News-Gazette(Sept. 21) -- Profile of Marrissa Hellesen, a 25-year-old computer science student at Illinois, who “is a teaching assistant and has been involved in organizing hackathons.” Hellesen “recently wrapped up an internship at Groupon in Chicago where, to her surprise, she found herself among more women than men on her project team.” The article reports that the University of Illinois has seen a significant uptick in the percentage of female undergraduate computer science students, noting that “women make up 24.6 percent” of the program’s incoming freshmen this year, “triple what it was two years ago.” Also: ASEE FirstBell (Sept. 23).