ACM-funded Oral History Project on Women in Computing

Guest Post by Bethany Anderson, Archival Operations and Reference Specialist at the University of Illinois Archives, and Alicia Hopkins, graduate student in the University of Illinois School of Information Science Documenting women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) has been challenging given the historically fewer numbers of women in STEM fields. Likewise, women in STEM have not been well … Read More

Introducing the Voices of Illinois Oral History Portal

Guest Post by Alicia Hopkins Alicia Hopkins is a graduate student in the University of Illinois School of Information Science and an archives assistant at the Student Life and Culture Archives. The University Archives has been collecting oral histories for quite some time. These personal stories cover a wide range of topics including the Great Depression, university administration, Project 500, … Read More