A collaborative team including CSE PhD student Ashley Pang, Associate Professor Paea LePendu, Professor Mariam Salloum, and Professor Neftali Watkinson, along with Northeastern University's Professor Carla Brodley, has received the Best Paper Award at the 2026 ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TS).

Their award-winning paper, "Creating a Second Pathway to Computing Majors," details the birth and evolution of UCR's CS 9 series. The team will be officially presented with the award this February in St. Louis.