Awards & Honors

Olivia Strasburg '23 named Finalist in NCWIT Award

March 24, 2022

Olivia Strasburg ‘23

The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) announced the 80 Finalist for the 2022 NCWIT Collegiate Award. The NCWIT Collegiate Award honors the outstanding computing accomplishments of undergraduate and graduate women, genderqueer, or non-binary students. Selected based on their achievements and technical abilities demonstrated through their projects submitted in their Preliminary Round applications, the Finalists represent 59 different academic institutions across the country.

Please join us in celebrating the accomplishment of Olivia Strasburg a junior Computer Science major for their technical contributions to “Identification of Novel nrEVEs in Wild-Caught Aedes aegypti Mosquitos.

The NCWIT Collegiate Award honors the outstanding computing accomplishments of undergraduate and graduate women, genderqueer, or non-binary students. Conferred annually, the award recognizes technical contributions to projects that demonstrate a high level of innovation and potential impact. Past projects include: software and app development, machine learning, big data, bioinformatics, cybersecurity, space, and more.

Posted date: March 24, 2022

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