The goal of the CRA Committee on the Status of Women in Computing research (CRA-W) is to take positive action to increase the number of women participating in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) research and education at all levels. For more information, read about CRA-W's background.

Past participants of CRA-W programs: We are updating participation information. If you want to update your contact information, please email it to crawdb@cra.org


Projects:

Community Building

Research Mentoring

Information Sharing


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CRA-W is a committee of the Computing Research Association and is partially supported by the National Science Foundation and EOT-PACI, a national education, outreach, and training program funded by the NSF National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure program. Google, The Henry Luce Foundation, Lucent Technologies, Microsoft, Usenix, GM Canada, NSERC, and the ACM SIG Board have also provided funding. (more...)

Announcements:

The 9th Annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) has opened its Call for Participation. The submission deadline is March 16, 2009. For more information, follow this link: http://www.gracehopper.org/2009/participate/call-for-participation/

The Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU) is a highly selective program that matches promising undergraduates with a faculty mentor for a summer research experience at the faculty member's home institution. Apply for the Summer 2009 DREU! Visit the DREU site for more information. Application deadline is February 15th, 2009.

Congratulations Chandra Krintz, Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and the 2008 recipient of the CRA-W Borg Early Career Award!

CRA-W announces its new poster!

CRA-W announces a NEW program to provide travel support for women in industry/government labs. Visit this page if you want to know more about the program!

Archived Announcements


Co-Chairs:

Carla Brodley
Tufts University
Kathleen Fisher
AT&T Labs Research

Members:

Nancy Amato
Texas A&M University
Cecilia R. Aragon
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Carla Brodley
Tufts University
Tracy Camp
Colorado School of Mines
Sheila Castañeda
Clarke College
Lori A. Clarke
University of Massachusetts
Joanne Cohoon
University of Virginia
Andrea Danyluk
Williams College
Dilma Da Silva
IBM Research
Carla Ellis
Duke University
Kathleen Fisher
AT&T Labs Research
Joan Francioni
Winona State University
Maria Gini
University of Minnesota
Susanne E. Hambrusch
Purdue University
Mary Jean Harrold
School of Computer Science, College of Computing.
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the College of Computing

Julia Hirschberg
Columbia University
Mary Jane Irwin
Penn State University
Susan Landau
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
Tessa Lau
IBM's Almaden Research Center
Margaret Martonosi
Princeton University
Renée J. Miller
University of Toronto
Joann Ordille
Avaya Labs
Lori Pollock
University of Delaware
Mary Lou Soffa
University of Virginia
Manuela Veloso
Carnegie Mellon University
Telle Whitney
Institute for Women in Technology



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