CRA-W Canadian
Distributed Mentor Project
The Canadian Distributed Mentor Project, is a program to encourage undergraduate women in computer science and computer engineering to go to graduate school. It matches female students who have finished their second or third year of undergraduate studies with female professors for a summer of research and mentoring. It awards $3,500 to each student to supplement an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) in Universities, which provides $4,500 (+ travel). Thus, each student will receive a total of $8,000 (+ travel) for 16 weeks of work. In addition, $1000 is awarded to each mentor, to offset research and mentoring costs. Ten students will be funded for summer 2009. Priority will be given to students from universities where there are no female professors who can serve as their mentors. The application deadline for both students and mentors is Monday, January 19, 2009. Student applicants must be female, Canadian citizens or permanent residents, registered (at the time of application) as a full-time student in a bachelor's degree program in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field (for example, mathematics or electrical engineering), and considering graduate studies in computer science or computer engineering. Students must have obtained, over the previous years of study, a cumulative average of at least B and must have completed at least two years of their bachelor's degree by May 2008. Students must also be full time. A potential mentor must be an assistant, associate, or full professor of computer science or computer engineering at a Canadian university. She must hold an NSERC grant and have an active research program into which students may be integrated. The mentor's department must be willing to allocate support from the USRA program to the matched student. Student and Mentor applications are open! CRITERIA FOR SELECTION OF STUDENTS Applicants must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents, registered (at the time of application) as a full-time student in a bachelor's degree program in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field (for example, mathematics or electrical engineering) who are considering graduate studies in computer science or computer engineering. Students must have obtained, over the previous years of study, a cumulative average of at least B, completed all the course requirements of at least the first year of university study of their bachelor's degree, and be full time. First consideration will be given to women who have completed at least two years of their bachelor's degree by May 2008. To be eligible to apply for an award, you must:
The primary criteria for selection are:
CRITERIA FOR SELECTION OF MENTORS A potential mentor must be an assistant, associate, or full professor of computer science or computer engineering at a Canadian university. She must hold an NSERC grant and have an active research program into which students may be integrated. The primary criteria for selection are:
AWARDS FROM 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
The Canadian Distributed Mentor Project is sponsored by CRA-W (the Computing Research Association Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research) the JADE Project (the NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering for British Columbia and the Yukon). Funding is provided by General Motors Canada and NSERC. The Computing Research Association (CRA) is an association of more than 180 North American academic departments of computer science and computer engineering; laboratories and centers in industry, government, and academia engaging in basic computing research; and affiliated professional societies.
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