{"id":19374,"date":"2020-06-11T16:05:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T20:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=19374"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:04:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:04:57","slug":"dillahunt-receives-skip-ellis-early-career-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/06\/11\/dillahunt-receives-skip-ellis-early-career-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Dillahunt receives Skip Ellis Early Career award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.si.umich.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/profile_image\/public\/profiles\/dillahunt_tawanna_5x7_0.jpg?itok=DQcUzpms\" alt=\"(Photo of Tawanna Dillahunt.)\"\/><figcaption>(Curtesy of Tawanna Dillahunt.)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.umich.edu\/about-umsi\/news\/dillahunt-receives-skip-ellis-early-career-award\">Tawanna Dillahunt, University of Michigan School of Information (UMSI) associate professor,<\/a> was announced as an inaugural recipient of The Computing Research Association\u2019s Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research (CRA-WP) Skip Ellis Early Career Award.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The award is given to a person who identifies as a member of an underrepresented group in computing who has made significant contributions in computer science or engineering. The award honors the late Clarence \u201cSkip\u201d Ellise, who was the first Black scholar to earn a Ph.D. in computer science.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am truly honored to be a recipient of this award,\u201d says Dillahunt. \u201cI was lucky to have met Skip at UC Boulder in 2007 where he gave me career advice that was key to getting me to where I am today. Skip paved the way for many of us. [&#8230;] I hope my research will one day become as impactful as his.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tawanna Dillahunt, University of Michigan School of Information (UMSI) associate professor, was announced as an inaugural recipient of The Computing Research Association\u2019s Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research (CRA-WP) Skip Ellis Early Career Award.&nbsp; The award is given to a person who identifies as a member of an underrepresented group in computing who has made significant contributions\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/06\/11\/dillahunt-receives-skip-ellis-early-career-award\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19391,"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":[854,852,188],"class_list":["post-19374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-computer-science","tag-engineering","tag-people"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dillahunt_tawanna_5x7_0.jpg",300,420,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dillahunt_tawanna_5x7_0-100x140.jpg",100,140,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dillahunt_tawanna_5x7_0-143x200.jpg",143,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dillahunt_tawanna_5x7_0.jpg",300,420,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dillahunt_tawanna_5x7_0.jpg",300,420,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dillahunt_tawanna_5x7_0.jpg",300,420,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dillahunt_tawanna_5x7_0.jpg",300,420,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dillahunt_tawanna_5x7_0-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dillahunt_tawanna_5x7_0-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dillahunt_tawanna_5x7_0-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dillahunt_tawanna_5x7_0.jpg",300,420,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dillahunt_tawanna_5x7_0.jpg",179,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Tawanna Dillahunt, University of Michigan School of Information (UMSI) associate professor, was announced as an inaugural recipient of The Computing Research Association\u2019s Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research (CRA-WP) Skip Ellis Early Career Award.&nbsp; 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