{"id":276,"date":"2012-08-02T11:46:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T19:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newwww.hmc.edu\/about-hmc\/?p=276"},"modified":"2024-03-27T10:21:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T17:21:10","slug":"cs-professor-featured-in-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2012\/08\/02\/cs-professor-featured-in-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"CS Professor Featured in USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/03\/ran-libeskind-hadas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/03\/ran-libeskind-hadas.jpg\" alt=\"Ran Libeskind-Hadas\" class=\"wp-image-251\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ran Libeskind-Hadas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Computer science Department Chair Ran Libeskind-Hadas was featured in a USA Today article about the gender gap in math and science fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the article, \u201cMath and science fields battle persistent gender gap,\u201d Libeskind-Hadas shared the importance of allowing students to choose how they want to apply the skills they are acquiring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Many of the guys would be just as happy in a class that focused exclusively on video games and robots,&#8221; he said. \u201c[For women], seeing the applications of computing to society is really important, and seeing applications of computing to things they use in their day-to-day lives is important. That includes things like, how does Google Maps work, or how does a music recommendation system work.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer science Department Chair Ran Libeskind-Hadas was featured in a USA Today article about the gender gap in math and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-faculty"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13017,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/13017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}