{"id":10503,"date":"2018-10-11T13:16:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T17:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=10503"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:44","slug":"a-champion-for-women-in-computer-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/11\/a-champion-for-women-in-computer-science\/","title":{"rendered":"A champion for women in computer science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3158\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rada.jpg\" alt=\"&quot; &quot;\" width=\"566\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rada.jpg 566w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rada-125x76.jpg 125w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rada-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rada Mihalcea<\/strong>, professor of computer science and engineering,\u00a0was selected as the Center for the Education of Women\u2019s 2018\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eecs.umich.edu\/eecs\/about\/articles\/2018\/mihalcea-cew.html\">Carol Hollenshead Award\u00a0recipient for her work to increase the pipeline and retention of women in engineering and computer science<\/a>. Mihalcea has dedicated substantial effort to developing programs that introduce more women to the world of computing and encourage them to pursue graduate studies and research careers in the field.\u00a0She received her award on October 10 at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor.<\/p>\n<p>As the faculty champion for\u00a0<a class=\"underlink bluelink\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"http:\/\/girlsencoded.eecs.umich.edu\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Girls Encoded<\/a>, Mihalcea helps design and organize numerous programs through the group that develop a pipeline for women to computer science. \u201cWe are trying to change the stereotypes,\u201d she said in a\u00a0<a class=\"underlink bluelink\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/eecs.umich.edu\/eecs\/about\/articles\/2018\/mihalcea-profile.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Q&amp;A with the U-M Business Engagement Center<\/a>. \u201cThere is so much more to computer science than the general stereotypes out there. This field isn&#8217;t only for men and isn&#8217;t only about programming; there is so much you can do in terms of changing people&#8217;s lives for the better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rada Mihalcea, professor of computer science and engineering,\u00a0was selected as the Center for the Education of Women\u2019s 2018\u00a0Carol Hollenshead Award\u00a0recipient for her work to increase the pipeline and retention of women in engineering and computer science. Mihalcea has dedicated substantial effort to developing programs that introduce more women to the world of computing and encourage them to pursue\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/11\/a-champion-for-women-in-computer-science\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[175,414,188],"class_list":["post-10503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-award","tag-community-engagement","tag-people"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rada.jpg",566,345,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rada-125x76.jpg",125,76,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rada-300x183.jpg",300,183,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rada.jpg",566,345,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rada.jpg",566,345,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rada.jpg",566,345,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rada.jpg",566,345,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rada-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rada-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rada-566x300.jpg",566,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rada.jpg",566,345,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rada.jpg",400,244,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Rada Mihalcea, professor of computer science and engineering,\u00a0was selected as the Center for the Education of Women\u2019s 2018\u00a0Carol Hollenshead Award\u00a0recipient for her work to increase the pipeline and retention of women in engineering and computer science. Mihalcea has dedicated substantial effort to developing programs that introduce more women to the world of computing and encourage&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10506,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10503\/revisions\/10506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}