March 2019 – Lewis & Clark ACM Student Chapter

Featured Student: Adriana Rogers

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Bio Course of Study: CS & Math major, minor in Political Science Hometown: Auburn, CA, but grew up overseas Main Interests: Using CS and math for data-driven approaches to social justice issues. What project or experience (in computing) are you most proud of? Last summer, I worked at the Voting Rights Data Institute through Tufts […]

Workshop Series: Introduction to Biocomputing

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This week’s exciting workshop is an introduction to the deeply interesting and applicable field of biocomputing and bioinformatics. It’s led by Julia Somers (a Biology major), and Ben Glick (a Math/CS & Physics major). It will involve solving bioinformatic problems as a group, so bring your creativity and your problem solving skills ! The workshop […]

Featured Student: Linus Brogan

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Bio Hometown: Seattle, WA Course of Study: Computer Science and Mathematics Major Main Interests: Computer security, rock climbing, chocolate What project or experience (in computing) are you most proud of? I would say it is the Onion Forecast from PioHacks 2018. The Onion Rater predict the likelihood of encountering onions at each meal, so students […]

Workshop Series: I’m an art major. Why should I care about computers?

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This week’s exciting workshop is about the intersection of art and computing. It will be conducted by Shannon Drew ’20, who is an Art History/ CS double major. It will happen at 3:30 on Friday, March 15th in the Watzek Classroom.

Featured Student: Julia Somers

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Bio Hometown: Healdsburg, California Course of Study: Biology Major Main Interests I’ve always loved studying biodiversity, which is what drew me to be a biology major. I came to LC thinking that I was going to focus on ecology and environmental science. I never imagined that my favorite subjects would turn out to be genetics, […]

Workshop Series: Git and GitHub with Roshan

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The ACM Chapter is excited to announce the next in our ACM Workshop series. This week’s workshop is about Git, the version control system, and GitHub, the online repository of Git codebases. Roshan will be teaching us all about what version control is for, Git best practices, and many other exciting things.This week’s workshop is […]