Spring 2012
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April 18th, 2012
Three faculty members in Carnegie Mellon's CS Department - Lenore Blum, Manuela Veloso and Department Head Jeannette Wing - made an initial list of "Famous Women in Computer Science" compiled by the Anita Borg Center for Women and Technology.
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April 8th, 2012
The Girls of Steel, a robotics team composed of high-school-age girls, and their robot, Watson, won two awards for Website and for Engineering Inspiration from the 10th Pittsburgh Regional FIRST Robotics Competition.
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February 16th, 2012
Our February graduate students and undergraduate students lunch and Valentine Making social was held on February 14th at GHC 4405. During this event, there was light lunch served with Valentine Art Making with good companies!
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February 15th, 2012
Julia Schwarz, a PhD student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, was one of 12 recipients of a two-year Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship. This program supports outstanding students in their third and fourth years of PhD graduate students.
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February 2nd, 2012
TartanHacks is a new hackathon jointly organized by ScottyLabs, along with Women@SCS and Project Olympus. The first TartanHacks was held in Feb. 10 and 11th. This hackathon aimed to reach out to all students (campuswide) but targeted those who have little experience or have never participated in hackathons before.
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January 25th, 2012
We had our faculty interview with Emma Brunskill, new faculty member in the Computer Science Department. "I thought the idea of continuing to do research would be really, really cool, and the idea of getting to mentor students and be a teacher also really appealed to me."
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Fall 2011
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December 22nd, 2011
Our end of semester faculty/student lunch was held during the reading day, including a faculty panel. Faculties talked about their researches and shared their life stories.
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November 19th, 2011
A team of students went to the Western PA School for the Deaf to present the Roadshow to 60 high school students on Tuesday, November 15th.
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November 11th, 2011
We had our popular Pre-Registration Event on November 7th in GHC 4405, where students discussed classes and professors. As usual, we locked out the professors to share our honest opinions - the good and bad!
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October 28th, 2011
There was a pumpkin carving social on October 26th to celebrate Halloween. Event was held at GHC 4405 and refreshment was served during the event. Many undergraduate students and graduate students were there to celebrate Halloween!
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October 14th, 2011
There was a minors info session on Thursday October 13th at GHC 8102. Students asked questions and learned about the pros, cons, opinions, and general advice that upperclassmen have to offer about the different minors.
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October 10th, 2011
The Women@SCS TechNights program for middle school girls started on Oct 3rd. TechNights runs every Monday from 7.00-8.30pm.
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September 28th, 2011
Stephanie Rosenthal and Preethi Raju are among 5 CMU students awarded prestigious Siebel Foundation scholarships. Each will receive a $35,000 award for their final year of studies.
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September 16th, 2011
Graduate women and faculty got together to welcome new students and faculty to the School of Computer Science at the 12th Annual Women@SCS Potluck.
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