Mathematics and Computer Science at Mills College

05/26/2021

Mills, a minority-serving women's college in Oakland, is recruiting for a one-year part-time Distinguished Visiting Professorship of Computer Science for someone with strong industry achievements and a commitment to diversity. Please consider the position for yourself and help spread the word.

**Distinguished Visiting Professor of Computer Science (part-time)**

Mills College invites applications for an endowed part-time position as a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Computer Science for the 2021-2022 academic year. We seek a computer scientist with industry experience who is committed to breaking barriers for women and underrepresented students. The Chan-Norris Professorship is designed to provide excellent teaching and to enhance the exposure of our students to careers, networks, and opportunities beyond what is normally housed at Mills. The selected candidate will teach one computer science elective of their choice per semester, serve on master's thesis committees, and run the department seminar series, which includes bringing in outside speakers. We particularly welcome curricula that support social justice and provide our students with up-to-date skills. There are no degree requirements.

While we prefer candidates who can teach on our campus, we are willing to consider candidates who would carry out their duties remotely.

Compensation for the position is $40,000 over two semesters.

For further information and to apply: https://mills.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=131060

12/28/2019

We are hosting Tech Intersection 2020: Womxn of Color in Computing, which will be held at Mills on Saturday, January 25, 2020. Whether you are a womxn of color from an underrepresented ethnicity or an ally, we hope you will get involved by attending, volunteering, spreading the word, or adding your resume to our database. https://www.facebook.com/TechIntersections/

Tech Intersections is an affordable conference for the womxn of color most underrepresented in tech

10/29/2019

Professor Ellen Spertus hopes that people can learn from her biggest mistakes as a programmer.

As a computer science professor, I encourage students to learn from mistakes, whether their own, mine, or famous examples. I feel it’s time to shine a light on my own mistakes to keep myself humble and in the hope that someone can learn from them.

08/19/2019

The call for speakers is open through September 15 for the 3rd annual Tech Intersections: Womxn of Color in Computing conference. The conference will take place at Mills on Saturday, January 25. https://techintersections.org/call-for-speakers. Please help spread the word.

04/25/2019

Prof. Barbara Li Santi is retiring in style after 38 (!) years at Mills. On Monday, she received the ASMC Outstanding Teacher award, and we will further honor her at a dinner at Ethel Moore Dining Hall on Thursday, May 9, 5-8 PM. If you ever took a class from, or worked with, Barbara, you're invited! May 1 RSVP required. See attached flier for details, including how to share words of appreciation with Barbara.

01/27/2019

Professor Averett spent the weekend as an invited guest at the Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics, an incredible conference that brings together undergraduate women in mathematics from all across the country to present their research, network, and learn from mentors. Just look at all these future women mathematicians---so inspiring!

12/07/2018

Mills is hosting the second annual Tech Intersections conference for womxn of color in computing. If that sounds interesting to you, please check out the website: https://techintersections.org. If you'd like to help, rather than attend, you can volunteer at https://techintersections.org/volunteer.

Whether or not you can attend the conference, we invite you to submit your resume to the database, where it will be seen by local tech companies, including Atlassian, Pandora, Slack, and Mozilla: https://techintersections.org/resumes.

Alumnae Maira Benjamin, Idalin Bobe, Genesis Hernandez, Nadine Bui, Juliana de Heer, Gloriane Tran, and Jennifer Diaz will be speakers, along with dozens of other accomplished womxn of color.

Tech Intersections is an affordable conference for the womxn of color most underrepresented in tech to come together and learn from each other’s successes, challenges, and experiences.

09/14/2018

Mills will be hosting the second annual Tech Intersections: Womxn of Color in Computing conference on Saturday, January 26, 2019. The Call for Speakers is open through October 1. https://techintersections.org/

05/23/2018

CS major Regina Wang crocheted a Go gopher for Prof. Ellen Spertus (on completing CS 114: Programming Languages) and a Fibonacci rabbit for Prof. Susan Wang (on completing CS 125: Theory of Algorithms). Put your guess in the comments what makes this rabbit Fibonacci.

05/14/2018

The professional photographer caught Professor Konrad and Professor Averett disrupting headwear at commencement this year!

05/12/2018

CS students, faculty, and grads celebrated at the Asian and Pacific Islander graduation.