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:

CRA-W announces its new poster!

Undergraduates and faculty sponsors interested in working together on research should explore the Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates Program (CREU). The on-line application site is open!. Applications are due May 9, 2008

Apply to the Multidisciplinary Research Opportunities for Women (MRO-W) program which involves undergraduate students in collaborative, multidisciplinary research creating and using cyberinfrastructure. Application deadline: May 9, 2008.

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:

Lori A. Clarke
University of Massachusetts
Lori Pollock
University of Delaware

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
Joanne Cohoon
University of Virginia
Carla Ellis
Duke University
Faith Ellen
University of Toronto
Kathleen Fisher
AT&T Labs Research
Joan Francioni
Winona State University
Maria Gini
University of Minnesota
Susanne E. Hambrusch
Purdue University
Mary Jean Harrold
Georgia Institute of Technology
Jessica Hodgins
Carnegie Mellon 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
Mary Lou Soffa
University of Virginia
Telle Whitney
Institute for Women in Technology



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