Tag Archive: CRA-WP
Articles relevant to the CRA Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research (CRA-WP).
By Lauren Lashlee, Program Associate, CRA-WP Since 2019, CRA-WP has recognized an outstanding computer science researcher in honor of Clarence “Skip” Ellis, by awarding them with the CRA-WP Skip Ellis Early Career Award (SEECA). CRA-WP is pleased to announce Martez Mott (Microsoft Research) as the recipient of the 2024 Skip Ellis Early Career Award for […]
By Lauren Lashlee, Program Associate, CRA-WP Since 2004, CRA-WP has recognized an outstanding computer science researcher in honor of Anita Borg, by awarding them with the CRA-WP Anita Borg Early Career Award (BECA). CRA-WP is pleased to announce Yakun Sophia Shao (University of California, Berkeley) as the recipient of the 2024 Anita Borg Early Career […]
By Eniola Idowu, Research Associate, CERP The CRA-WP’s Grad Cohort for Women (GCW) and Grad Cohort for IDEALS (GC-IDEALS) workshops have significantly influenced the career trajectories of their participants. CERP summarized the career advancement of past GCW and GC-IDEALS attendees who have successfully earned their Master’s or Doctoral degrees using Data Buddies Surveys data (2018-2023), […]
By Lauren Lashlee and Richard Elam, CRA-WP Grad Cohort for IDEALS and Grad Cohort for Women were co-located for the first time this year and took place at the Hilton Minneapolis from April 11 – 13, 2024. In total, the CRA-Widening Participation committee welcomed more than 350 attendees, participants, and speakers to this year’s combined […]
By Lamia Youseff, Ph.D. with the help of Claude 3 Sonnet Since the launch of ChatGPT, there has been immense public interest in how AI may disrupt industries, replace some human workers and even create new jobs. Like any transformative technology, the recent rise of large language models (LLMs) and generative AI has sparked both […]
By Margaret Martonosi (Princeton University), Jill Denner (NSF), and Jeff Forbes (NSF) In 2022, 100,699 students in the U.S. completed bachelor’s degrees in computer science, computer engineering and information science at a public or not-for-profit institution. Eighty nine percent of these students were U.S. citizens or permanent residents according to the National Center for Education […]
by Philip Guo, Associate Professor of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego Everyone who attends college learns a formal curriculum by taking classes, but there is also a hidden curriculum just beneath the surface of their college experience. This hidden curriculum consists of the “unspoken lessons, norms, values, and perspectives that impact learning and academic performance. […]
By Lauren Lashlee, Program Associate, CRA-WP Nominations for the 2024 CRA-WP Early Career Awards are due by January 31, 2024 at 11:59PM ET. The two honorary awards under the Early Career Award umbrella are The Borg Early Career Award (BECA) and The Skip Ellis Early Career Award (SEECA). If you know of an eligible, outstanding […]
By Ming C. Lin, University of Maryland at College Park CRA-WP’s Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU) program is a research mentoring program that matches students with a faculty mentor for a summer research experience at the faculty mentor’s home institution. DREU interns have the opportunity to be directly involved in a research project and […]
By Helen V. Wright, Manager, CRA-I In November, CRA-Industry (CRA-I) had the honor of delivering a plenary talk at CRA-WP’s 2023 Early & Mid Career Mentoring Workshop in Chicago, IL. The speakers, CRA-I’s Co-Chair Vivek Sarkar (Georgia Tech) and Cynthia Bennett (Google), presented on “Establishing Partnerships with Industry at CRA-WP’s Career Mentoring” and sparked vibrant […]
By Matt Hazenbush, Director of Communications Over its nearly 30 years of existence, the Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU) program has helped introduce more than a thousand undergraduates from groups minoritized in tech to computing research by matching them with a faculty mentor for a paid summer research experience. DREU, which is a project […]
