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Maria Santore will give her lecture on April 29, 2015. The Grace Hopper Lecture Series is intended to serve the dual purpose of recognizing successful women in engineering and of inspiring students to achieve at the highest level. Grace Hopper was a visionary who exhibited the type of pioneering spirit that is an inspiration to all engineers.