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CRA Academic Careers Workshop

February 10 - 12, 2002
Arlington, Virginia (Washington, D.C. area)

Program and Slides

Sunday   |   Monday   |   Tuesday

 

Please note: all slides are in PDF format and will be posted as they are made available by the speakers.

You may also be interested in CRA-W's brochure for their highly successful series of Career Mentoring Workshops (PDF)

 

Sunday, February 10

3:00 - 7:00 pm
Registration

5:00 - 7:00 Welcome Reception

 

Monday, February 11
Academic Careers

8:00 am - 1:30 pm Registration

8:00 - 8:45 Breakfast

8:45 - 9:45 Planning Your Research Career [slides]
David Patterson (University of California, Berkeley)

9:45 - 10:45 Career Networking [slides]
Susan Eggers (University of Washington)

10:45 - 11:15 Break

11:15 - 12:15 Mentoring and Managing Students [slides]

Mary Lou Soffa (University of Pittsburgh)

12:15 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 2:30 Preparing a Tenure Dossier [slides]

Mary Jane Irwin (Pennsylvania State University)

2:30 - 3:30 Time Management and Family Life
Jan Cuny (University of Oregon) [slides]
Bobby Schnabel (University of Colorado at Boulder)

3:30 - 5:00 Reception with CRA Board and Computing Leadership Summit attendees

 

Tuesday, February 12
Overviews of Major Funding Agencies
Workshop on Writing Proposals

8:00 - 8:45 am Breakfast

8:45 - 9:15 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency: an Agency Overview
Doug Schmidt (DARPA)

9:15 - 9:45 Office of Naval Research: an Agency Overview [slides]
Andre van Tilborg (ONR)

9:45 - 10:15 Break

10:15 - 10:45 National Science Foundation, Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering: an Agency Overview
Rick Adrion (NSF/CISE; University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

10:45 - 12:15 Workshop on Writing Grant Proposals [slides]
Caroline Wardle (NSF)

You may also be interested in Dr. Wardle's "A Guide to Writing Proposals for Federal Funding" (PDF)

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