±Ø²©ÓéÀÖ,±È²©ÓéÀÖÍøÖ· ######### University welcomes Sara Simon from the New York Times presenting ¡°From An English Major to A Software Engineer,¡± at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 18, in Room 114 of the F.W. Olin Science Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Simon is a software engineer on the Interactive News Technologies team at the New York Times, where her work focuses on tools for research and news gathering. She¡¯s also dabbled in data reporting at the Times, lending a hand to stories that span homicide convictions to abortion restrictions to the Miss America pageant. Simon studied English at Wellesley ±Ø²©ÓéÀÖ,±È²©ÓéÀÖÍøÖ· before heading to the non-profit Turing School of Software and Design. She came to the Times from Vermont Public Radio, where she was a web developer.