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Patricia Ordóñez: Propelling computer science into the health industry and equity

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Dr. Patricia Ordóñez
Dr. Patricia Ordóñez

The disparity of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields is still a serious issue in 2016. Computer science, a STEM discipline, is not the exception. Data from the National Science Foundation show that although the number women acquiring computer science degrees has increased since 2002, women are still a small proportion of the workforce in this field which continues to be dominated by men. 

Rum celebrates first programming camp

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With the goal of advertising the new undergraduate academic offerings, the Computational Sciences and Software Engineering Programs from the Electric and Computer Engineering Departments at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus held the first UPRM Hacks App Inventor. This camp admitted 27 high school students to particpate in the program during the month of july. 

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