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Brant Smith is a fifth-year student in the Outdoor Program pursuing a degree in computer science. He is one of the recipients of the Center for Leadership student leader of the year award.

An interview with Will Loughlin, who balances a computer science senior capstone and life as a D1 basketball player. He recently received a scholarship as a walk-on, the first time in at least 12 years one has been awarded.

Rajshree Shrestha, the graduate program manager for the Computer Science department, was recently recognized as a CU woman who makes a difference at the December 8th, 2021 ceremony held by the Center for Inclusion and Social Change.

Online image descriptions help people who are blind or have low vision easily access information every day. However, website developers and social media users often neglect the important task of creating alt text. It's a complex problem that CU Boulder alumnus Abigale Stangl has been working to untangle for years.

Blind people, like sighted people, publicly share photos, but have limited options for checking if they've captured something they consider private. Assistant Professor Danna Gurari, as a co-lead for an over-$1 million NSF grant, is working to change this.

The Complex Systems Society has awarded a 2021 Junior Scientific Award to SFI External Professor Orit Peleg, an assistant professor within the University of Colorado’s Department of Computer Science and BioFrontiers Institute.

Malinda Malwala Arachchige has been awarded a gold prize at the ESEC/FSE Student Research Competition 2021 for developing an infrastructure that seeks to reduce the repetitiveness of machine learning software. The victory was made even more sweet because it came in the midst of great personal stress. Having won the gold medal, he is eligible to compete at the SRC global world finals in 2022 and he plans to do so.

Orit Peleg, associate professor in the Computer Science department and member of the Biofrontiers Insititute is part of a team studying worm blobs and creating computational models for them. The model might inspire entangled robots made of flexible materials, and helps highlight the lack of a clear-cut divide between living and nonliving materials.

The College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) at the University of Colorado Boulder is launching a new college-wide search for multiple Tenure-Track Faculty positions rostered among any of the six departments in the college. We anticipate hiring at the assistant professor rank, although qualified candidates will be considered at the associate and full professor levels.

Watch an Oscar-nominated documentary at the next Forever Buffs Spotlight! On Sept. 30 alumni, faculty and film Buffs will gather for a special screening of Hunger Ward, produced by Michael Scheuerman (MTeleCom’95).