Inspiring computer scientists

Inspiring computer scientists

Pollock wins influential educator award for work as mentor, innovator Lori Pollock is determined to challenge the perception that software engineers merely interact with their programming environment on their computers. “The most effective software engineers are those...
Better Coding

Better Coding

Computer science students mine software developer forums to teach coding practices University of Delaware junior Zachary Senzer and senior Ryan Serva recently presented a research paper, “Automatically Mining Negative Code Examples from Software Developer Question and...
Innovation Fellows

Innovation Fellows

Innovation Fellows program promotes entrepreneurship for everyone Most people think of Mother Teresa as a missionary not an entrepreneur, but her humanitarian work actually required her to have many entrepreneurial skills, including the abilities to sell her ideas,...
Estuary games

Estuary games

Computer science students collaborate with environmental educator As an environmental educator, Maggie Pletta wants children to learn about estuaries, which are bodies of water found where rivers meet the sea. But she knows that kids are a lot more likely to learn...

Code Fun

K-12 outreach, CISters organize ‘Hour of Code’ for underrepresented students Mel Jurist wants all kids to love engineering as much as she does, but she knows that’s a tall order. Academic program manager of K-12 education in the College of Engineering at...
Computer science honors

Computer science honors

UD’s Taufer named distinguished scientist by Association for Computing Machinery The University of Delaware’s Michela Taufer has been named a distinguished scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s leading association of computing...