/atlas/ en /atlas/2021/06/02/atlas-commencement-spring-2021 <span>ATLAS Commencement Spring 2021</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2021-06-02T17:55:11-06:00" title="Wednesday, June 2, 2021 - 17:55">Wed, 06/02/2021 - 17:55</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/atlas/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/article-thumbnail/donna_auguste.png?h=c33d10d5&amp;itok=xY22GVEe" width="1200" height="800" alt="Donna Auguste giving a virtual commencement speech, dressed in graduation regalia."> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/atlas/taxonomy/term/144"> News </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/atlas/taxonomy/term/1243" hreflang="en">JEDI</a> <a href="/atlas/taxonomy/term/583" hreflang="en">auguste</a> <a href="/atlas/taxonomy/term/168" hreflang="en">feature</a> <a href="/atlas/taxonomy/term/34" hreflang="en">news</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default 3"> <div class="ucb-article-row-subrow row"> <div class="ucb-article-text col-lg d-flex align-items-center" itemprop="articleBody"> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content-media ucb-article-content-media-right col-lg"> <div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--media paragraph--view-mode--default"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div>Despite a challenging academic year, this spring 42 ATLAS students earned BS degrees in Creative Technology and Design, three received MS-Social Impact degrees and 11 received degrees in MS-Creative Industries. Donna Auguste, who earned a PhD in Technology, Media and Society in 2019 and is now the CEO of Auguste Research Group, delivered the guest address.<br> </div> <script> window.location.href = `/atlas/commencement2021`; </script> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Wed, 02 Jun 2021 23:55:11 +0000 Anonymous 3739 at /atlas /atlas/2019/05/06/opening-doors <span>Opening Doors</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2019-05-06T13:11:58-06:00" title="Monday, May 6, 2019 - 13:11">Mon, 05/06/2019 - 13:11</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/atlas/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/article-thumbnail/simone1_0.jpg?h=2ff9645d&amp;itok=2CUY1Nli" width="1200" height="800" alt="Simone Hyater-Adams"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/atlas/taxonomy/term/1243" hreflang="en">JEDI</a> <a href="/atlas/taxonomy/term/583" hreflang="en">auguste</a> <a href="/atlas/taxonomy/term/723" hreflang="en">grad 2019</a> <a href="/atlas/taxonomy/term/573" hreflang="en">hyater</a> <a href="/atlas/taxonomy/term/416" hreflang="en">kos</a> <a href="/atlas/taxonomy/term/34" hreflang="en">news</a> <a href="/atlas/taxonomy/term/430" hreflang="en">oh</a> <a href="/atlas/taxonomy/term/727" hreflang="en">stangl</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default 3"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><p dir="ltr">&nbsp;</p><p dir="ltr"> </p><div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/atlas/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/article-image/screen_shot_2019-05-06_at_9.27.11_pm.png?itok=fn5IQRFS" width="750" height="152" alt="The five PhD students who are graduating"> </div> <p>The dissertations of all five 2019 graduates of the ATLAS Institute's&nbsp;PhD in Technology, Media &amp; Society program emphasize&nbsp;empowering groups that tend to be less engaged in engineering fields. The five graduates are all women, itself a group that is&nbsp;underrepresented in engineering.<br><br> “There are opportunities to make our learning systems more equitable, empowering and inclusive of the amazing diversity in the human experience,” says Abigale Stangl, a&nbsp;graduating PhD student&nbsp;who researched&nbsp;how to make media and information systems more accessible for people who are blind or visually impaired. “We need to think about how to change social conversations about what’s possible for people of all different abilities.”</p><p>Women, people with disabilities, and most minority groups, including African Americans, Latinos, American Indians and Alaska Natives are all underrepresented in science and engineering (S&amp;E),&nbsp;according to the 2019 Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities Report by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics. &nbsp;The proportion of the underrepresented groups is lowest in engineering, computer sciences and physics.&nbsp;<br><br> Mark Gross, director of the ATLAS Institute, points out that ATLAS PhD students embrace many topics and this clustering is a little unusual, but that ATLAS is a place that seeks to empower everyone to engage&nbsp;with technology and engineering. “Historically, engineering and computing have been dominated by white men like me," says Gross.&nbsp; He&nbsp;references the research&nbsp;of this year's ATLAS graduation speaker, inventor Leah Buechley, a ���ϳԹ� alumna with a PhD in computer science from the College of Engineering and Applied Science; she&nbsp;po