Dear Graduates,
We honor you as you complete your undergraduate studies and embark on new challenges and adventures. As only the second cohort to complete a minor in our program, we are encouraged by the growing interest in our curriculum and inspired by your demonstrated commitment to engaging with computing in purposeful, expressive, and conscientious ways.
You begin your next journey at a time of immense technological change, which have led some to question the value of a computing education. Nevertheless, while things may change—and they will—your computing knowledge still has great value. For all the things these new technologies may do, it is ultimately we who make sense of and give meaning to their outputs. Never relinquish your human agency in these matters. In many ways, engaging with AI and modern computing is less a story of passive replacement and more a reminder that we are still needed to shape, guide, and occasionally “slap the TV”—just as we did when that once-new technology wouldn’t work quite right on its own!
Human ethics, aesthetics, and collaboration remain essential. It’s up to you to ask tough ethical questions, challenge assumptions, stay curious, and insist that technology serves society responsibly. Computing is not only a science, but also an art—demanding creativity, imagination, and a commitment to educating one another and raising all ships together. As you move forward, lean into these values: be thoughtful innovators, ethical leaders, creative problem-solvers, and collaborators who ensure technology reflects the best of our humanity.
Be well.
Tyrone Stewart, Ph. D.
Academic Program Manager, PCAS
WN26: Katherine Marie Gearhart BS Major: Molec, Cell & Dev Biology; Minor: Minor : Computing for Scientific Discovery
WN26: Camille Louise Golba BA Major: Drama; Minor: Computing for Expression
WN26: Joanne Jungin Huh BS Major: Computer Science; Minor: Computing for Scientific Discovery
WN26: Angela Marshyti BS Major: Molec, Cell & Dev Biology; Minor: Computing for Scientific Discovery
WN26: Aderola Oluwadamilar Owaduge BS Major: Computer Science; Minor: Computing for Scientific Discovery
WN26: Maya Angelina Tahl BS Major:Biology, Health, & Society; Minor: Computing for Scientific Discovery
WN26: Emily Elizabeth Adamo BS Major: Information Analysis; Minor:Computing for Scientific Discovery
WN26: Zhariyah Laughlin BS Major: Public Health; Minor: Computing for Scientific Discovery
WN26: Zihan Li BA Major: Communication and Media; Minor: Computing for Expression
WN26: Michael S McKenna, IV BS Major: "Computational Analysis", Individualized Concentration; Minor: Computing for Scientific Discovery
WN26: Madelyn Massel Meyer BS Major : Information Analysis; Minor: Computing for Scientific Discovery
WN26: Seri Eulalia Stewart BA Major: History of Art; Minor: Computing for Expression
WN26: Sreeja Vemulakonda BBA Major: Business Administration; Minor: Computing for Scientific Discovery
WN26: Connor James Curtis BA Major: Communication and Media; Minor: Computing for Expression
WN26: Hudsen Mazurek BA Major: Creative Writing-Literature; Minor: Computing for Expression
WN25: Ariana Kathleen Chaidez BS Major : Neuroscience; Minors : Science Techology and Society (STS) & Computing for Scientific Discovery
WN25: Ryan Galligan BS Major : Data Science; Minor : Computing for Scientific Discovery
WN25: Meha Goyal BBA&BSE Majors : Business Administration & Computer Science; Minor : Computing for Scientific Discovery
WN25: Sophia Lubbe BS Major : Economics ; Minor : Computing for Scientific Discovery
WN25: Emma Moss BA Major : Psychology; Minor : Computing for Expression
WN25: Grace Randolph BS Major : Biopsychology, Cognition, and Neuroscience (BCN); Minor : Computing for Scientific Discovery
SU25: Najee Khan BS Major : Neuroscience; Minor : Computing for Scientific Discovery
SU25: Andrea Pellot Jimenez BS Major : Physics & Interdisciplinary Astronomy; Minor : Computing for Scientific Discovery
WN24: Karl Mohy El Din BS Majors: Economics & Cognitive Science(Decision & Cognition); Minors : Math & Computing for Scientific Discovery
WN24: Yiqi Li BA Major : Cognitive Science (Language & Cognition); Minor : Computing for Scientific Discovery
