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Newsletter – August 2021
Released on August 10th, this month’s newsletter highlights our upcoming Student Data Science Symposium on Sept. 24th! With many new opportunities, courses, and workshops for the upcoming school year, we are promoting and showcasing the AUC’s data science talent more than ever! Be sure to view this month’s edition and get involved! Click to View Our August Newsletter!
Newsletter – July 2021
Released on July 8th, this month’s newsletter might be our most employment-loaded release to date! July’s issue is packed full of data science employment & development opportunities for both faculty and students alike…and as the summer heat kicks in our Director reminds us of the AUC’s burning commitment to social justice through data science. Click to View Our July Newsletter!
Newsletter – June 2021
Released on June 8th, this month’s newsletter features several exciting job/internship opportunities, our final summer workshop registrations, and much more… As usual, demand is great and deadlines are quickly approaching. Click to View Our June Newsletter!
Newsletter – May 2021
Released on May 6th, this month’s newsletter showcases several exciting opportunities for the summer for both faculty and students! We have premier development training that includes paid stipends. Deadlines are quickly approaching. Click to View Our May Newsletter!
Sloan Foundation Awards $249,994 to AUC DSI
The AUC Data Science Initiative has just been awarded a $249,994 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to implement an open source software development postbaccalaureate program in the summer of 2021. We have coined this program as “Open Doors by Open Source” (ODxOS). The program will leverage open source software development to acquire entry-level software developer positions in some of the nation’s top companies.
As open source software development is essential to the collaborative nature of data science, the ODxOS program will strengthen efforts to develop a well-skilled data science workforce. This program will train Black computing graduates to prepare them for competitive positions at high-tech companies, develop course components to embed software development into the undergraduate curriculum, share promising practices with HBCUs and other institutions, and diversify the high-tech field.
The Project Lead and co-Principal Investigator is Dr. Kinnis Gosha of Morehouse College, and the Principal Investigator is Dr. Talitha Washington of the AUC Data Science Initiative.
For more about the program, see: https://datascience.aucenter.edu/odxos/