The 2024 CS Halloween Party was held on October 29 @ Professor Matthews’ house. Check out these party pics!
The 2024 CS Halloween Party was held on October 29 @ Professor Matthews’ house. Check out these party pics!
The Summer Research Scholars (SRS) program supports students participating in collaborative research supervised by W&L faculty. The program aims to encourage the development of research techniques within a particular discipline, to promote the active acquisition of knowledge, and to stimulate student interest in inquiry.
Here are the 2024 Computer Science SRS students, their faculty supervisors and descriptions of their projects:
Professor Taha Khan:
Professor Khan had 2 SRS students this summer — Allison Badeaux ’28 and Nabil Youssef, ’26. The topic for their research was “Internet Censorship: A Self-Destructing Prophecy”.
The internet is a crucial medium for communication, information sharing, and freedom of expression. However, internet censorship poses significant challenges to these aspects. The study explores the multifaceted impacts of censorship on users’ behaviors, attitudes, and strategies to bypass restrictions.
Allison and Nabil’s research examined the effectiveness of censorship and its potential counterproductive effects. While censorship aims to control information flow and maintain social order, it often leads to unintended consequences like increased efforts to circumvent restrictions and the spread of alternative information channels. By analyzing user reactions, the study seeks to determine whether censorship achieves its goals or inadvertently promotes greater resistance and innovation in information dissemination.
Professor Simon Levy:
Professor Liz Matthews:
Professor William Tolley:
Professor Tolley had two projects with a total of four students this summer. The objectives, goals and direction for each project, along with the student research students are listed here.
Jackson Jacobs, a recent graduate of W&L, double majored in Computer Science and Politics. He is employed as a Software Engineer at RVO Health– a joint venture between Red Ventures and Optum, part of UnitedHealth Group.
Congratulations to the Class of 2024 Computer Science Majors and Minors for their outstanding achievements! Their accomplishments, along with the accomplishments of certain CS undergraduates are listed here, as they appear in the Commencement Bulletin.
Majors:
Another well deserved achievement for Katie!
Yurechko, who double majors in computer science and philosophy and minors in poverty and human capability studies, has been named the 2024 Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK) Leader of the Year in academics and research.
The Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK) Leader of the Year in academics and research recognizes individuals who have demonstrated exceptional leadership qualities and achievements in the area of academia and research within their academic community or institution.
A 2023 initiate of the University’s Alpha Circle of ODK, Katie will graduate in May 2024 with a 4.0 GPA. She was also named W&L’s first Marshall Scholar in December 2023.
Congratulations!
Here’s the link to the full story.
The first ever W&L SOLVE Hackathon was held in the IQ Center, May 12-13, 2024.
A hackathon is an event where individuals or teams come together to collaboratively work on solving problems or creating innovative projects within a limited time frame. The SOLVE 2024 event was an interdisciplinary student-focused gathering for any undergraduate student from W&L.
A grand prize of $1,000 was awarded to three separate teams judged to have created the best products or for embodying the spirit of the competition. Danish Bokhari ’24, Lakpa Sherpa ’25 and Mohamed Soliman ’27, who created EcoEats, a food app designed to revolutionize the way we eat and live sustainably, were one of the three winning teams.
Congratulations Danish, Lakpa and Mohamed!
Click here to read the full Columns article:
https://columns.wlu.edu/wl-holds-inaugural-solve-2024-hackathon-event-on-campus/
W&L senior CS major Katie Yurechko ’24 co-authored a paper titled “You Can (Not) Say What you Want: Using Algospeak to Contest and Evade Algorithmic Content Moderation on TikTok,”. Katie collaborated with Ella Steen, a student at Gordon College, and Daniel Klug, a systems scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. The paper was recently featured online in “Social Media and Society” published by Sage Journals.
Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) was founded in 1776 at the College of William and Mary. Its motto is “Love of learning is the guide of life.” The Gamma of Virginia Chapter was chartered at W&L in 1911.
Washington and Lee University’s PBK chapter welcomed 54 members of the junior and senior classes at the Convocation on Friday, April 5. The honorees were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa based on their exceptional academic achievements in the arts and sciences. Following are the computer science initiates from the Class of 2024 and 2025:
2024
Danish Bokhari
Julia Raskin
Will Xue
2025
Sarah Lathrop
Linh Nguyen
Ignas Volcokas
Lydia Yang
Congratulations!
Ford Scott, Class of 2025, is majoring in computer science and minoring in digital culture and information. Ford is featured in a Columns article showcasing his educational experiences at W&L.
Noteworthy accomplishments are his founding the Cybersecurity Club and his summer internship with Input Output Global organization.
Check out the write up to learn more about Ford!