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From left, Vannesa Mpofu, Kat Freeman, Cassandra Raineault and Simret Melak make up the executive board of Girls Who Code at Ithaca College.

New club creates safe space for women in tech

By Julian DeLucia, Contributing Writer • October 9, 2024
Girls Who Code at Ithaca College is a student-led computer science club that began in Fall 2024. It focuses on community and portfolio building for women and non-binary students in the field. Currently, there are 24 members, including five executive board members.
The Exploratory Program offers the Business Pathways; the Humanities, Art and Social Sciences Pathways; the Park (Communications) Pathways; the Pre-health Professions Program and the Science, Math and Computing Pathways. 

Exploratory Program requires new students to pick concentrations

By Maddy Vogel, Contributing Writer • April 5, 2023
Incoming students who join the Exploratory Program will have to choose a school concentration so they can explore programs within a known interest.
Q&A: Professor spearheads music app-development project

Q&A: Professor spearheads music app-development project

August 29, 2019

Doug Turnbull, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Ithaca College, spent the summer working with a group of students to create Localify, a web app designed to help people discover...

From left, sophomores Lauren Suna and Tea Mdevadze, two members of the college’s Women in Computing team, won the Liberty Mutual Hack award for their community service app, Ithaca Cares.

Women in Computing team wins award for community service app

By Sam Smith, Contributing Writer • February 28, 2018
The all-women computer science events allow the members to work in a supportive environment with many other women in the technology field.
During the second session Ithaca College Women in Computing taught, junior Beth Dellea taught Bootstrap, a Web framework that programmers use to create more fluid, visually appealing websites.

IC Women in Computing teach programming in first event

By Yena Seo, Staff Writer • March 31, 2015
A new club at Ithaca College is aiming to change the lack of women representation in computer science by encouraging women to learn more about and engage in the field
As a second-year student, Laurence Welch plans to graduate with a bachelor's degree in computer science in May 2015.

Computer science major prepares to graduate in second year

By Maura Aleardi, Staff Writer • March 4, 2015
As a second-year student, senior Laurence Welch will graduate with a bachelor’s degree in computer science in May 2015. He said he graduated from Bard High School Early College with a high school diploma and associate’s degree in liberal arts, which allowed him to enter the college with 64 credits and full completion of the liberal arts requirements.
Ali Erkan, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, teaches students of varying majors and some faculty members how to use data to create digital maps and use computer-based problem solving.

Students and faculty come together for class

By Faith Meckley, Contributing Writer • September 5, 2013
Ali Erkan, professor of computer science, brings together students and faculty for a class in which he teaches how to use data to create maps.
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