"The Diversity and Inclusion Task Force presents Excellence in STEM, with Nery Antonio Chapetón-Lamas, instructional faculty in Computer Science at MiraCosta Community College in Oceanside, California.

Professor Chapetón-Lamas shares how connecting with Latinx colleagues outside of STEM helped him become a better computer scientist, faculty, and person.

Keep reading to learn how Professor Chapetón-Lamas has overcome professional challenges because of the community he built around himself."

- Creative Concept: Sebastian Olmos for "TikTok video organization and transcription app"
- Sports Solution: Henry Krain

As the 2022-23 academic year started at Iowa, the ranks of our graduate programs welcomed:
- 25 MCS and 10 PhD students (Computer Science)
- 5 MS and 2 PhD students (Informatics)

“Growing up, Gursharan Virk dreamed of becoming a fighter pilot. But as he got older, the third-year student at the University of Iowa worried he might have to choose between his Sikh faith and his dream career.

Virk returned to the U.S. for the start of his junior year of high school, and he attended Waukee High School just west of Des Moines. Unable to visit colleges during the COVID-19 pandemic, Virk chose Iowa because of the strength of its computer science program."

In Summer 2022, Rachael Chen, a student at Adlai E. Stevenson High School (Lincolnshire, IL) interned with Prof. Guanpeng Li within the IOWA-HPC Lab.

The result? A paper entitled: "D2MON: Detecting and Mitigating Real-Time Safety Violations in Autonomous Driving Systems"

The University of Iowa Department of Computer Science recognizes this academic year’s scholarship recipients:
Barkmeier-Tice Scholarship - Harper Eastman; Emily Johnson
Arthur A. Collins Scholarship - John Piaszynski; Anthony Terrones
Frank A. Park Scholarship - Cathryn Lyons
David Spang Award - Lydia Esbaum; Fiza Virk
Principal Scholars Award - Alexander Barloon; Ashley Tapia
Jason & Leslie Weber Scholarship for Women - Annika Heiling
Jason & Leslie Weber Emerging Technologies Scholarship - Mitchell Hermon; Raymond Yang
Gerard Weeg Scholarship - Nathan Gillis