The 4th Regional Celebration of Women in Computing in the Upper MidWest (MinneWIC) was held on February 17-18, 2017 on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis. The program on Friday afternoon featured many poster presentations from students, both undergraduate and graduate, followed by a buffet dinner. After dinner, the keynote academic speaker, Andrea Danyluk, […]
By Shar Steed, CRA communications specialist Chandra Krintz, a professor at University of California Santa Barbara, took an interest in computers at a young age. When she was eight years old, her dad who was a principal at a local middle school, brought the school’s only computer – a Commodore 64 – to their home […]
By: Samantha McDonald, UMBC, CREU Team 2015-16 Team leader: Amy Hurst CREU Team: Niara Comrie, Braxtin Dubin, Samantha McDonald CREU Project Title: Applications of 3D Printing and 3D Design Software in the Design of Assistive Technology Senior year I participated in the Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU) to research the applications of 3D printing in […]
Originally Posted on SigChi.org SIGCHI is sponsoring the CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop for a 3rd time in 2017. Joining the ACM, other SIGs and sponsors we will support a diverse set of graduate students to attend the CRA-W’s Grad Cohort 2017 in Washington, DC. CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop 2017 Women and minorities are severely underrepresented […]
Each year in co-sponsorship with Applied Computer Security Associates (ACSA) and the Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE), CRA-W/ACSA presents the Scholarship for Women Studying Information Security (SWSIS) to 10-15 women in their undergraduate or Master’s studies. This year a SWSIS 2016 recipient shared her experience in the Information Security field and what it means to receive this scholarship. […]
Originally Posted on CSUN Today By: Alex Crooks The number of women working in the technology industry is far below the national average in other fields. While women held 57 percent of professional occupations in the United States workforce in 2015, they held only 25 percent of the occupations in professional computing, according to the National […]
By Shar Steed, CRA Communications Specialist Originally posted on the CRA Bulletin Bushra Anjum is a self-described “adventure seeker” in addition to her day job in computing. “I’m into extreme sports–I like jumping out of planes or off of cliffs. I am an adventure seeker, at the bottom of my heart. So anything that sounds […]
Originally Posted on News@Northeastern May 17, 2016 by Greg St. Martin Carla Brodley ardently believes every college student should give computer science a try—whether that means diving in with a major or dipping in by taking an elective. “It’s a basic literacy” in our digital age, she says. Brodley is the dean of the College of […]
By Melissa Borts, CRA Program Associate As CRA-W celebrates Women’s History Month, we decided to highlight a CRA-W board member who is a leader in the field of compilers and computer architecture – Kathryn McKinley. As both an academic (University of Texas at Austin) and industry employee (Microsoft), Kathryn has had the opportunity to broaden […]
Originally posted on GeekWire When Elizabeth Walkup was a graduate student at the University of Washington in the early 1990s, she sometimes attended women’s lunches with faculty. She recalls one such event where a female faculty member asked about her career plans once she finished her Ph.D. in computer science. “My plans depend a lot […]
