2016 CRA Career Mentoring Workshop
February 22-23, 2016
Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel
801 North Glebe Road, Arlington, Virginia 22203, United States
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Sandra Corbett
scorbett@cra.org
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The biennial Career Mentoring Workshop was offered by the Computing Research Association on February 22 and 23, 2016, at the Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel in Arlington, V.A.
The workshop consisted of a series of panels and was interspersed with opportunities to network with senior researchers and representatives from government agencies.
There was a reception with the CRA Board of Directors and an interactive meeting with various NSF CISE dignitaries and research-appropriate program directors.
Click here to read a participant’s perspective on the CRA Bulletin.
February 22, 2016 (Monday)
07:00 AM | Registration | Prefunction C |
07:30 AM | Breakfast | Fitzgerald Ballroom C |
08:15 AM | Welcome/Overview
| Fitzgerald Ballroom DE Sarita Adve, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
08:30 AM | Planning Your Research Career
| Fitzgerald Ballroom DE Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines |
09:15 AM | Career Networking
| Fitzgerald Ballroom DE Kathryn McKinley, Microsoft Research and University of Texas |
10:00 AM | AM Break | Prefunction DE |
10:30 AM | Teaching
| Fitzgerald Ballroom DE Dan Grossman, University of Washington |
11:15 AM | Mentoring and Managing Students
| Fitzgerald Ballroom DE Nancy Amato, Texas A&M |
12:00 PM | Lunch | Fitzgerald Ballrooom C |
01:00 PM | Preparing a Tenure Dossier
| Fitzgerald Ballroom DE Greg Hager, Johns Hopkins University |
01:45 PM | Time Management and Family Life
| Fitzgerald Ballroom DE Anne Condon, University of British Columbia |
02:30 PM | Advice from Early Career Faculty
| Fitzgerald Ballroom DE Martha Kim, Columbia University |
03:30 PM | Reception with CRA Board Members and Leadership Summit Participants | Prefunction |
February 23, 2016 (Tuesday)
07:00 AM | Breakfast | Fitzgerald Ballroom C |
08:00 AM | CRA Best Practices Memo: Incentivizing Quality and Impact: Evaluating Scholarship in Hiring, Tenure, and Promotion
| Fitzgerald Ballroom DE Fred Schneider, Cornell University |
08:30 AM | Research Funding Overview
| Fitzgerald Ballroom DE Farnam Jahanian, Carnegie Mellon University |
09:00 AM | Agency Overviews
| Fitzgerald Ballroom DE Suresh Jagannathan, DARPA |
10:00 AM | Break | Prefunction DE |
10:15 AM | How to Write a Good Proposal
| Fitzgerald Ballroom DE Susanne Hambrusch, Purdue University |
11:00 AM | Overview of NSF
| Fitzgerald Ballroom DE Jim Kurose, NSF |
11:15 AM | Writing a Proposal to NSF
| Fitzgerald Ballroom DE Jan Cuny, NSF |
12:00 PM | Lunch (on your own) and walk over to NSF |
01:30 PM | NSF Division Directors Presentations (four parallel sessions) | Room 375 at NSF |
01:45 PM | NSF Division Directors Presentations (four parallel sessions - same as above) | At NSF |
02:00 PM | Presentations by NSF Communications Team and Meetings with Program Directors | at NSF |
Grad Student Expectations Documents
Expectations List for Developer Liberation Front – Emerson Murphy-Hill, North Carolina State University Expectations for Group Members – Nancy Amato, Texas A&M University |