Nominations Open for 2025 CRA Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award

By Denys Poshyvanyk, CRA-E Board, College of William and Mary

The CRA Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award (URFMA) recognizes individual faculty members who have provided exceptional mentorship, undergraduate research experiences and, in parallel, guidance on admission and matriculation of these students to research-focused graduate programs in computing.

Eligible nominees are full-time faculty members at North American academic institutions. Faculty members include tenured and tenure-track faculty, instructors, and professors of the practice. Current members of CRA-E are not eligible to be nominated or to serve as the nominator. A nominee must be nominated by a faculty member or a researcher in the computing field. Nominations will be accepted until November 22, 2024, and award decisions will be announced in February 2025. To be considered, nominees must be full-time faculty members at a North American academic institution. 

Click here to view the 2024 award winners and here to view the FAQs.

This award is given annually, and multiple recipients may be chosen. The selection committee will give appropriate consideration to different types of schools and mentors at different stages of their careers. The awardees will receive travel support to attend the meeting at which they accept the award. 

To learn more about the award, please visit: https://cra.org/crae/awards/faculty-mentoring/. 

Questions and inquiries can be directed to: mentoring_awards@cra.org