Friday, May 20, 2011
Cheriton School of Computer Science (CS) undergraduate student, Jacqueline Mok and PhD candidate, Carol Fung, won two of five Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarships available to students enrolled at Canadian universities. "Both of these students have made outstanding contributions to the work of women in CS and the School in general," notes Professor Nancy Day, Chair of the Cheriton School's Women in CS committee. PhD candidate, Azin Ashkan, and graduate student, Wenye Yu, also CS students from Waterloo, were finalists for this award. The Anita Borg Institute has partnered with Google to award scholarships to women in computer science from the United States, Canada, and countries in the Middle East and Europe.