Year: 2011

Did you know an ongoing study finds that female STEM faculty at community colleges are in gender parity with their male peers, and have high rates of job satisfaction? A […]

This summer I was one of 12 students selected for an internship at Information Technology Services (ITS), a non-profit organization that monitors and supervises the entire Miami-Dade county public school

Did you know that many women may be less inclined to pursue science and tech fields because they see them as incongruent with romance? When researchers “primed” college women to think

On August 16, Singularity University Presented its second annual Women @ The Frontier Symposium at the Tech Museum in San Jose. It began with a networking recpetion and expo followed

Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.   Save the Date: May 22-24, 2012 Please join us in Chicago, Illinois for the 2012 NCWIT Summit, hosted

As one of two girls that were offered an engineering internship at an engineering company in Mooresville, North Carolina, I spent the summer stretching my knowledge and broadening my horizons

Earlier this year, SSAB member Jane Margolis was interviewed by The New York Times for a story reporting on the gender gap among Wikipedia editors. Did you know that a

August 2, 2011 Welcome to the Summer 2011 edition of the AcademicAllianceNews, issued periodically to complement our weekly communication to AA members. Headlines at a Glance AA Member Survey NCWIT

Did you know that the “tipping point” for ideas and beliefs can be reached with adoption from just 10% of the population? Using computational models of social cognitive networks, researchers

Did you know that the Wikimedia Foundation has created a Public Policy Initiative to improve and diversify editing at Wikipedia? You may recall that in the beginning of 2011, the Wikimedia Foundation

Did you know that the NCWIT Scorecard isn’t just a set of statistics on girls, women, computing, and IT; it also provides a terrific explanation for why women’s participation matters?

There’s a meme floating around the web about the talent war and the competition for “star” performers.  A piece at the NY Times recently discussed the trend of buying startups in order

Did you know that Google’s Computer Science for High School (CS4HS) program is sponsoring workshops at more than 60 locations this summer? CS4HS brin gs computer science professional development and computational thinking workshops

As a winner of the NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing Educator Award in Puerto Rico, I would like to thank everyone at NCWIT and at Google for the opportunity they are

Did you know that U.S. schools with a majority of African-American students are twice as likely to have teachers with little experience as majority white schools in the same district? Recently

Did you know that a recent study of doctors in ICU environments finds that having a physician “co-pilot” can reduce the patient mortality rate by 50 percent?  Researchers at Northwestern

Did you know about the women-in-medicine debate going on over at The New York Times? Last weekend, Dr. Karen Sibert wrote an essay decrying the number of women doctors who

          Come to this informal webinar and learn how to celebrate girls in computing in your region. Day and Time: Thursday, June 23, 2011 from 12:00

Did you know how the state of the economy is impacting computer science education in Washington state? Two stories about technology education in the state caught our eye recently: one

Last call: Ernst & Young Entrepreneurial Winning Women applications due June 30!  Ernst & Young currently is accepting applications for its Ernst & Young Entrepreneurial Winning Women Program. You can

We had a great time at our annual NCWIT Summit last month in New York City, and for all of those who attended – we hope you did, too! We’ve