Congratulations are in order! Amid a global pandemic and upheaval across the country, Jasmine Bowers has made history to become the first Black person to earn a doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Florida. The computer science doctoral program, which was created in the last decade, has the highest number of Black women faculty among computer science departments. She joined the ranks of historic Black women in STEM like Mary Jackson, NASA's first Black female engineer, and Dr. Patrica Bath, the innovative ophthalmologist who became the first Black woman to receive a medical patent for her invention that...
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