Dr. Mary Lou Maher Announced as the 2023 NCWIT Harrold and Notkin Award Recipient March 28, 2023 NCWIT is excited to name Dr. Mary Lou Maher, Professor in the Department of Software and Information Systems, College of Computing and Informatics at the Read More »
Dr. Patricia Morreale Announced as the 2023 Joanne McGrath Cohoon Service Award Recipient March 28, 2023 NCWIT is excited to name Dr. Patricia Morreale, Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Kean University, the recipient of Read More »
NCWIT Announces 2023 Recipients of the Harrold and Notkin Research and Graduate Mentoring Award and Joanne McGrath Cohoon Service Award March 23, 2023 The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) has named Dr. Mary Lou Maher, Professor in the Department of Software and Information Systems, College Read More »
The Colors We See March 20, 2023 There are many color “blindness” variations. Below are three of the most prevalent. “Normal” Monochromacy and Achromatopsia Monochromacy is the most severe form of color Read More »
Access and Inclusion in K-12 CS Education: Inclusive Mindsets and Pedagogical Practices March 20, 2023 I began my career as a special education teacher, and I was doing work around developing games and technologies to support engagement and learning for Read More »
Advocacy & Activism in the Disability Community March 20, 2023 Victoria Chavez (they/she) is a Joint PhD student in the Computer Science + Learning Sciences Program at Northwestern University. Victoria’s research interests stem from asking Read More »
Nothing About Us Without Us: The Disability Gap March 20, 2023 Ather Sharif is a PhD student at the University of Washington, focusing on the intersection of Accessibility, Visualization, and Personalization. He is also a Software Read More »
Making CS education inclusive for students with mental health conditions March 20, 2023 Recent years have seen an important and long overdue increase in the number of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in computer science (CS) programs, Read More »
Not All Disabilities Are Visible March 20, 2023 “I was in an existential crisis when picking my major. I wanted to major in mechanical engineering when I first entered college; however, I didn’t Read More »
Reflecting on Disability and Information Technology March 20, 2023 Brianna Blaser and Richard E. Ladner Through our work with AccessComputing, a National Science Foundation Broadening Participation in Computing Alliance, we work to increase the Read More »
Welcome to the third issue of re:think magazine, created by NCWIT March 20, 2023 In this third edition of re:think magazine, we turn to issues of disability and accessibility and how they relate to inclusion and the creation of Read More »
Changing for the Better: Strategies for Elevating Inclusion in a Rapidly Evolving Workplace March 7, 2023 By Joanne Esch, Ph.D. and Andrea Bowens-Jones, Ph.D. Workplace shakeups provide unique opportunities to shape culture. Here’s how to elevate inclusion in times of Read More »