Faculty Accomplishments

Named a 2019 Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery. The Distinguished Member program recognizes professional experience and significant achievements in the computing field.

Has been invited to be a member of the External Advisory Committee for the Templeton Initiative for Engineering and Computer Science at Union College, providing counsel on the development, implementation, and growth potential of the Initiative which will develop integrative coursework and innovative learning opportunities involving engineering and computer science in the liberal arts setting.

Was an invited speaker for the National Science Foundation Townhall on Data Science in Education, October, 2021.

Gave an invited talk for the 2021 Women@GECCO workshop (part of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference).

Was featured in the Member Spotlight of the October 2020 issue (Volume 52, number 4) of the SIGCSE Bulletin, a publication of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education.

Valerie Barr was quoted in the article "Minding the Gaps" by Samuel Greengard, Communications of the ACM, Sept. 8, 2020. 

On September 8, Valerie Barr gave a talk entitled "What is it really and how do we do it?  Exploring Data Science, Data Analytics, Data Feminism" as part of the Iona College Careers in Science series.

Assistant Professors of Dance Barbie Diewald and Shakia Barron were artists in residence at the internationally-renowned Bates Dance Festival to develop their collaborative dance project, "Concourse." The work will premiere at Mount Holyoke College September 16 and 17, 2022.

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025)

Katie Berry received a National Science Foundation (NSF) subaward from Oregon State University for the project “Discovery of novel functional RNA classes by computational integration of massively-parallel RBP binding and structure data.” The project is for five years.