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The National Academy of Sciences has elected 120 new members and 30 international associates, including three MIT professors Angela Belcher, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, and Ronitt Rubinfeld in recognition of their achievements in original research.

Angela Belcher is the James Mason Crafts Professor of Biological Engineering and Materials Science, a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, and the head of the Department of Biological Engineering.

She is a biological and materials engineer with expertise in the fields of biomaterials, biomolecular materials, organic-inorganic interfaces, and solid-state chemistry and devices. Her primary research focus is evolving new materials for energy, electronics, the environment, and medicine.

She received her BS in creative studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She earned a PhD in inorganic chemistry at UCSB in 1997. Following her postdoctoral research in electrical engineering at UCSB, she joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Chemistry. She joined the faculty at MIT in 2002.

Recognitions include the 2013 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize; the 2010 Eni Prize for Renewable and Non-conventional Energy; and being named a 2018 National Academy of Engineers Fellow, 2015 National Academy of Inventors Fellow, and 2012 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow. In 2009, Rolling Stone magazine listed her as one of the top 100 people changing the country. She has founded five companies, and also holds 36 patents, with many pending. In 2019, she began her tenure as head of the Department ofBiological Engineering.

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, investigates the quantum electronic transport and optoelectronics properties of novel two-dimensional materials, with special emphasis to their superconducting, magnetic, and topological properties.He is known for his groundbreaking research on twistronics in 2018, the Jarillo-Herrero group discovered that by rotating two layers of graphene by a magic angle, the bilayer material can be turned from a metal into an electrical insulator or even a superconductor.

A native of Spain,Jarillo-Herrero received his licenciatura in physics from the University of Valencia, an MSc degree from the University of California at San Diego, and his PhD in 2005 from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. After a one-year postdoc in Delft, he worked at Columbia University as a NanoResearch Initiative Fellow before joining MIT in 2008.

His early career awards include an NSF Career Award (2008), a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship (2009), a DOE Early Career Award (2011), a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE, 2012), an ONR Young Investigator Award (2013), and a Moore Foundation Experimental Physics in Quantum Systems Investigator Award (2014 and 2019). He has been selected as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics-Web of Science (2017-present), and was elected APS Fellow in 2018. Jarillo-Herrero is the recipient of the APS 2020 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize, the 2020 Wolf Prize in Physics, the 2020 Medal of the Spanish Royal Physics Society, the 2021 Lise Meitner Distinguished Lecture and Medal, the 2021 U.S. National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Discovery, and the 2022 Dan Maydan Prize in Nanoscience Research.

Ronitt Rubinfeld is the Edwin Sibley Webster Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratorys Theory of Computation group. Her research interests include randomized and sublinear time algorithms, with a particular focus on what can be understood about data by looking at only a very small portion of it.

Ronitt received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991, and prior to that graduated from the University of Michigan with a BSE in electrical and computer engineering. Before coming to MIT, Ronitt held postdoc positions at Princeton University and Hebrew University. In 1992, she joined the faculty of the Computer Science Department at Cornell University, where she was an ONR Young Investigator, a Sloan Research Fellow, the 1995 Cornell Association for Computer Science Undergraduates Faculty of the Year, and a recipient of the Cornell College of Engineering Teaching Award. From 1999 to 2003, Ronitt was a senior research scientist at NEC Research Laboratories, and in 2004, she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Among other honors, Rubinfeld gave an invited lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2006. She has been recognized by MIT with the Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising in 2018, and the Seth J. Teller Award for Excellence, Inclusion, and Diversity in 2019. She became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2014 for contributions to delegated computation, sublinear time algorithms, and property testing; and she was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.

Those elected this year bring the total number of active members to 2,512 and the total number of international members to 517. The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit institution that was established under a congressional charter signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. It recognizes achievement in science by election to membership, and with the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine provides science, engineering, and health policy advice to the federal government and other organizations.

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VIJAYAWADA:KL Deemed-to-be-University will offer a BSc computer science course from the next academic year 2022-23. The course was introduced by WIPRO national officer Lavanam and Oracle product development director Sarath during a programme held on the university campus in Tadepalli on Thursday.

Speaking on the occasion, Lavanam said that BSc computer science students will have several job opportunities at national-level on par with engineering students. "Besides, students who have also completed BSc honours will also have higher education opportunities overseas," he said.

"Major changes have taken place in the fields of science and technology after the COVID-19 pandemic. Students can excel if they develop skills in cybersecurity, data science and artificial intelligence," Lavanam said.

KL University vice-chancellor Dr Saradhi Verma said, "We are offering cybersecurity, data science and artificial intelligence specialisations in this course." Later, they launched the BSc Computer Science wallpaper and website.

The event was attended by pro-chancellor Dr Jagannadha Rao, director of admissions Dr J Srinivasa Rao, director of international relations Dr Kishore Babu, dean of placements Dr Prasad, College of Science principal Dr Subrahmanyam, faculty and students.

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Both Jenny Dhoumo and Lauren Kirshenbaum found out on Instagram.

Ms. Dhoumo, a 24-year-old New York University senior was in a cafe, doing schoolwork, when she saw a friends repost from Rolling Stone, announcing that Taylor Swift would speak at the N.Y.U. commencement this month and receive an honorary doctorate of fine arts.

Ms. Dhoumo, who will receive a degree in Media, Culture, and Communications, after a challenging college enrollment that lasted seven years across three universities she took time off to work and help her family has been a fan of Ms. Swift since her girlhood in Queens; Ms. Swifts debut album was the first CD she owned. Shed been fretting about her prospects after graduation. The news seemed auspicious.

This felt like a weird sign, like a reassurance that things will be OK, Ms. Dhoumo said at the blooming edge of Washington Square Park, the public space in Greenwich Village that doubles as the universitys quad. I think her being this icon of my youth, and now being here in my adulthood, shes coming back to me. Not to relive my childhood, but maybe to connect to my inner child a little. To say, Remember who you were back when you were 11 years old, and now youre here today, this young woman, getting ready for the world.

Ms. Kirshenbaum, a 22-year-old computer science major who is a self-described medium fan of Ms. Swift, marveled at the singers persistence and pertinence in her life. Its crazy to think of the people I grew up listening to Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Harry Styles and how relevant they still are, she said. Weve kind of evolved with them.

Conversations with a half-dozen graduating N.Y.U. seniors, approached in the park, demonstrated the breadth of their connection with Ms. Swift.

The pop star has had 10 albums hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts since 2006, nearly the entirety of these students memory. So this personal connection with her and her songs can be specific.

She feels deeply. Its a great talent, said Senniah Mason, a 21-year-old international relations major from Phoenix, who was having graduation pictures taken with her roommate, Isabelle Jacques, a 22-year-old psychology major from Boston. If I hear it, Ill listen to it, but I dont go out of my way to find it. She paused. 1989, I love that album, actually. Safe and Sound, Out of the Woods, I like those songs too.

Ms. Jacques echoed this sentiment: She seems really great and nice. So it will be great to see her talk. But I cannot say Im dying.

Ms. Swifts pervasiveness extends to social media, an omnipresent scroll in which this cohort was the first to be immersed throughout adolescence. She has nearly 300 million combined followers on Instagram and Twitter. Though she follows zero people, and hasnt posted much recently, her existence on those platforms in these students formative years has created a bond for many.

I think in my generation, in particular, there are these parasocial relationships that are developed with celebrities, said Ishaan Parmar, a 20-year-old film major from the Bay Area, with a professorial air. So, people will say Taylor Swift is speaking at my graduation, and they think there is going to be some sort of one-on-one connection with Taylor Swift. In actuality, its probably a speech that she may or may not have written, that shes going to give at Yankee Stadium. But thats still cool.

According to an emailed statement from John Beckman, the senior vice president for public affairs at N.Y.U., honorary doctorate recipients are chosen in fields in which the university conducts research and teaches the sciences, the social sciences, the humanities, the arts, the law, medicine, business, public service. We select honorees whose talents, achievements and actions will serve as examples for our graduates. Past recipients have included Sonia Sotomayor, Ang Lee, Bill Clinton, Aretha Franklin, Janet Yellen, Hillary Clinton and Clive Davis.

The awarding of honorary degrees is a distinction that N.Y.U. takes very seriously, Mr. Beckman wrote. We have an extensive selection process that begins with an official nomination in writing by a member of the N.Y.U. community, followed by a vetting process by staff and then review and approval by the university senate, and ultimately by the board of trustees. When asked about how specific recipients are chosen, he wrote that the nomination process and the consideration of candidates is confidential.

The choice of Ms. Swift is not improbable. She is among the most famous people of her generation, and Brittany Spanos, a Rolling Stone senior writer, taught a class on her this year at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at N.Y.U. (Previous classes in this series have covered Stevie Wonder, James Brown, Aretha Franklin and David Bowie. When asked if the class was related to the honorary doctorate, Mr. Beckman wrote, Theres no connection, as far as I know; its a coincidence.)

She has really elevated the conversation about the role of the female pop star, said Nekesa Mumbi Moody, the editorial director of The Hollywood Reporter. Ms. Moody wrote a chapter on Ms. Swift for the 2018 book Women Who Rock: Bessie to Beyonce. Girl Groups to Riot Grrrl, and her interviews with Ms. Swift for The Associated Press date nearly to the artists earliest days.

She noted Ms. Swifts songwriting abilities, her capacity for connecting with her fans and, especially, her zeal. She has made us rethink how we examine how women songwriters discuss their own heartbreaks, Ms. Moody said. She certainly has endured a lot of conversation about that, some of it sexist.

Though Ms. Kirshenbaum had stopped listening to Ms. Swifts music in high school, she has returned to it recently, and finds it freshly empowering. I remember growing up, all those teen magazines, and her being portrayed as someone who dates a lot and then breaks up and writes songs about these people, she said. Now, we kind of dont see her that way. We see more of the complexities.

Ms. Swifts capacity to take her music in new directions, and otherwise respond to industry challenges, also yields respect.

Johnson Liu, an animated 21-year-old biology major from Queens, described himself as not really a fan, having renounced any brief tween affection for Ms. Swift in favor of heavy metal years ago. But he expressed respect for her capacity to shift genres, to jump in trying new techniques and approaches, referring to this quality as pretty rad.

When ownership of her back songwriting catalog was sold to Scooter Braun, Ms. Swift was livid. Flouting the system, shes rerecording and rereleasing her first six albums, allowing her to retain the rights to the new versions, and place a fresh spin on the songs. Her fans have flocked to the albums. Even Swift skeptics, like Mr. Parmar, described this tactic as a pretty boss move.

Moreover, all the students interviewed for this article thought that having Ms. Swift as their commencement speaker brought cachet to their school and graduating class, and radiated joy into collegiate careers convulsed by the pandemic. Her appearance felt like a gift, not least because so many people they knew, and even people they didnt, had approached them about attending.

People are fiending for those tickets, Mr. Parmar said. Ms. Dhoumo said that she had heard of people trying to resell them, but were not allowed to.

Not that I thought of it, she added. But I thought, damn, this is like a really expensive-worthy ticket. Its like the golden ticket to the candy factory in Willy Wonka.

I got texts from my friends saying, Oh my God,' and Im so jealous, and Are you selling your tickets? Ms. Mason said. I was like, No. Im graduating from college. I want my mother there.

Students receive only two tickets, and the university is trying to enforce its prohibition on selling seats to the event however it can, even by threatening to withhold diplomas from rule breakers. It is also reminding the public that the talk Ms. Swift will be giving is traditionally a five to 10 minute affair, and delivered on behalf of all the honorees. (Susan Hockfield, the president of M.I.T., and Felix V. Mtos Rodriguez, the chancellor of CUNY, will also receive honorary doctorates.)

Folks should know that Ms. Swift, whom we are very honored to have as one of our honorary degree recipients this year, will be speaking, not giving a performance, Mr. Beckman wrote. Of course, her fans are very avid, so Im not sure even that awareness will curb their ardor.

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According to Chair of Psychology Nancy Darling, the Data Sciences concentration emerged from meetings with other chairs from departments in the quantitative, natural, and social sciences.

All of us have really strong interest in data, but in really different ways, Darling said. Psychologists collect and play with data, and were really good at stats and things, but computer science is playing with different types of data.

Darling hopes the program will appeal to a range of students from a variety of backgrounds.

Data science is incredibly broad, so it should fit psychologists who are really good at building datasets and computer science models, and people who are doing artificial intelligence all of those are data science, she said.

Darling also emphasized the importance of experiential learning for students as they prepare to join the workforce and make decisions about what they want to do after college.

You dont know what youre interested in until you do it, she said.

The concentration requirements include taking five related courses that may come from a variety of departments such as Biology, Psychology, Computer Science, or Environmental Studies.

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Yun Fatt Yap and Ziming Yap have more in common than a last name and an interest in computers.

The elder Yap, a 1987 graduate in electrical engineering at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and his son, who studied computer science at UL, will share an alma mater Friday morning. Thats when the son will formally graduate with the Ray P. Authement College of Sciences at 9 a.m. at the Cajundome.

The father returned to his native Malaysia after graduation and eventually opened his own company, Advelsoft, which he has operated for more than 30 years. His son, however, will remain in Lafayette and work here after graduation at least for now.

Yun Fatt Yap said he chose to travel to Lafayette 10,000 miles from home for his higher education because in the 1980s there were few programs in Malaysia that would accommodate his interest in both engineering and computers. His course was about 50% engineering, 50% computer science.

He had been accepted at UL Lafayette, then the University of Southwestern Louisiana, and North Dakota, but opted for UL, which was more affordable for his middle-class familys budget.

But when his son was graduating from high school, there were more choices for college in his native country. The father said he did not push his son to study either in Malaysia or the United States, leaving the decision to him. UL was not only a good school, the dad said, but because he had also graduated UL, his son qualified as a legacy student, which included some scholarship money.

Ziming Yap said his initial choice for a course of study was mechanical engineering. But when he arrived in Lafayette four years ago, he saw how popular the computer science program was at UL Lafayette, and decided to enroll there.

Yun Fatt Yap said he had to make preparations for taking classes in Lafayette; English was not his native language so special study was in order. His son, however, had a better command of English when he applied to study in Louisiana.

When Yun Fatt Yap applied to school here, he knew little about the United States or Louisiana. There was no internet; he was not fully aware of what to expect. However, he found Cajun food to his liking and said local people were welcoming to him.

UL also attracted many international students, including about 600 from Asia, most of whom studied engineering and computer science. Petroleum engineering was a popular program. After completing his bachelors degree, he took a job with Seagate, an American company, in Singapore.

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Ziming Yap had an easier time in adjusting to Louisiana, although there were nonetheless some surprises. His father was a proud UL graduate and had kept up with his alma mater. There is a Ragin Cajun alumni group of some 200 people it mostly connects online in Malaysia. They stay in touch through Facebook and they meet at least once a year.

Yun Fatt Yap had not returned to Lafayette in 35 years, since his own graduation, before returning this week to celebrate his sons graduation. The campus was plenty recognizable he visited Madison Hall, where he used to attend classes, Cypress Lake and other familiar places although many buildings had been renovated. There were also some new buildings on campus he marveled at the new Student Union but he said the campus has retained its identity.

Im impressed with that, he said.

Father and son will enjoy graduation and do some traveling New Orleans and Houston in addition to their time in Lafayette. Before they leave, he said, hell enjoy his time in Lafayette.

And, he added, he needed to run by the bookstore to buy some T-shirts.

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