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The Computing Research Association’s Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research (CRA-WP) is committed to improving the working environment and increasing the success of all Computer Scientists and Engineers, without regard for gender, race, sexual orientation or socioeconomic background.

Expanding the Pipeline: ACM-W Programs Expand to Support Students and Professional Women in Computing

April 18, 2018/In: Diversity, Mentoring, CRA-WP /

Supporting, celebrating, and advocating for women in computing is the mission that lies at the heart of the activities of ACM-W. Our longstanding projects of scholarships, celebrations, and student chapters provide opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to increase their technical knowledge while networking and building community. Recently we have begun to expand our activity to include projects that support populations of women in computing beyond students. This article provides an overview of all of our projects, old and new.

Expanding the Pipeline: CAHSI Broadens Hispanics’ Participation in Computing

March 27, 2018/In: Featured Announcements, Research, Diversity, CRA-WP /

The Computing Alliance for Hispanic-Serving Institutions (CAHSI) is a consortium of Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs) committed to consolidating the strengths, resources, and efforts of public, private, federal, state, and local organizations that share the core value of increasing the number of Hispanics who pursue and complete baccalaureate and advanced degrees in computing areas. CAHSI plays a critical role in evaluating, documenting, and disseminating effective practices that support students in computing disciplines at the critical junctures in the academic pipeline.

CRA Welcomes Daniela Cárdenas

February 23, 2018/In: CRA, Featured Announcements, People, CRA-WP /

CRA has recently hired Daniela Cárdenas as a program assistant. In her new role, Daniela supports CRA and CRA-W program activities with administrative and logistical matters such as planning meetings, workshops, outreach activities, and committee support.

Nominations Open for 2018 Borg Early Career Award

January 8, 2018/In: Featured Announcements, Diversity, Awards, For Researchers, CRA-WP /

CRA-Women invites nominations for the Borg Early Career Award (BECA). The award honors the late Anita Borg, who was an early member of CRA-W and is inspired by her commitment to increasing the participation of women in computing research.

Expanding the Pipeline: Key Learnings on Retaining Underrepresented Minorities and Students with Disabilities in Computer Science

December 4, 2017/In: Diversity, For Students, CRA-WP /

Retention and graduation of underrepresented minorities and students with disabilities is critical to creating a strong pipeline of employees for both industry and academia. In early 2017, the Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in IT (CMD-IT) announced the call for nominations for the first annual CMD-IT University Award for Retention of Minorities and Students with Disabilities in Computer Science. The University Award was created to recognize a U.S. academic institution that has demonstrated a commitment and shown results for the retention of students from underrepresented groups in undergraduate computer science programs over the last five years.

Expanding the Pipeline: Toward Gender Parity in CS @ ILLINOIS

November 29, 2017/In: Diversity, CRA-WP /

The CS undergraduate program at the University of Illinois is among the largest in the nation. It has grown by 250 percent over the last decade to nearly 1,800 undergraduates—and it is still growing. In the last four years, the percentage of women in our CS programs rose from 10 percent to more than 25 percent. And our freshmen class in the College of Engineering rose from 11 percent women in 2012 to about 45 percent in 2016.

CRA Announcements

November 22, 2017/In: Featured Announcements, For Students, Awards, For Researchers, Career Mentoring Workshop, CRA-WP, Opportunities /

Check out opportunities to get involved with CRA!

Statement on Diversity at MICRO-50

October 18, 2017/In: Featured Announcements, Diversity, For Researchers, CRA Board of Directors, CRA-WP /

Former CRA Board Member Margaret Martonosi organized a statement on diversity at the MICRO-50 conference.

Gender Diversity Article in Computer Architecture Today

October 11, 2017/In: Featured Announcements, People, Diversity, CERP, For Researchers, CRA-WP /

Recently, CRA board member Kim Hazelwood (Facebook) and Natalie Enright Jerger (University of Toronto) published an article in Computer Architecture Today that analyzed gender diversity in the sub-discipline. CRA’s Jane Stout provides her commentary.

Applications Open for 2018 CRA-W Grad Cohort for Women

October 9, 2017/In: Featured Announcements, Diversity, For Students, Mentoring, CRA-WP /

Applications are open for the upcoming CRA-Women Graduate Student Cohort for Women which will be held April 13-14, 2018 in San Francisco, CA. CRA-W Grad Cohort for Women is a two-day workshop for female students in their first, second, or third year of graduate school in computing fields.

Expanding the Pipeline – WEPAN’S 2017 Change Leader Forum: Creating the Mindset for Action

September 17, 2017/In: Diversity, For Researchers, CRA-WP /

The Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN) held the 2017 Change Leader Forum in Westminster, Colorado from June 12 – 14, 2017. The Forum provided attendees an unparalleled opportunity to engage with diversity and inclusion advocates, and learn research based best-practices related to gender equity and inclusion in engineering. Nearly 200 attendees representing a variety of institutions and roles participated in the Forum, including university leaders, corporate partners, engineering faculty, K-12 teachers, and academic diversity officers.

2018 Underrepresented Minorities (URM) Grad Cohort Workshop

CRA Launches New URMD Grad Cohort Workshop – Apply Today!

August 15, 2017/In: CRA, Featured Announcements, Diversity, For Students, Mentoring, CRA-WP /

The Computing Research Association is pleased to announce a new iteration of the Graduate Cohort Workshop designed specifically for underrepresented minorities in computing and persons with disabilities. Applications are now open for the inaugural CRA URM Graduate Cohort Workshop, which will be held March 16-17, 2018 in San Diego, CA.

CRA Bids Farewell to Melissa Borts

August 14, 2017/In: People, CRA-WP /

After serving the CRA-W community as a Program Associate for two and a half years, Melissa Borts has left CRA to return to school. Melissa is returning to her alma mater, the University of Maryland, to pursue her MBA.

Expanding the Pipeline: Beyond Graduate Admissions – Strategies for Diversifying the Computer Science Workforce

May 30, 2017/In: Diversity, CRA-WP /

With graduate enrollment increasing for women in computer and information sciences, the entry point for the field’s educational pipeline is more robust than ever. Yet, it appears that the challenge remains to increase retention and completion of degrees. In order to expand the pipeline, our efforts must focus on both recruitment of potential talents and support throughout graduate studies that leads to desired career outcomes.

Expanding the Pipeline: Broadening Participation in Computing Fields by Preparing More Professionals with Disabilities

May 16, 2017/In: Featured Announcements, Diversity, For Students, CRA-WP /

Most broadening participation efforts have focused on women and underrepresented minorities. However, for more than 10 years, AccessComputing has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to increase the successful participation of students with disabilities in academic programs and careers. AccessComputing addresses underrepresentation by providing multiple activities for students with disabilities.

CRA Welcomes Claire Brady

April 20, 2017/In: CRA, People, CRA-WP /

CRA has recently hired Claire Brady as a program manager. In her new role, she is responsible for planning CRA’s Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) program events and providing support to initiatives that enrich the community’s awareness of CRA, its committees, mission, and services.

New CRA Board Member: Jaime Teevan

April 17, 2017/In: Featured Announcements, CRA Board of Directors, CRA-WP /

Jaime Teevan will replace Margaret Martonosi on the CRA Board on July 1.

Profiles in Computing: Yerika Jimenez

March 28, 2017/In: Featured Announcements, Diversity, For Students, CRA-WP, Education, Profiles in Computing /

As a little girl growing up in the Dominican Republic, Yerika Jimenez, currently a Ph.D. student in computing at the University of Florida, noticed she had a knack for fixing things – cell phones, TVs, radios. Everyone in her community would bring her broken items, and she would return them repaired. A few years later, when Jimenez was nine years old, her family settled in New Jersey, and her fascination with technology continued.

Research Highlight: CRA Board Member Susanne Hambrusch

March 23, 2017/In: Diversity, CRA Board of Directors, CRA-WP, Board Member Profiles /

The main focus of my recent research has been computer science education and the role computer science can play in defining and advancing its own education research. Learning computational principles and learning to code is hard, and teaching these subjects is even harder. For most computer science topics, we know very little about how different learners’ best learn; how to effectively teach the material to audiences with different abilities, backgrounds, and goals; and how to reliably assess learning.

2017 Board Election Results

March 8, 2017/In: Featured Announcements, CRA Board of Directors, CRA-WP /

CRA members have elected two new members to its board of directors: Carla Brodley and Kim Hazelwood. Current board members Nancy Amato, Susan Davidson, Dan Grossman, Brent Hailpern, Susanne Hambrusch, Barbara Ryder and Ellen Zegura were re-elected to the CRA board. Also beginning July 1, Brian Noble will be the USENIX representative to the CRA board replacing Margo Seltzer. Retiring from the board as of June 30, 2017 are David Culler, Mary Czerwinski and Seltzer. CRA thanks them all for contributions during their service on the board.

Profiles in Computing: Chandra Krintz

January 24, 2017/In: Featured Announcements, Diversity, CRA-WP, Profiles in Computing /

Krintz believes it is important in computing research to push technology forward by including people with diverse perspectives and ideas. To do that, she supports increasing underrepresented minority participation in computing. “I think it benefits both society and technology in general. Personally, it’s just so inspiring to see young people have new ideas, get excited, and want to go out and change the world.”

Nominations Open for Borg Early Career Award

January 3, 2017/In: Featured Announcements, Diversity, Awards, For Researchers, CRA-WP /

CRA-Women invites nominations for the Borg Early Career Award (BECA). he award honors the late Anita Borg, who was an early member of CRA-W and is inspired by her commitment to increasing the participation of women in computing research.

Profiles in Computing: Tanya Amert

December 15, 2016/In: Diversity, For Students, CRA-WP, Profiles in Computing /

Tanya Amert, a computer science Ph.D. student at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, found herself drawn to computer science because she enjoyed figuring out how things work. At 13 years old, she was a big fan of the Neopets website and online community. Amert noticed some users had customized homepages, and her interest grew even more. Despite not knowing any HTML at the time, she learned how to look at the source code and figured out how to change the color of the scroll bar within the CSS. “I discovered that specific lines of HTML made that happen. And I thought that was mind boggling and awesome.”

Get Involved with CRA-Women Activities

December 9, 2016/In: Diversity, CRA-WP /

The mission of the CRA Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) is to increase the success and participation of women in computing research and education at all levels. There are several ways you can get involved by mentoring students, submitting proposals and sharing these opportunities with your colleagues and students.

Ayanna Howard: 2016 A. Nico Habermann Award Winner

November 30, 2016/In: Featured Announcements, Diversity, Awards, A. Nico Habermann, CRA-WP /

In February, Ayanna Howard from Georgia Institute of Technology received the 2016 A. Nico Habermann Award for her sustained commitment to increasing diversity in computing. Howard is currently a CRA-W board member, and at Georgia Tech, she has provided research opportunities to dozens of undergraduates – more than 75% of whom are underrepresented minorities or women, and a majority of these students have gone on to graduate school. Nominations for the 2017 A. Nico Habermann Award are due on Friday, December 9.

Profiles in Computing: Morgan Carroll

November 15, 2016/In: For Students, CRA-WP, Profiles in Computing /

Morgan Carroll, a senior studying computer science at University of Texas at Tyler, fondly remembers her grandfather buying her a HP Pavilion with Windows 98 when she was eight years old. “From then on I just loved computers. In high school, I figured out that I was good at math. So when I went off to college, I took my love of computers and math and decided to try computer science.”

Carroll focuses on general programming and enjoys figuring out how to accomplish project objectives. Last year, one of her professor’s suggested she participate in a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), so she searched for one on the National Science Foundation REU opportunities webpage. She was particularly excited about a research project at the University of Alabama. The project was supported by CRA-Women’s Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU) program, which matches students with a faculty mentor for a summer research experience at the faculty mentor’s home institution.

University at Buffalo Speaker Series Highlights Women in Computing

November 4, 2016/In: Diversity, CRA Board of Directors, CRA-WP /

The University at Buffalo (UB) Department of Computer Science and Engineering is celebrating its 50th anniversary this academic year. It has chosen this occasion to honor successful women in computing with a year-long speaker series. The Distinguished Speaker Series highlights several CRA board members.

Profiles in Computing: Rita Wouhaybi

October 27, 2016/In: Featured Announcements, CRA-WP, Profiles in Computing /

The 2016 Graduate Cohort Workshop (Grad Cohort) brought together more than 30 accomplished speakers and 550 female graduate students in computing. Rita H. Wouhaybi who is a research scientist with Intel Labs’ Systems and Software Research at Intel Corporation, was one of the speakers who shared her unique perspective with the attendees.

Graduate Student Opportunity: Applications Open for Grad Cohort 2017

October 6, 2016/In: For Students, CRA-WP /

The upcoming CRA-Women Graduate Student Cohort (Grad Cohort) will be held April 7-8, 2017 in Washington, D.C. Grad Cohort is a two-day workshop for female students in their first, second, or third year of graduate school in computing fields. The application closes November 30.

Grad Cohort is generously funded by sponsors from industry, academia, the National Science Foundation, and the computing community. The workshop aims to increase the ranks of senior women in computing-related studies and research by building and mentoring nationwide communities of women through their graduate studies.

Profiles in Computing: Caroline Trippel

September 26, 2016/In: Featured Announcements, Diversity, For Students, CRA-WP, Profiles in Computing /

From an early age, current Ph.D. student and 2016 Graduate Cohort Workshop (Grad Cohort) attendee Caroline Trippel had a positive image of women in computing. Her mother earned an undergraduate degree in math, a Master’s degree in computer science, and currently works as an embedded systems software engineer.