CPSC 110 Introduction to Computer Science
CPSC 220 Computer Science I
CPSC 230 Computer Science II Data Structures
CPSC 330 Object Oriented Design
CPSC 348 Introduction to Web Programming
CPSC 414 Introduction to Networks
CPSC 430 Software Engineering
CPSC 448 Advanced Web Programming

Items of Student Interest:

Join the department's Facebook group, UMW Computer Science, to network with current students and alumni.

I'm the faculty advisor for PERL (Promoting, Encouraging, Recruiting, Leading), which promotes greater participation of women in computing. Check out their board in Trinkle basement to find out more about upcoming events.

We have tons of useful resources linked to our department wiki .

Educational Background:

I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at The College of William and Mary in scenic Williamsburg, Virginia. My dissertation research focused on the area of network modeling and involved developing an algorithm to optimize a computer network resource allocation problem. My thesis title was ``Virtual Path Bandwidth Distribution and Capacity Allocation with Bandwidth Sharing''. My dissertation advisor was Dr. Rahul Simha .