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DePauw Women in Computing Program One of 4 Nationally to Receive NCWIT Award (Fall, 2007) A DePauw University program is the recipient of an inaugural Academic Alliance Seed Fund award from the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT). "Leveling the CS1 Playing Field," which is administered by Gloria Childress Townsend, Herrick E.H. Greenleaf Professor of Computer Science and director of the Science Research Fellows Program at DePauw, is one of four college programs across the nation to be honored. The DePauw program "seeks to engage first-year women students through role modeling, dispelling myths about computing, and showcasing a broad variety of computing careers and lifestyles," notes an announcement of the award at Yahoo! Finance. "The project will use its $10,000 to produce a video for incoming freshman women that provides information about introductory computing courses and encourages confidence in their potential and ability."
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