March 2025
Researchers from the Center for Broadening Participation in Computing and the Morehouse Center for Excellence in Education have collaborated to publish a manuscript to the Journal of Student Financial Aid entitled, "A Qualitative Exploration of The Robert Smith Gift at Morehouse College". 

March 2025
The IEEE Computer Society Chair of the Conferences Advisory Committee has approved the request for Computer Society Technical Co-Sponsorship for BICE 2025 in Miami, Florida. With that in mind, the call for papers is officially open. Visit the symposium's website for more info: https://www.bicesymposium.org/

January 2025
CBPC Executive Director and Hortenius I. Chenault Endowed Professor of Computer Science, Dr. Kinnis Gosha, has been promoted to Chair of the Morehouse College Department of Computer Science.  The 3.5 year term starts on January 1, 2025. 

November 2024
CBPC Researchers Kaylah Mackroy, Whitney Nelson, and Kinnis Gosha's submission on "Leveraging Various Social Media Platforms to Mentor Black Computing Students on Graduate School Opportunities" has been accepted to the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE)  Technical Symposium 2025. The conference will be held in Pittsburgh, PA, in February 2025. 

November 2024
CBPC research scientist Chris Thomas recently completed a certificate program at the University of Colorado-Bolder entitled "Introduction to High-Performance and Parallel Computing." This certification strengthens the CBPC's capacity to contribute to its NSF award, "Construction for the Leadership Class Computing Facility."

October 2024
CBPC research scientist, Chris Thomas, met with other faculty grant recipients from the Accelerating Foundation Models Research (AFMR) initiative for Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) to Microsoft headquarters in Redmond. This AFMR-MSI initiative supports Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Hispanic-Serving Institutions by providing access to cutting-edge foundation models hosted on Microsoft Azure through Microsoft AI services. 

October 2024
Boeing and the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund awarded the CBPC a new award to support the Conversion 2 Computing (C2C) Program. C2C will help transfer students from other institutions, undeclared majors who later chose CS or SWE, and students who transferred from different majors at Morehouse College. 

September 2024
Members of the CBPC attended the 2024 Richard Tapia Celebration of Computing in San Diego, CA. The team hosted two networking events to bring together Black students and faculty from the conference. Dr. Gosha co-led a panel entitled "Integrating Diversity, Social Justice, and Intersectionality in Program Evaluation to Broaden Participation in Computing (BPC): Insights from BPC Alliance Representatives." Dr. Renee Jordan co-led a workshop entitled "Effective Programs for Increasing Diversity in Computing: Learning and Engaging." 

September 2024
The CBPC has received a new grant from the Computing Research Association's UR2PhD program to support the IAAMCS Summer Bridge Experience (SBX). This award will enable the center to increase the number of African American computer science majors nationwide who start their collegiate programs with rigorous three-week Python coding experience. Read more >>

September 2024
The National Science Foundation has announced the successful funding of a renewal award to the CBPC entitled, "BPC-AE: Institute for African Americans in Computing Sciences (IAAMCS) National Network." The award will sustain the BPC Alliance until December 2029. More info >>

August 2024
Dr. Ashley Scruse has returned to the Atlanta University Center to take on a position as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Morehouse Center for Broadening Participation in Computing. She is a recent graduate of the University of Georgia in Bioinformatics. Her PhD topic is "Counting Subnetworks Under Gene Duplication in Genetic Regulatory Networks." 

June 2024
The RISE UP Male Technology Mentorship Program has started with the theme of "Expeditions in Computing." The program is available to middle and high school boys of color from the DeKalb County area.  Participating students will choose between two of five courses, including Conversational AI, Game Development, Web Programming, Salesforce Associate, and Sphero Robotics. The program is sponsored by District 4 Commissioner Steve Bradshaw, the DeKalb County Government Office of Human Services, Boeing, the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the AUC Data Science Initiative.

June 2024
Sage, a global finance, human resources and payroll software company, has made the decision to continue its support of the Morehouse Center for Broadening Participation in Computing with two new gifts. The first gift, by the Sage Foundation, will support the instruction of a new elective course on Technology Micropreneurship. The course, co-taught by Sage professionals, will be offered in the Fall 2024 semester. Students enrolled in the course with a demonstrated financial need will have the option to receive a scholarship for the amount of $3,000. The second gift is for the establishment of the Sage Visiting Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence. 

April 2024
The CBPC, led by Rice University’s OpenStax awarded $90M to lead first-of-its-kind National Science Foundation research hub for transformational learning and education research. SafeInsights will bring together researchers, educational institutions, and digital learning platforms to enable timely, impactful studies designed to overcome the challenges faced in education. Read More >>

Any undergraduate student currently enrolled at any of the following institutions is eligible to cross-register in any of our featured online and hybrid Spring 2024 courses through the ARCHE.
Qualifying institutions include Agnes Scott College, Brenau University, Clark Atlanta University, Clayton State University, Emory University, Georgia Gwinnett College, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia State University, Kennesaw State University, Mercer University, Morehouse College, Oglethorpe University, Spelman College, University of Georgia, and the University of West Georgia. Click here to see which classes will be available for the Spring 2024 semester.

October 2023
CBPC Executive Director, Dr. Kinnis Gosha, has formally accepted an invitation from the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate at the National Science Foundation (NSF) to join the CISE Advisory Committee. As a member of the committee, Dr. Gosha will join other renowned computer science leaders in advising the nation in strategic planning and the policy formulation process. Currently, the annual budget award for the CISE Directorate exceeds 1.15 billion dollars.  

September 2023
The Morehouse Center for Broadening Participation in Computing has received funding from Microsoft in collaboration with the Georgia Tech Advanced Manufacturing Pilot Facility on a new course to be taught in the Spring 2024 semester. The course will fuse art, artificial intelligence, and advanced manufacturing. Students in the ARCHE course-sharing consortium are available to take the course. Click here to learn more about the course offering. 

May 2023
The CBPC serves as the co-host for the 2023 Computing Research Association's Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Plans Workshop. Over 80 computing faculty from across the country came to Atlanta to learn how to strengthen their department's BPC plan and engage with Minority Serving Institutions. Several attendees even stayed after the workshop to tour the campus of Morehouse College. Thanks to NSF CISE for funding this initiative.