With technology transforming every aspect of peoples' lives, careers in science, technology, engineering, and math have taken off. The evolution of tech startups, mobile apps, social media platforms, ...

Phanuelle Manuel said having a fellow Black woman as a mentor helped her visualize a future in computer science. Manuel, and hundreds of other high school students, received training, mentorship and ...

There are careers that are attracting more women than ever before. There are fields where gains are slow. And then there are those -- like computer science -- that are actually moving backwards. The ...

Laura Beckwith, a new computer science Ph.D. from Oregon State University, and her adviser, Margaret Burnett, specialize in studying the way people use computers to solve everyday problems — like ...

Computer science programs at Illinois colleges and universities are less white and male than they used to be, but they’re still not as diverse as the overall population of students or the state as a ...

At the dawn of computing, women were the early adopters of computational technology, working with punch cards in what was then considered secretarial work. As computer science evolved into a ...

Joseph Cimpian receives funding from the Institute of Education Sciences, the National Science Foundation, and the Spencer Foundation. The share of computer science and engineering degrees going to ...

Women today face unique challenges in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) fields. Assistant Professor Emily Prud’hommeaux of the Computer Science Department is helping to surmount ...