Doctoral student Daniela Rosner has been named a recipient of the 2010 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship.
The scholarship is awarded annually by Google to exceptional female students in computer science, computer engineering, and related technical fields in memory of Dr. Anita Borg (1949–2003). Borg devoted her adult life to dismantling barriers that keep women and minorities from entering computing and technology fields; her combination of technical expertise and fearless vision continues to inspire and motivate countless women to become active participants and leaders in creating technology.
By offering the scholarship in Borg's memory, Google hopes to encourage women to excel in computing and technology and become active role models and leaders in the field.
Daniela Rosner is a second-year Ph.D. student in the School of Information. Her research focuses on the interplay between technology, handcraft, and the creative communities around them. By designing and studying new creative tools, she studies how information technologies impact the process of creative handwork. She also investigates how the digital augmentation of handcraft products affects people’s relationships to the products and producers of handwork.
Before coming to Berkeley, Rosner worked at museums, developing interactive tools for the creative exploration and presentation of data. She has a B.F.A in graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design, a master's in computer science from the University of Chicago, and a MIMS from the School of Information.
Rosner will receive a $10,000 award for the 2010–2011 academic year. She will also join the other scholarship recipients for the Google Scholars' Retreat, at the Googleplex in Mountain View in June, as well as the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in September 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Rosner is UC Berkeley's third Borg scholarship winner in the award's seven-year history, and the first from the School of Information.
