Category: Women in CS

UTD CS Students Mental Health App Aims to Help Via UT Dallas Mercury News — A mental health text line will be available through the UTD app for students to get emotional support from peers. Kavya Kannan, a neuroscience sophomore and creator of the helpline, collaborated with several campus departments, including OIT, the Wellness Center, and […]

Students Accelerate Engineering, Tech Skills at Toyota Hackathon Seven University of Texas at Dallas students earned spots to compete alongside Toyota software and hardware engineers from all over the world at the SWARM Connected Mobility Hackathon, held this summer at the company’s U.S. headquarters in Plano. Toyota invited six students to participate in the 36-hour […]

Spring’22 Grace Series Continues To Motivate And Inspire With Talks From Women In Tech The challenges for women in STEM start long before women enter the workforce. During college, women in STEM fields often face different treatment than their male classmates. Men outnumber women in STEM occupations and STEM majors, and in particular, women of […]

Grace Series Continues to Inspire and Foster a Stronger Community for Women in Tech Despite the gains that women have made in STEM careers, men still make up 73% of all STEM workers. In order to combat this issue and help foster a stronger community for women in tech, the UT Dallas Computer Science Department […]

Graduating Software Engineer Delivers Speech At The Jonsson School’s Fall’21 Commencement Ceremony Esteemed faculty, fellow graduates, friends and family, thank you for joining us this morning to celebrate a momentous occasion. My name is Renae Sedluk, and I am a second baccalaureate student receiving a bachelor’s of science in software engineering today. We are gathered […]

IEEE Women in STEM with Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham Via IEEE – The Diversity and Inclusion Task Force presents Women in STEM, with Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham, Founders Chair Professor of Computer Science and the Executive Director of the Cyber Security Research and Education Institute at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). Bhavani has worked in integrating Cyber Security and […]

Dr. Rym Zalila-Wenkstern Named One of Dallas Business Journal’s Top Innovators Inside North Texas’ University Halls Often, many university researchers’ headlines don’t make it in the publications that are read far and wide. Nonetheless, their ideas and technology form the basis of new companies and inspire the work of others. NTX Inno’s coverage of the […]

UT Dallas WEHack Founder Named a Top 50 Hacker Via Erik Jonsson School News − With minutes to go, computer science student Medha Aiyah checked her code. Though she had not accomplished a fully viable application for fashion selection within the timeframe of the HackUTD hackathon, she breathed a sigh of relief. She had tackled an […]

Grace Series Continues to Empower and Inspire Virtually – Part 2 The spring 2021 Grace Series, held virtually, began with Juliet G. Odima, CSM, CSPO, Executive Director, STEAM Achievers Associate Vice President, and Director, School of Data Science and Analytics, Colaberry Inc. In her talk titled “Auditing your Next Career Move: Getting that Job, Career […]

Grace Series Continues to Empower and Inspire Virtually – Part 1 Throughout history, women have made extensive contributions to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) and through this, they have influenced eras and changed the world. The need for women in STEM is ever-growing, with women continuing to comprise one of the world’s strongest growing […]