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Class of 2024 Award Winners

DCS @ Bates wishes to congratulate the recipients of the annual prizes in DCS, recognizing those who have demonstrated high academic achievement in DCS and who have actively contributed to building a DCS community of care and collaboration.

Judith Magyar Isaacson ’65 prize:
The Judith Magyar Isaacson ’65 Prize is awarded annually to students who have demonstrated high academic achievement in digital and computational studies or mathematics. Established by her family in honor of Judith Isaacson, the college’s first computer science instructor from 1969 to 1978, and dean of women from 1975 to 1978.
  • Grace Acton
  • Rebecca Anderson
DCS book award:
  • Grace Acton
  • Rebecca Anderson
  • Shelby Armor
  • Charlie Berman
  • Jing Fang
  • Carlos Gonzalez Alvarez
  • Sadie Kriegler
  • Aru Poleo
  • Jo Vineyard
  • Yuhao (Eric) Zhao

Congrats to 2024 Graduates

DCS @ Bates wishes to congratulate the entire graduating class of 2024, and in particular those graduating with a minor in DCS:

  • Chrissy Aman
  • Rebecca Anderson
  • Shelby Armor
  • Charlie Berman
  • Alexis Evans
  • Jing Fang
  • Ned Friedman
  • Charlie Gainey
  • Rob Gillis
  • Carlos Gonzalez Alvarez
  • Alex Horowitz
  • Daisy Kettle
  • Sebastien Kleitman
  • Sadie Kriegler
  • Phasma Landrum
  • Avery Leonard
  • Annie Li
  • Elias Lindquist
  • Quinn Macauley
  • Aru Poleo
  • Jackson Quinn
  • Adam Remondi
  • Taylor Si
  • Samantha Simmons
  • Duc Anh Than
  • Amy Townend
  • Jo Vineyard
  • Anna Weylman-Farwell
  • Xinyi Zhang
  • Yuhao (Eric) Zhao

DCS welcomes Dr. Andy Ricci

DCS @ Bates is happy to welcome our newest tenure-track faculty colleague, Dr. Andy Ricci, who will begin teaching at Bates in the Fall 2024 semester. Dr. Ricci completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Cornell, specializing in human-robot interaction and telepresence robotics. In the Fall semester, Dr. Ricci will be teaching two sections of DCS 109.

Congrats to Dr. Hanson Shrout

We are happy to announce that Dr. Anelise Hanson Shrout was awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor of Digital & Computational Studies! Dr. Hanson Shrout’s recent book, Aiding Ireland: The Great Famine and the Rise of Transnational Philanthropy, was published by NYU Press in January 2024.

APPROVED May 3, 2021: A Minor in DCS

The Bates faculty voted to approve a minor in DCS. Course requirements for the minor are here. Extra information appears here, including courses satisfying our content areas, as well as learning goals for each content area.