Nick Steffen, then Dr. Lathrop's graduate student, and Miriam Raphael and Sophia Deeds-Rubin, then Dr. Lathrop's undergraduate students, shared in the 1998 AAAI/IAAI Innovative Application Award and the 1999 cover of AI Magazine. Nick Steffen, then Dr. Lathrop's graduate student, and Anton Sazhin and Ye Sun, then Dr. Lathrop's graduate students co-advised with Dr. Irani, shared in the Best Paper Award at the 2001 Genome Informatics Conference. Mac Casale, then Dr. Lathrop's graduate student co-advised with Dr. Eppstein, won the Best Student Paper Presentation award at the 1998 ISMB Conference.
Dr. Lathrop received UCI's Excellence in Teaching Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching (1998).
Dr. Lathrop adheres scrupulously to the UCI Senate Academic Honesty Policies and the ICS Department's Cheating Policy. Any student who engages in cheating, plagiarism, or collusion in dishonest activities, will receive an academic evaluation of "F" for the entire course with a letter of explanation to the student's permanent file. The ICS Student Affairs Office will be involved at every step of the process. Dr. Lathrop seeks to create a level playing field for all students.
