Category: Outreach

Dr. Ranran Feng tells her story at the Fall 2015 Grace Series Lectures The UT Dallas Computer Science Department’s Grace Series Lectures continued with Dr. Ranran Feng as the featured speaker at the beginning of November. The objective of the Grace Series is to present a program of lectures about the role of women in […]

Google University Outreach visits UT Dallas CS dept. for a Week Last October, Google paid a visit to the UT Dallas Computer Science department for a week of activities, luncheons, tech talks, and Q&A’s with the team as part of their Google University Outreach Program. Currently, the UT Dallas CS department has over sixty alumni working for Google. With the large number […]

UT Dallas CS department celebrates Inspiration Awards Luncheon with High School Computer Science Teachers Last month on October 30th, high school teachers, counselors, and mentors traveled from as far as Cypress, College Station, and Pearland, TX, to the UT Dallas campus to accept their 2015 Computer Science Inspiration Award at the Computer Science Inspiration Awards Luncheon. Despite heavy rain that […]

Twenty-Seven CS Students Celebrate ‘Our Time to Lead’ at the 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Technology This October, Twenty-Seven UT Dallas female Computer Science and Software Engineers and five UT Dallas CS faculty members, made their way to Houston, TX, for the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Technology (GHC) Conference. The […]

CS Department Organizes a Bevy of Activities to Welcome Students to the New School Year This August marked the beginning of a new 2015 academic year for UT Dallas and the Computer Department. The UT Dallas Computer Science department welcomed 2,876 students, including 466 computer science/software engineering freshmen, with activities and events as a way […]

UT Dallas Center for CS Outreach Codes with K-12 Campers for the Summer of 2015 This summer students from all over North Texas and beyond ranging from ages five all the way to seventeen came to the UT Dallas Computer Science department to explore the world of Computer Programming. During the eleven weeks of summer […]

UT Dallas CS Dept. Gets Involved With The Open Source Community An Independent Studies course on cloud computing and networking (using OpenStack) was offered at the University of Texas at Dallas Computer Science Department in conjunction with Award Solutions, a company that provides training and consulting to employees of large companies. The instructor of the […]

National Center for Women & IT and Microsoft Research Sponsor UTD’s Tech Girls Summer Camp The National Center for Women & IT (NCWIT.org) and Microsoft Research has selected to sponsor the University of Texas at Dallas’ Connect-Inspire-Guide Camp for female freshman students. The NCWIT Academic Alliance Seed Fund awards NCWIT’s Academic Alliance members at non-profit […]

NCWIT Encourages Young Women through the Aspirations in Computing Program Twelve young female high school students received the Award for Aspirations in Computing from the NCWIT (The National Center for Women & Technology) in a day-long event held in late February. The NCWIT is a non-profit community of 600 universities, companies, non-profits, and government organizations […]